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System Update: The future of finance is on Coinbase

Dec 17, 2025

Today, we launched several new products to usher in the future of finance on Coinbase.

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Coinbase Q1 Financial Results Show Resilient Financial Performance Driven by New All-Time High Crypto Trading Volume Market Share

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May 7, 2026

Results indicate strong fundamentals despite short term macro headwinds.

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Coinbase Receives Conditional OCC Approval: Building the Future of Finance

Greg Tusar

Apr 2, 2026

Today marks a significant milestone in Coinbase's long pursuit of regulatory clarity: we have received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to charter Coinbase National Trust Company.

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Coinbase Powers the First Crypto-Backed, Conforming Mortgages by Better

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Mar 26, 2026

Coinbase is working with Better to make crypto-backed mortgages a reality for millions of Americans. This first-of-its-kind mortgage product, offered by Better and powered by Coinbase, expands access to homeownership while benefitting from the same backing of Fannie Mae as other conforming mortgages.

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Coinbase Australia Receives AFSL Licence: A New Chapter for Crypto in Australia

John O’Loghlen

Apr 7, 2026

Tldr: Coinbase Australia has been granted an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) with a retail derivatives authorisation, making us the first crypto exchange to receive this landmark approval from ASIC. This milestone deepens our commitment to Australian customers and positions Coinbase as a trusted, regulated home for crypto in one of the world's most engaged crypto markets.

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2026 EY-Parthenon and Coinbase survey: Volatility sharpens institutional approach to crypto but doesn’t dampen enthusiasm

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Mar 18, 2026

Despite a challenging market environment, investors are committed to crypto for the long term. That’s the key takeaway from a 2026 EY-Parthenon team and Coinbase survey of 351 institutional investors.

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Coinbase Opens Stock Trading to Everyone in the US, Partners with Yahoo Finance to Power Discovery

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Stock trading is now available on Coinbase to everyone in the U.S., enabling customers to trade stocks and ETFs 24/5 in the same place as their crypto. As part of this milestone, Coinbase and Yahoo Finance are partnering to enable users to move from researching an asset on Yahoo Finance to executing a trade on Coinbase with one simple click.

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What’s changing with crypto taxes this year

Lawrence Zlatkin

Feb 17, 2026

For the first time, the IRS is requiring custodial brokers, like Coinbase, to report customer proceeds from crypto transactions. This includes a new Form 1099-DA and aggregated reporting for certain stablecoin transactions.

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Coinbase to acquire The Clearing Company: Powering the future of prediction markets

Max Branzburg

Dec 22, 2025•2 min read

Coinbase has entered an agreement to acquire The Clearing Company, a prediction markets company innovating at the frontier of regulated, onchain markets. The team brings deep expertise that will help power and scale prediction markets on Coinbase.

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Dec 22, 2025

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Create your own stablecoin with Coinbase

Coinbase

Dec 18, 2025

TL;DR: Coinbase is launching Custom Stablecoins, allowing any business to create a custom stablecoin fully backed 1:1 by flexible collateral (including USDC), all custodied by Coinbase.

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An Evolution of Leadership at the Coinbase Global Advisory Council: George Osborne to Chair

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Coinbase and Hyperliquid: Aligning Markets on Hyperliquid to USDC

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May 14, 2026

TL;DR: Coinbase is expanding support for onchain markets by becoming the official treasury deployer of USDC on Hyperliquid. As part of this transition, Native Markets has agreed to terms granting Coinbase the right to purchase the USDH brand assets. Over the coming months, users will continue to be able to redeem USDH for USDC or fiat without fees via Native Markets’ USDH Dashboard. USDC has seen rapid growth on Hyperliquid (~$5B total, 2x YoY), and now with Coinbase’s support, represents the deepest onchain integration of a stablecoin to date.

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Ethereum Validator Performance Report Q1 2026

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Coding Had a Concurrency Problem: How Mux Helped Solve It

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May 11, 2026

TL;DR: AI coding agents made individual engineers faster, but the workflow around them stayed sequential. That’s changed. At Coinbase, engineers are evolving from implementers into orchestrators of agent fleets. The evidence is Mux, an internal multi-agent tool that started as one engineer's side project and grew organically to 600+ users across every org. Power users now merge 3.5x more PRs than baseline.

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Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, Powered by x402 and Coinbase

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May 7, 2026

TL;DR: Coinbase's x402 discovery layer and wallet infrastructure are now natively integrated into Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments. This helps AWS developers deploy agents that discover, make micropayments, and use services on their own. All with enterprise governance, built-in compliance, and instant USDC settlement on Base and Solana.

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The Future of Gold and Silver Trading is on Coinbase

Coinbase

May 6, 2026

TL;DR: Coinbase has launched gold (GOLD-PERP) and silver (SILVER-PERP) perpetual futures for eligible non‑US traders, bringing two of the world’s most established store‑of‑value assets into the crypto derivatives ecosystem.

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Building a leaner and faster Coinbase

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May 5, 2026

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Coinbase partners with Kemet to expand institutional access to Coinbase derivatives markets

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Coinbase Launches Self-Managed Super Funds (SMSFs) Support in Australia

John O’Loghlen, Pete Patanapanlert

May 3, 2026

**TLDR:**Coinbase Australia is officially launching dedicated support for Self-Managed Super Funds (SMSFs). We’re providing Australian trustees with a seamless, compliant, and secure path to diversify retirement portfolios with digital assets—backed by our landmark AFSL and local expertise.

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Disclaimers: Derivatives trading through the Coinbase Advanced platform is offered to eligible EEA customers by Coinbase Financial Services Europe Ltd. (CySEC License 374/19). In order to access derivatives, customers will need to pass through our standard assessment checks to determine their eligibility and suitability for this product.

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