Began rolling out support for $DOG trading in the main app to over 100 million users.

Faces pressure from Banking Lobby through Senators to prevent offering yield on stablecoins through the platform.

Integrated DEX functionality allowing direct token purchases through the platform.

Launched a jointly supported institutional-grade Solana validator with Sharps Technology (STSS) on January 12, 2026, with Coinbase operating the validator infrastructure.

Recorded net outflows of 82 trillion SHIB from Coinbase and other centralized exchanges by certain new wallets over a 60-day period ending around January 12, 2026, at prices around $0.0000085 per SHIB.

Acquired 8,797 BTC in a single hour on January 9, 2026.

Pays a 3.35% reward to users holding USDC on the exchange.

Received a large deposit from BlackRock of approximately 2,164-2,390 BTC (valued at $195-215 million) and 22,902-27,700 ETH (valued at $71-86 million) into Coinbase Prime.

Added RAY, ENERGY, ELSA, and FUN to the Coinbase Roadmap, with trading launch contingent on market-making support and technical infrastructure.

Ranks as the second-largest entity holding Bitcoin in 2026, according to Arkham Research.

Partnered with Stripe to integrate Coinbase Pay into Stripe's checkout for merchants and simplify cryptocurrency purchases using credit and debit cards.

Upgraded to FPGA technology to improve matching speed, enabling handling of millions of orders per second with millisecond-level latency.

Removes ETH-DAI, FLOW-USDT, and MANA-ETH order books from the exchange.

Added MEGA token to listing roadmap.

Listed Brevis (BREV) for spot trading with the BREV-USD trading pair going live on January 6, 2026.

Reached over $1 billion in USDC actively borrowed through crypto-backed loans on the platform.

Acquires Deribit for $4.3 billion in what is described as the largest crypto acquisition ever.

SerenAI integrates HackerNews API into the Coinbase x402 Ecosystem.

Announced stock trading and prediction markets on Coinbase in 2025.

Coinbase's global head of investment research warned that quantum computing advances pose a structural risk to Bitcoin's long-term security, with around one-third of BTC potentially vulnerable due to exposed public keys, focusing on signature security rather than mining risks.

Coinbase Premium Gap flipped positive, indicating strong spot demand from American buyers.

Reached $3,196 per ETH price on Coinbase as of January 4th, 2026 at 9:00pm ET.

Provided free credit monitoring to users, indicating a potential data breach or security incident requiring customer protection measures.

Received 57.5 BTC ($6M+) from the Samourai case via U.S. Marshals, which was sold on November 3, 2025 through Coinbase Prime.

Operates as a major operator involved in EigenLayer infrastructure alongside Binance and NTT.

Goldman Sachs upgraded Coinbase stock to 'BUY' with a $303 price target.

Launched a trading incentive program from January 5 to February 5, 2026, offering entries to win 1 BTC and a trip to Melbourne for an Aston Martin F1 experience, with one entry earned per trade (maximum 10 entries).

Speculation about a potential Base airdrop or season program tied to COIN stock performance.

Increased ATOM stake to control approximately 17.6% of voting power across 4 validators, pushing the bonded ratio above 59%.

Reduced trading fees through a fee cut promotion.

Reached 120 million monthly active users (MAUs) as of 2025, up from 2 million MAUs in 2015.

pauses local services in Argentina effective 2026-01-31, discontinuing USDC/Argentine peso trading pairs while maintaining crypto transfer and onchain send/receive functions

Head of legal role is held by someone associated with $DRB token.

Accumulated 2,736 BTC on January 4, 2026.

Staked ETH sell pressure has ended on the platform.

Bought 7,543 BTC in a coordinated purchase alongside other exchanges and institutions totaling approximately $3 billion worth of Bitcoin.

Experiences increased trading activity, with USELESS being one of the most actively traded meme coins on the platform over the past 24 hours with over $13M in volume.

Coinbase's D'Agostino expresses confidence that the CLARITY Act will pass soon, citing growing global momentum in crypto regulation as the driver.

accepts hashrate as collateral for lending or financing operations

Surpassed by Solana onchain spot volume in total trading volume during 2025, with Solana reaching $1.6 trillion while Coinbase ranked below Bybit and Bitget.

Experienced a 50 BTC market sell order that moved BTC price down over $1000 on its platform.

CEO announced 2026 priorities including expanding a global all-in-one exchange covering crypto, equities, and commodities with support for spot, futures, and options, scaling stablecoins and payments, bringing more users onchain through the Coinbase developer platform, Base chain, and Base App, and increasing investment in product quality and underlying automation.

Coinbase app ranked 457th among all apps and 32nd among finance apps on January 1, 2026.

Transferred 3,858 BTC ($344M) from Coinbase Institutional to an unknown wallet.

Personal data leak results in kidnapping incident.

Faryar Shirzad of Coinbase warned that U.S. limits on interest-bearing stablecoins could backfire compared to China's approach allowing interest on Digital Yuan accounts.

USDC conversions have been offline for approximately 36 hours as of December 31, 2025.

Featured FLOCK as one of the top three highest-returning assets in Coinbase's 2025 market performance review.

Launched Base app in 2025.

Acquired Uponly NFT in 2025.

Received $94 million USDC transferred from Trump meme token ($TRUMP) deployer address over the past 3 weeks, originating from single-sided liquidity sales on Meteora.

Listed LIGHTER (LIT) token for spot trading on LIGHTER-USD pair, pending liquidity conditions being met.

Deployed two AI agents to production saving 25+ hours per week, with four additional agents completed and the Enterprise AI Tiger Team reducing future agent build time from 12 weeks to under one week using LangSmith and LangGraph.

DEX perpetual futures volumes exceeded $1.2 trillion per month in 2025 according to Coinbase Institutional's market outlook report.

Sold 9,781 BTC on December 29th, 2025.

Integrated Morpho's lending network for its Earn product offering.

Filed for a spot Sui ETF with Coinbase Custody serving as custodian.

Coinbase Ventures invested in Billions Network, a multi-chain identity network supporting Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Base, and other chains, as part of a funding round that raised over $30M.

Added to the S&P 500 index in May 2025.

Received approximately $30M worth of AAVE tokens from ParaFi, representing 1% of AAVE's total supply.

CEO Brian Armstrong states that reopening the GENIUS Act is a "red line" and accuses banks of lobbying Congress to block competition from stablecoins and fintech platforms.

Named as a top three 2026 fintech pick by Clear Street.

An ex-customer service agent was arrested by Hyderabad Police in India for unspecified misconduct.

Received $12 million worth of Bitcoin from Trump Media via Coinbase Prime Custody service.

CEO Brian Armstrong participated in Goldman Sachs' Builders & Innovators summit, with a full session discussing Coinbase's founding, growth, crypto evolution, and regulatory clarity now available on YouTube.

Received deposits of 2,292 BTC ($199.8M) and 9,976 ETH ($29.23M) from BlackRock to Coinbase Prime on December 24, 2025.

Access blocked by Philippine ISPs after National Telecommunications Commission order citing Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas classification as unauthorized trading platform.

PLU-USD trading pair entered cancel-only mode on Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced on December 23rd, 2025, with limit orders and market orders suspended until trading resumes.

Acquired Deribit in 2025.

Reached $1 billion in crypto trading revenue in Q3 2025, representing 83% year-over-year growth.

Included SEI in its index product.

Delegated meme and culture leadership responsibilities on Base from Jesse Pollak to the team.

Acquired The Clearing, a company, expanding its platform capabilities.

Nominated for "Best In Tokenization" award at The Rollup Co awards ceremony scheduled for December 30, 2025.

Launched x402 V2 protocol with standardized payment formats supporting multi-chain operations across Ethereum L2s and Solana, standardized extension format for plug-ins, and wallet-based access with reusable sessions.

Took down a crypto impersonation scammer with help from ZachXBT

Listed Toncoin for the U.S. market in November 2025.

Announced that prediction markets are coming to the Coinbase app.

Chose Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the exclusive bridge for its Wrapped Assets.

Experienced negative BTC premium over the last 7 days ending December 21, 2025.

integrated into MyQuant v2 platform as an onramp solution for hedge fund strategy delivery

Supports self-custody account abstraction wallets using passkey technology.

Launched the x402 Foundation in partnership with Cloudflare to enable HTTP-based payment standard for AI agents and machine-to-machine transactions.

Added BREV token to the listing roadmap.

Brooklyn man indicted for allegedly stealing $16 million from users through phishing scheme.

Hosted the first token sale on its new ICO platform, with MON raising at a $2.5B fully diluted valuation.

Reached agreement with PNC Bank.

Secured CNN and CNBC as mainstream media partners.

Launched 24/7 equity perpetuals trading, available exclusively to non-US users.

Integrated Base with TRON via LayerZero, enabling TRX access on Base DEXs and expanding cross-chain interoperability.