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How Maker Dao 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...

Announcing the Coinbase USDC Bootstrap Fund

How Coinbase is contributing to the emerging DeFi ecosystem with USDCIn 2018, the Centre Consortium — which includes Coinbase and Circle — launched USDC, a stable, secure, and transparent stablecoin. Since then, it has become one of the world’s most...

Coinbase welcomes customers from six new European markets

Since launching in 2012, Coinbase has continually worked toward its mission of creating an open financial system for the world. Over the past six years, we’ve expanded our footprint from the U.S. to 33 countries across the globe, making it easier for...

Ethereum Classic on Coinbase Wallet

We’re happy to announce that Coinbase Wallet now supports Ethereum Classic (ETC).With this asset launch, Coinbase Wallet now supports Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), and all of the 100,000+ ERC20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. As part of...

A brand new look for Coinbase Wallet

We’re excited to present a fresh new look for the easiest and most trusted crypto wallet.We’ve been talking to you, our users, and compiled a list of the features and improvements you want the most.With this release, you can now view the value of you...

Wrapping up Devcon4

Last week, more than 3,000 blockchain engineers, thinkers and investors descended on the city of Prague for the 4th Annual Ethereum Developers Conference. The ethos of an open financial system was on full display as everyone came together to ideate o...

Coinbase Pro announces support for trading bitcoin, ethereum and other cryptocurrencies using…

Coinbase Pro announces support for trading bitcoin, ethereum and other cryptocurrencies using British Pounds (GBP)Following our announcement earlier this month that we would be introducing support for British pounds (GBP) to our UK-based customers, t...

Buy and sell immediately and higher daily limits

Increasing daily limits to $25,000 and enabling immediate tradingToday we’re announcing immediate trading and significantly higher default limits for Coinbase accounts. Starting today, we are rolling out the ability to trade cryptocurrency immediatel...

Ethereum Classic (ETC) is now launching on Coinbase Pro

Transfer ETC immediately to your exchange account, and start trading within the next few days.We announced final testing for Ethereum Classic (ETC) last Friday, with a goal of accepting ETC transfers for exchange users by Tuesday August 7th. Our test...

Ethereum Classic (ETC) is launching on Coinbase Pro

Transfer ETC immediately to your exchange account and place limit orders in advance of tradingWe announced final testing for Ethereum Classic (ETC) last Friday, with a goal of accepting ETC transfers for exchange users by Tuesday August 7th. Our test...

This Month in Crypto

This Month In Crypto: SCOTUS, Facebook, South Korea, and moreA curated selection of meaningful moments in June, for investors, institutions, policy-watchers — or just the crypto curiousSupreme Court acknowledges Bitcoin for the first timeIn a dissent...