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what's coinbase?

Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange platform that enables users to buy, sell, trade, and store digital assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others in a secure environment. Founded in 2012, it serves both retail and institutional clients, offering features such as a user-friendly mobile app, advanced trading tools, staking rewards, and integration with decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. The platform emphasizes regulatory compliance, security through cold storage, and educational resources to help users navigate the crypto space. Coinbase also supports fiat on-ramps, NFT marketplaces, and international expansion to make cryptocurrency accessible worldwide.

Snapshot

Coinbase recorded 27.7M Jan website visits, ranked #10 in social activity with a 12% gain.

3MIN ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

Sold 8,689 BTC worth approximately $1.2B in a three-hour period ending around 2026-02-28 09:09 UTC.

1H ago
PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Coinbase AgentKit, Google's A2A protocol, and Polymarket.

2H ago
OPINION SPECULATION

Warns that the CLARITY bill could limit tokenization and DeFi growth in US on-chain markets.

8H ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

Transferred 4,082 BTC ($269.41M) from Coinbase Prime to BlackRock on February 28, 2026, part of a 3-day accumulation totaling 9,615 BTC ($635M) by BlackRock.

11H ago
REGULATORY

Faces regulatory risk from OCC-proposed stablecoin rules that would ban yield and rewards, directly threatening USDC revenue streams.

MARKET ACTIVITY

REX Shares launched a leveraged ETF tied to Coinbase stock on CBOE.

15H ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Experienced renewed spot buying pressure on BTC, with BTC ETF net inflows reaching +$814M for the week.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Added TAO, ENA, and ETHFI to the Coinbase 50 Index (COIN50) in Q1 2026.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Accounts for 65% of U.S. crypto trading volume share.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Holds $425 billion in custody.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Reported Q4 revenue of $1.8 billion, down 5% quarter-over-quarter.

16H ago
TECH EVENT

Rolled out interface improvements on Coinbase Advanced web platform, including market filter selectors for Commodities, FX, and Indices, and an updated web footer with persistent watchlist and top market movers view.

18H ago
TECH EVENT

Will support the Sei network migration to EVM-only architecture from April 6-8, 2026.

19H ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed Robo Token (ROBO) for trading, enabling buying, selling, converting, sending, receiving, and storing on coinbase.com and the Coinbase app on 2026-02-27.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Entered limit-only mode for ROBO-USD on Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced, and halt mode for ROBO-PERP on Coinbase International Exchange and Coinbase Advanced on February 27, 2026; ROBO-USD trading pair enters full-trading mode on Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced.

21H ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Launched ROBO-PERP perpetual futures trading on 2026-02-27 on Coinbase International Exchange and Coinbase Advanced, supporting limit, market, stop, and stop limit orders.

23H ago
FINANCIAL EVENT

Secured a $30 million facility that enhances operational and financial flexibility.

1D ago
RISK ALERT

Employees were caught engaging in insider trading ahead of token listings.

TECH EVENT

Will enable stock transfer functionality from other platforms in the near future.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Participated in the Digital Asset Tax Fly-In on Capitol Hill alongside Blockchain Association and Solana Institute, with dozens of House Ways & Means and Crypto Caucus staff attending.

PARTNERSHIP

received investment from Coinbase Ventures as part of a $3.5 million seed funding round for 42space

2D ago
MARKET ACTIVITY

Enabled full-trading mode for GWEI-USD trading pair on Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced with limit, market, and stop orders available.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Suspends Prime Vault wallet support for 45 tokens (NOIA, DVI, PSP, BZRX, NATION, CBAT, EWTB, UMEE, DAD, RFOX, SQT, VR, LMR, CETH, GRID, DAO, SURE, UXP, BFC, YOUC, MFG, FXC, LUNR, PHA, SOFI, MIM, J, TITAN, ELON, BETA, OM, CREAM, MTA, CQT, DPX, UBT, LTX, DOGEGF, STAKE, PUSH, INXT, AGI, LST, ANTV1, CVP) on 2026-03-27 at approximately 2 PM ET.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Funded a 3% BTC reward program for deposits during Q4 2025 with an unnamed partner.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Suspended trading for MANTRA (OM) perpetual futures (OM-PERP) on Coinbase Advanced and Coinbase International Exchange on 2026-02-27 7:00 am UTC, with open positions settled automatically at a final settlement price of $0.06442 USDC.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Stock gained more than 5% in trading session on February 25, 2026.

OPINION SPECULATION

World Liberty Financial is siding with Coinbase against the White House's version of the market structure bill.

3D ago
VISIBILITY EVENT

Co-CEO of Coinbase Institutional speaks at Strategy World 2026 conference on February 25, 2026, at 1:45 PM PT.

PARTNERSHIP

Partners with Infinex to launch Red Packets feature on Base network for Lunar New Year celebration, involving USDC distribution.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Morpho, building $1.2B in crypto loans.

OPINION SPECULATION

Released a report analyzing Bitcoin options market gamma exposure, noting negative gamma in the $60,000-$70,000 region and positive gamma in the $85,000-$90,000 region, suggesting potential price movement patterns.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Coinbase Premium Index turned positive on February 26, 2026, after 40 consecutive days below zero.

MARKET ACTIVITY

USDC-SGD and USDC-CAD trading pairs enter limit-only mode on Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced, allowing limit orders but disabling market orders.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Enters limit-only mode for the USDC-AUD trading pair on Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced, allowing limit orders to be placed and canceled with potential matches, but prohibiting market orders.

MARKET ACTIVITY

GWEI-USD trading pair enters limit-only mode on Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced, allowing limit orders to be placed and canceled with possible matches, but prohibiting market order submissions.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated with Yahoo Finance to display "Trade [asset] on Coinbase" buttons on stock and crypto pages, enabling single-click trading for U.S. investors, with payment for activity generated through those links.

TECH EVENT

Integrated instant funding capability allowing users to fund stock purchases directly with USDC stablecoin.

PARTNERSHIP

Launched 24/5 tokenized stock and ETF trading, offering 8,000 stocks/ETFs, fractional shares from $1, and USD/USDC transactions, starting 2026-02-24. Integrated Yahoo Finance and added COIN stock.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Received deposits of 1,814 BTC (valued at $114.66M) and 24,472 ETH (valued at $44.57M) from BlackRock to Coinbase Prime, totaling approximately $159M in a single move.

REGULATORY

Received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national trust bank charter, with the application still pending.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Received deposits of 1,514 BTC (worth $95.69M) and 24,472 ETH (worth $44.57M) from BlackRock.

4D ago
WHALE ACTIVITY

Received a deposit of 12,000 ETH (~$22.24M) from whale address 0xB62 on February 24, 2026.

WHALE ACTIVITY

BlackRock withdrew 2,086 BTC (approximately $135M) and 8,459 ETH (approximately $15.84M) from Coinbase on 2026-02-23.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Processes approximately $5 billion in daily trading volume as of February 2026.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Listed ETHGas (GWEI) for spot trading with the GWEI-USD trading pair on February 24, 2026 at 9:00 AM PT.

REGULATORY

Debate surrounds tax reporting requirements and procedures, with ongoing discussion about compliance and reporting mechanisms.

OPINION SPECULATION

Bitcoin premium turned positive on February 23, 2026, after 40 consecutive days in negative territory, reaching its most positive level in 3 months as Bitcoin price surged 5%.

PARTNERSHIP

Coinbase Ventures participated in Based's $11.5 million Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital, structured as equity with token warrants.

6D ago
TECH EVENT

Launched CLI tool 'awal' for Agentic Wallets, enabling email-based authentication, Coinbase infrastructure, sponsored gas fees on Base, and x402 protocol.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Referenced as an example of a company fleeing Delaware and California due to unpredictable rules and regulatory risk.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Custodies over 80% of U.S. BTC and ETH ETF assets and recorded $31 billion in peak inflows from ETFs in 2025.

1W ago
PARTNERSHIP

Set to run multiple validators on Canton Network

MARKET ACTIVITY

Added ROBO to Coinbase roadmap.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Recorded peak $31 billion in ETF inflows in 2025.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Custodies over 80% of U.S. BTC and ETH ETF assets.

RISK ALERT

Experiencing Solana network outage, delaying sends and receives, preventing SOL transactions.

TEAM UPDATE

Increased headcount by 28%.

WHALE ACTIVITY

BlackRock deposited 2,563 BTC ($172.94M) and 49,852 ETH ($97.19M) on February 20, 2026.

PARTNERSHIP

Integrated Sui's token standard alongside ETH and SOL.

PARTNERSHIP

Cuts off Optimism DAO from millions in revenue, leading to a 25% price drop in OP token.

OPINION SPECULATION

Characterized a meeting between the Trump White House and major banks as "constructive and cooperative" in relation to Bitcoin market structure.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Total Value Locked (TVL) declined from $5.3 billion to approximately $3.9 billion.

OPINION SPECULATION

Banks are blocking crypto legislation according to Coinbase's statement.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad is speaking at Bitcoin 2026 conference.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Brian Armstrong spoke at the World Liberty Forum.

PARTNERSHIP

Backed Fxhash in a new funding round through Coinbase Ventures.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Faces OCC rulemaking proposal targeting stablecoin reward-sharing arrangements with affiliates for USDC yield; attended White House stablecoin legislative discussions on February 19, 2026, with Paul Grewal, Ripple, a16z, banking, and crypto trade organizations; GENIUS Act could surge stablecoin revenue 7x.

VISIBILITY EVENT

cbBTC was discussed on the Cryptocito Podcast as an example of a wrapped Bitcoin product requiring users to go through Coinbase as a centralized intermediary for wrapping BTC before using it as collateral in DeFi protocols like Aave.

REGULATORY

Coinbase CEO appointed to CFTC advisory committee alongside 34 other crypto executives.

REGULATORY

Treasury Secretary Bessent publicly called Coinbase a "recalcitrant actor" amid stablecoin regulation negotiations.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Buying Bitcoin according to recent industry commentary.

OPINION SPECULATION

President Trump expects to sign crypto market structure bill by February 18, 2026, with bipartisan support and a compromise involving major banks.

RISK ALERT

Experienced degraded performance affecting users' ability to send DEX tokens or perform DEX trades, with the team identifying the cause and working to restore services.

REGULATORY

Court case involving Coinbase originally scheduled for February 19, 2026 has been postponed until March 13, 2026.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Offers 3.5% APY on USDC holdings for Coinbase One members, with weekly rewards in BTC or USDC, daily accrual, no minimum balance, and no conversion fees if paid in BTC, starting February 19, 2026.

REGULATORY

Urged Congress to remove capital gains taxes on Bitcoin for everyday payments.

TECH EVENT

Base chain is transitioning from optimistic proofs to TEE/ZK proofs for faster finality.

TECH EVENT

Base chain is doubling its upgrade cadence from 3 to 6 hard forks per year.

REGULATORY

CLARITY Act expected by April 2026, with CEO Brian Armstrong and Senator Bernie Moreno supporting.

TECH EVENT

Migrates to a unified, self-operated Base stack built on Reth, with a Base V1 hardfork introducing TEE/ZK proofs, replicating the Coinbase/Base playbook in Bybit/Mantle synthesis.

PARTNERSHIP

Expanded Morpho-powered crypto-backed loan collateral to XRP, Dogecoin, Cardano, and Litecoin for U.S. users (excluding New York) to borrow up to $100,000 USDC.

PARTNERSHIP

contributed to ERC-8004 standard alongside Ethereum Foundation, MetaMask, and Google for onchain identity, reputation, and validation registries

PARTNERSHIP

Coinbase Ventures has invested in Zora multiple times.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal is confirmed as a speaker at Bitcoin 2026 conference.

WHALE ACTIVITY

Ark Invest purchased 41,400 Coinbase shares worth $6.9 million on 2026-02-17, reversing its recent selling pattern.

PARTNERSHIP

Expanded integration with Crypto ISAC to continuously share high-confidence threat intelligence for faster response to sophisticated attacks.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Assets on Coinbase increased 3x over the last 3 years.

PARTNERSHIP

5 of the GSIB (Global Systemically Important Banks) banks are starting to work with Coinbase.

ONCHAIN METRICS

USDC reached new all-time highs.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Now has 12 products generating over $100M of revenue on an annualized basis.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Total trading volume grew 156% year-over-year in 2025.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Coinbase One subscription service reached new all-time highs.

PARTNERSHIP

Maintains partnership with Circle that entitles Coinbase to 100% of USDC interest income for assets on its platform (exchange, Prime, custody products) and 50% of residual reserve income on USDC held on other exchanges, DeFi protocols, and wallets.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Partners with BlackRock Fund Advisors on the iShares Staked Ethereum Trust, retaining 18% of Ethereum staking revenue from gross staking rewards.

MARKET ACTIVITY

Activated full trading mode for WAL-USD pair on Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced, with limit, market, and stop orders now available.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Completed a $1.7B share buyback program.

ONCHAIN METRICS

Holds $11.3B in cash.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Guided Q1 operating expenses to $925M–$975M.

FINANCIAL EVENT

Guided Q1 subscription revenue to $550M–$630M.

VISIBILITY EVENT

Released highlights regarding earnings in a crypto news roundup.