Category : Medium

Coinbase’s perspective on the recent Ethereum Classic (ETC) double spend incidents

By Don YuTakeawaysCoinbase was not targeted by any of the attack transactions and lost no fundsAt 10:57 PM PST 7/31/2020, Ethereum Classic (ETC) was 51% attacked resulting in ~800,000 ETC (~$5.8 million) of double spend transactions.At 8:15PM PST 8/5...

Securing an ERC-20 token for launch on Coinbase

How to pass the most trusted cryptocurrency platform’s security guidelines for ERC-20 tokensBy Nadir AkhtarTL;DR: The ERC-20 standard has become a popular way to create digital assets and assign protocol voting rights on the Ethereum blockchain. When...

Around the Block #6: Bitcoin’s dominance alongside Coinbase customer behavior, the coming DEX…

Around the Block #6: Bitcoin’s dominance alongside Coinbase customer behavior, the coming DEX revolution, and other recent crypto newsCoinbase Around the Block, sheds light on key issues in the crypto space. In this edition, Justin Mart analyzes Bitc...

Around the Block #5: Downstream Impacts of the Recent Market Crash on Lending, Stablecoins, and…

Around the Block #5: downstream impacts of the recent market crash on lending, stablecoins, and DeFiCoinbase Around the Block, sheds light on key issues in the crypto space. In this edition, Justin Mart analyzes three industries impacted by the recen...

Around the Block #3: bZx Attack Update, DeFi Vulnerabilities, and the State of Debit Cards in…

Around the Block #3: analysis on the bZx attack, DeFi vulnerabilities, the state of debit cards in crypto, and other crypto newsCoinbase Around the Block sheds light on key issues in the crypto space. In this edition, we analyze the bZx attack, uncov...

Generalized Economic Abstraction

By Kevin BritzAt Astro Wallet, which was recently acquired by Coinbase, we spent the better part of the last two years researching economic abstraction in various forms. We’d like to share our findings with the greater blockchain industry in the hope...

Crypto giveaway scams and how to spot them

By Thomas Hauer, Jr.Cryptocurrency giveaway scams have been a problem for those involved in the crypto-community since the last major bull run in late 2017. Whether you’re a seasoned investor or just beginning to get your feet wet in the crypto-space...

How MakerDAO doubled its users in a single weekend using Coinbase Earn

By Kenzan BooOn July 26, 2019, Coinbase Earn launched the Dai Advanced Task. In a few days, users created more CDPs (Collateralized Debt Positions) than ever existed. In the previous 11 months, about 9,000 CDPs were created on the blockchain with Mak...

A Beginner’s Guide to Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

By Sid Coelho-PrabhuCryptocurrency’s promise is to make money and payments universally accessible– to anyone, no matter where they are in the world.The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) or Open Finance movement takes that promise a step further. Imagine a...

Bringing DeFi to the World

DeFi, or decentralized finance, is an essential part of an open financial system. DeFi tools are censorship-resistant, unbiased, and available to anyone with a smartphone. That’s why for this winter’s hackathon, we focused on bringing DeFi to the wor...

Capture the Coin — Blockchain Category Solutions

Capture the Coin — Blockchain Category SolutionsBy Peter Kacherginsky, Mark Nesbitt, Joel Kenny, Don YuIn this post we continue our coverage of solutions for the Capture the Coin competition that we ran during Defcon 2019. We will focus on the five c...

Capture the Coin — Trivia Solutions

Capture the Coin — Trivia SolutionsBy Zassmin and Peter KacherginskyDuring Defcon 2019, we ran our first Blockchain Security competition — Capture the Coin. With Capture the Coin we focused on promoting blockchain security areas of cryptography, smar...

Intro to Smart Contracts

By Julia ChouThis post is a blog version of a workshop presented at the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration, the world’s largest gathering of women in technology. Coinbase is committed to building a future that promotes economic freedom and financial inclu...