Coinbase is working with Thunes Payments to connect its stablecoin infrastructure to local bank accounts and mobile wallets worldwide, so stablecoins sent across borders can land somewhere recipients can actually spend them. Under the partnership, announced at Money20/20 USA, Coinbase will integrate Thunes' Direct Global Network for real-time "last-mile" delivery to billions of mobile wallets and bank accounts in 140+ countries, including hard-to-reach regions with limited banking infrastructure.
Coinbase is promoting trading of index and crypto perpetual futures through AI assistants, telling users to connect agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok to its platform. The promo, posted to X, dangles the example "Hey Jarvis, long the US500" and says setup starts by telling the agent to "connect to" Coinbase's connector page.
Coinbase for Agents is now live on Composio, the AI-agent integration platform that connects agents to more than 1,500 apps. The announcement, relayed through Coinbase's X account from @CoinbaseDev, lets developers build multi-app agent workflows with Coinbase's trading and wallet infrastructure as one of the connected tools.
Coinbase is powering stablecoin checkouts across Yuno's global payments network, letting more merchants accept crypto payments at checkout. Yuno — a payment orchestration platform connecting thousands of local and global payment methods through a single API — now offers stablecoin acceptance backed by Coinbase's payments infrastructure.
Coinbase Markets said it removed the $0.01 NFA fee from every derivatives contract, a small update framed as savings for active traders. The change applies across its derivatives line and was announced via a retweet of the exchange's markets account.
Coinbase has launched stock options trading in its app, letting users trade calls and puts with no commissions while seeing defined risk before they trade — in the same app they already use. The exchange pitched the rollout as "more everything, in one place," now live on Coinbase.
The launch extends Coinbase's push to become an "Everything Exchange" for equities and derivatives, following its earlier moves into stock trading, IPO allocations, and single-stock perpetual futures filings.
Coinbase published a September recap on X listing what users can now do in its app that wasn't possible in August: request IPO shares, ask @Grok to trade, trade Cashtags directly on X, use prediction markets on Coinbase Wallet, and borrow against HYPE and ZEC — plus more. The post is a roundup of the exchange's launches over the month rather than a new product announcement, linking to an in-thread recap of September releases, including the openings for IPO allocations and the Cashtags integration with the social platform.
Coinbase Markets marked Anthropic's IPO listing by pointing traders to its pre-IPO perpetual futures as a way to get exposure before the public listing. "You don't need to wait to trade," the exchange said, pitching the perps as available any day, any time on Coinbase.
Coinbase amplified a post from President and COO Emilie Choi recapping the exchange's major partnerships from the past month: Citi for institutional stablecoin access, Moov for local bank stablecoin integration, and Stablecore for local bank digital asset services.
The recap pulls together deals Coinbase already announced, underscoring its push to embed stablecoin rails into traditional finance — from one of the world's largest banks down to community banks and credit unions.
Coinbase expanded its crypto-backed lending to HYPE and ZEC, letting US users (excluding New York) instantly borrow up to $100,000 against those assets instead of selling them. The loans are powered by Morpho on Base, extending the exchange's earlier launch of fixed-rate Bitcoin-backed loans built by Morpho Midnight on Base.
Borrowers keep their crypto while drawing liquidity, locking in their rate and repayment dates before taking out the loan.
Coinbase unveiled Coinbase Advisor, one of the first SEC-registered AI-powered investment advisors, built into the Coinbase app and rolling out to Coinbase One members.
The SEC filed a joint stipulation to dismiss its civil enforcement action against Coinbase, ending the case initiated in June 2023.
Coinbase took an equity stake in Circle and dissolved the CENTRE Consortium, giving Circle full control of USDC issuance and governance.
Coinbase launched the public mainnet of Base, its Ethereum layer-2 network built with Optimism's OP stack, making Coinbase the first public company to release a blockchain.
The SEC charged Coinbase with operating as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency, plus unregistered offer and sale of securities via staking program.
Coinbase acquired One River Digital Asset Management, an SEC-registered institutional digital asset manager, which became Coinbase Asset Management.
Coinbase listed its Class A common stock on Nasdaq under ticker 'COIN' via a direct listing, with a valuation of around $86 billion.
Coinbase announced the acquisition of blockchain-infrastructure provider Bison Trails, reported above $80 million, closing on February 8, 2021.
Coinbase and Circle co-founded the CENTRE Consortium and launched USDC, a dollar-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum.
Coinbase announced its acquisition of Earn.com for a reported $100 million, bringing in its CEO Balaji Srinivasan as Coinbase's first CTO.
Coinbase was founded by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam in San Francisco. It launched its Bitcoin buying/selling service in October 2012.
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