Coinbase launched instant borrowing of USDC against PAX Gold (PAXG), letting US and Canadian users get liquidity against tokenized gold without selling it. The lending product is powered by Morpho and built on Base, and is available now in the US excluding New York, plus Canada. Coinbase followed its announcement with a legal-disclaimer post reiterating that availability and terms vary by jurisdiction and are subject to eligibility and market conditions.
Coinbase is powering USDC as the default dollar stablecoin in Samsung Wallet, now live for over 82M Galaxy users in the US. Users can top up, send, receive, and hold USDC directly from the wallet, in what Coinbase pitched with a casual "Babe wake up" announcement post.
Coinbase Prime now offers regulated access to global options and perps for institutions in the US and other eligible regions, with one unified liquidity pool shared by US and global traders. The exchange pitched it as bringing "global crypto markets, at home" to its institutional platform.
Coinbase has made perps available directly to US customers — "no VPNs required," per a post from Shan Aggarwal amplified by Coinbase's main X account. This confirms the rollout of the single-stock perpetuals Coinbase had been readying for the domestic platform, after equity perps were previously live only for eligible traders outside the US since March and were the subject of an earlier SEC filing.
New Jersey has formally dropped its staking lawsuit against Coinbase and lifted the cease-and-desist order the state's Bureau of Securities first issued in June 2023 — and Garden State users can now stake again. Coinbase announced that New Jersey residents can earn up to 12% APY staking eligible crypto, marking the return of the program after more than three years of halted rewards.
Coinbase's main X account posted a round-up of what's new since September, pointing to an October overview on its site. The list includes zero-commission stock options, up to $5,000 grants for running a Base community, up to 50% swap-fee rebates on Coinbase Wallet, AI-agent perp trading, and buying domains with stablecoins.
Coinbase announced that global derivatives powered by Deribit are now live for eligible traders on Coinbase for Agents, letting AI agents research markets, build strategies, and place trades within user-set limits by connecting a Coinbase account to an AI platform. The update extends the perp trading for agents that Coinbase first shipped under the AiFi² banner — "an agent asked for perps. We shipped perps for agents."
Coinbase launched its Midterms Dashboard, an interactive map for tracking the 2026 US midterm elections with live odds on outcomes such as which party will control the House and Senate. Coinbase promoted the dashboard on X with the pitch that election maps usually only appear after votes are counted — this one shows projected winners in real time.
Coinbase launched live crypto price prediction markets for US users, letting them trade binary event contracts on whether BTC, ETH, SOL and other assets will rise or fall over windows as short as 15 minutes up to daily. Users choose an asset, a timeframe and a direction; a correct call pays $1, a wrong one pays $0.
Coinbase is promoting trading through AI agents, telling users to connect assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, and Muse to its platform. A post from Coinbase's main X account pitches trading crypto, stocks, and derivatives "all from a single conversation" on the "Everything Exchange," pointing users to coinbase.com/agents, while earlier promos invited agents to "literally trade for you," dangling the example "Hey Jarvis, long the US500."
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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