Coinbase spotlighted Sivar, a remittance app by Modveon built on Coinbase infrastructure and Base, that lets US users send any amount to El Salvador for a flat $2 — transfer to the off-ramp included. The exchange noted Salvadorans sent $9B home last year, with percentage-based fees taking millions of it, framing the fixed-fee service as a cheaper alternative.
Coinbase teased a digital trading card experience coming to its app, telling users to "rip packs on your phone" with every pull backed by a real, physical card. The promo, posted to X, says collectors can vault or ship their pulls from a binder-style collection, with no launch date given beyond "soon on Coinbase."
Coinbase announced a partnership with Citi to bring stablecoins into the mainstream banking system, enabling instant stablecoin acceptance for institutions on what it calls bank-grade, regulated infrastructure. The exchange framed the move as "the next step for stablecoins becoming everyday money," extending its stablecoin rails beyond community banks into one of the world's largest commercial banks. Coinbase amplified the news by reposting Emilie Choi's message: "Institutions want stablecoins. One of the world's largest banks is helping us deliver them."
Coinbase's AiFi platform — the agentic finance system built on Coinbase for Agents — now lets AI agents access equities alongside crypto and derivatives. Through x402 payments, agents can pay for market data mid-task while continuing to execute their operator's directions. Chief Policy Officer Alec Glovett summed up the buildout as the pieces coming together: agents can trade crypto, trade derivatives, and trade US equities.
In a recap of the agent toolkit, Coinbase laid out the full range: trade crypto, US stocks and derivatives, pay for market data, manage capital efficiency, and run workflows and automations. The exchange also detailed the legal setup — securities are offered by Coinbase Capital Markets Corporation (CCM), a FINRA/SIPC member, while digital-asset services are offered by Coinbase Inc., and digital assets are not SIPC-protected. Fractional shares are only available for eligible stocks. It extends Coinbase's agent infrastructure beyond onchain trading into traditional markets, following earlier steps like AgentKit and the x402 agentic payments protocol.
Coinbase has named more participants in its live, in-person trading competition streaming from Singapore on October 8. Trader @osf_rekt is now officially in the field, joining previously announced entrants @blknoiz06 and prominent crypto-Twitter figure Ansem. Coinbase also confirmed it is the exclusive exchange partner of @RektMkts.
Coinbase is giving US retail customers access to primary financial markets, letting them participate in IPOs as part of its push to build an "Everything Exchange" for trading any asset across its lifecycle. Oura, the maker of smart rings and health wearables, is the first IPO on the platform, with allocation requests now open in the app through September 29 at 4:00 PM ET, before public trading begins.
Coinbase announced it is a launch partner for Cashtags on 𝕏 (X). The integration lets users see a ticker on their timeline and tap the Cashtag to trade that stock on Coinbase directly from the social platform, promoted with the tagline "See a ticker on 𝕏. Tap the Cashtag. Trade it on Coinbase."
Following the announcement, Coinbase teased the feature to xAI's Grok, tagging the AI assistant in a reply to its own post asking "what do you think about this?" — the latest nudge in the exchange's push to put its trading rails in front of AI agents.
Coinbase said it partnered with Microsoft to disrupt EvilTokens, an AI-powered cybercrime platform used to steal Microsoft 365 accounts and run financial fraud. The exchange's team joined the global effort by investigating the platform's infrastructure, helping take down domains, and supporting police in arresting operators.
Coinbase announced fixed-rate loans backed by Bitcoin, built by Morpho Midnight on Base, now available in the US excluding New York. Borrowers can keep their Bitcoin while drawing liquidity, locking in their rate and repayment dates before taking out the loan.
Coinbase said it filed SEC-notice registrations for its derivatives exchange and broker as it works to bring single stock perpetual futures to the US, with the company now confirming it has
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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