Coinbase is reshaping its Ethereum layer-2 network, Base, around trading, payments and tokenized assets as Robinhood’s new blockchain rapidly gains users and liquidity in many of the same markets. On July 15, Base creator Jesse Pollak acknowledged that the network’s earlier emphasis on social products had allowed it to lose ground in several of crypto’s […]
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The newly-convened x402 Foundation is a neutral space where competitors and payment methods can work together to create an open standard for AI agentic commerce.
Pollak said that Jordan Fish, also known on X as 'Cobie,' will lead the Base app team.
Coinbase executive Jesse Pollak will focus on Base blockchain's infrastructure, prioritizing trading, stablecoin payments, and AI agents.
William Blair expects Coinbase's earnings to bottom in the second half of 2026 before rebounding next year.
Hyperliquid's deal with Circle and Coinbase creates a "prisoner's dilemma" that puts pressure on earnings from the dollar-pegged stablecoin.
Coinbase is still trying to make on-chain activity feel less like a specialist task. Its latest Smart Wallet verification upgrade fits that broader effort, targeting a problem that becomes more obvious every time users m
Coinbase Render Listing Puts AI Compute Tokens Back In Front Of Retail Traders is the kind of crypto story that looks simple at headline level but becomes more useful once you place it inside the wider market backdrop. Coinbase listings st
Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal joined the firm in mid-2020 to lead its legal, compliance and government relations operations.
Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal will depart the exchange, though he'll continue as an adviser, he said Thursday.
The ruling gives New York room to press sports-event enforcement while the CFTC is still writing national rules.
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Coinbase is giving Filecoin traders a new way to take risk. By adding margin support for FIL, the exchange is not just listing another feature. It is expanding how one of crypto’s older infrastructure tokens can be trade
Coinbase secured a UK investment services license to offer derivatives and equities trading in addition to crypto.
The license allows institutional traders to access perpetual futures and gives U.K. retail customers the ability to trade equities to begin with.
A disputed Coinbase sports alert shows why exchange-run prediction markets need visible provenance, verified event data, and clear accountability before automated content scales inside trading apps.
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CEO Brian Armstrong investigated, and the firm said it made updates to prevent future AI-generated inaccuracies.
Cathie Wood's ARK Invest bought roughly $77 million of crypto stocks in June, adding $44 million of Coinbase (COIN), $25.25 million of Circle (CRCL), and $8.2 million of Bullish (BLSH) during Bitcoin's worst month in four years, according to ARK's daily trade disclosures. The purchases extend a thesis both Wood and other funds have held […]
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The stablecoin market has long rewarded the companies that issue digital dollars. They take in customer cash, hold reserves in short-term government securities, and earn the yield. Now, the companies that distribute those tokens want more of the economics. That tension is at the center of Open USD (OUSD), a planned stablecoin backed by more […]
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The Coinbase Premium Index has reportedly stayed negative since May 6, pointing to softer US Bitcoin demand relative to global venues.
Ark Invest has a tendency to "buy the dip," loading up on shares in cryptocurrency companies when their prices are depressed.
Crypto firms contributed $189 million to the 2026 midterms, with Ripple, Crypto.com and Coinbase leading corporate donations.
Bernstein said DraftKings' DKeX launch keeps prediction-market revenue in-house as consolidation reshapes trading and betting platforms.
The European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) has triggered a fight among licensed crypto exchanges to capture users and deposits from platforms that may no longer be allowed to serve the bloc. The new regulation, which is set to take full effect on July 1, hardens the line between firms with bloc-wide authorization and those still […]
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Brian Armstrong of Coinbase and Star Xu of OKX offered new users sign up bonuses of up to 8% of their deposits or transfers from other accounts.
Base block production resumed as of 16:11 UTC, following an alert to another mainnet chain stall at 15:33 UTC.
Base delayed its Beryl mainnet upgrade to June 26 to give the B20 Activation Registry time to become fully operational.
Coinbase's blockchain Base says a consensus problem knocked its network offline for around two hours on Thursday before it returned online.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the exchange remains open to more acquisitions after closing its $2.9 billion Deribit deal.
The incident temporarily halted transaction processing on one of Ethereum's largest layer-2 networks.
Deposits and withdrawals have also been affected, while transactions are delayed or stalled, according to Base's status page.