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Consumer Protection Tuesday: How to Spring Clean Your Digital Life

Consumer Protection Tuesday: How to Spot and Avoid QR Code Scams

Jul 7, 20263 min read
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Coinbase Obtains MiFID License in the United Kingdom

Jul 7, 2026

Coinbase has secured a UK investment services authorisation. It means UK users will soon be able to trade derivatives and equities alongside crypto, on one platform, under one login. It will unlock the single biggest expansion of our UK product suite since we entered the market, and a major step toward bringing the everything exchange to life.

Coinbase Powers Spiko’s Mutual Fund with Stablecoin Funding

Coinbase Powers Spiko’s Mutual Fund with Stablecoin Funding

Jun 30, 2026

TLDR: In a landmark first for Europe, investors can now enter and exit a regulated mutual fund (UCITS) near-instantly using stablecoins. By leveraging Coinbase Payments, Spiko has eliminated the traditional multi-day settlement gap, allowing institutional investors  to move seamlessly between USDC and T-bills 24/7.

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Claims vs. Reality: What the BIS Gets Wrong About Stablecoins

Jun 28, 2026

The BIS once again argues that stablecoins fall short as money and threaten financial stability if they scale.

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Search, Don't Browse: Agentic LLM-Powered Signal Discovery for Fraud Detection

Jun 26, 2026

TL;DR: When a new fraud pattern hits, figuring out which signals already exist in your data — and what new ones you should build — is a manual, time-consuming process. We built a search tool over our internal feature store and event logs that lets fraud analysts describe a new scam in plain English and quickly discover relevant signals.

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System Update: Take Control of Your Money with Coinbase

Jun 16, 2026

Today, we’re launching several new products that further our mission of creating the Everything Exchange and being the most intelligent financial services app in the world.

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Coinbase and AWS let publishers accept agents as customers via x402

Jun 15, 2026

TL;DR: Coinbase is working with AWS CloudFront and WAF to let the web publishers and API providers behind a quarter of the internet accept agents as customers via x402.

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Coinbase Partners with MassPay to Unlock Cross-Border Stablecoin Payouts for Global Enterprises

Jun 11, 2026

TL;DR: MassPay is integrating Coinbase's payments infrastructure to make cross-border stablecoin payouts faster, cheaper, and more accessible for enterprise clients across the globe.

Coinbase Quantum Advisory Council Publishes Position Paper on Quantum Computing and Blockchain

Coinbase Quantum Advisory Council: Post-Quantum Migration and Abandoned Coins

Jun 11, 20267 min read
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Coinbase for Agents: Your AI Agent Can Now Trade and Pay with Coinbase

Jun 11, 2026

TL;DR: Coinbase for Agents connects your AI agent directly to your Coinbase account so it can trade, pay, and execute workflows on your behalf, all within limits you control. Available today as an MCP and CLI.

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Coinbase Payments: A Complete Solution for Stablecoin Payments

Jun 9, 2026

TL;DR: Coinbase Payments offers trusted, comprehensive infrastructure for stablecoin payments – helping businesses of any size move money faster, globally, and at institutional scale.

Consumer Protection Tuesday: How to Spring Clean Your Digital Life

Consumer Protection Tuesday: How Social Security and Investment Scammers Manipulate Their Victims

Jun 9, 20263 min read
Pre-IPOs Are Launching on Coinbase, Starting with SpaceX

Pre-IPOs Are Launching on Coinbase, Starting with SpaceX

Jun 3, 2026

TL;DR: Coinbase now offers pre-IPO perpetual futures, giving eligible traders outside the US price exposure to private companies before they go public. Our first listing is the SpaceX Pre-IPO Perpetual Future: USDC-settled, 24/7, no expiry. When SpaceX IPOs, it automatically transitions to the SpaceX Perp with no rollover needed.

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Fighting Scams at the Source: How Coinbase Helped Disrupt Criminal Networks in Southeast Asia

Jun 3, 20263 min read
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Automating Figma-to-Code at Coinbase

Jun 3, 2026

TL;DR: Turning Figma designs into production-ready code is a repetitive part of building software. To address this, we built an AI agent that reads Figma screenshots and writes the corresponding production code. Our first pilot took four days, where the same feature normally takes two to four weeks. The setup has three parts: a reference implementation the agent studies, a rules document that pins down exactly what to generate, and prompt templates that engineers fill in and run. We've published all of it to our internal skills platform so any team can pick it up.

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Coinbase invests in ProShares’ GENIUS Money Market ETF, IQMM, to advance stablecoin cash management

Jun 2, 2026

TL;DR: Coinbase is investing in ProShares’ GENIUS Money Market ETF, IQMM –  the first money market ETF designed to be eligible for stablecoin reserves under the GENIUS Act. As stablecoins become core to financial infrastructure,the industry needs better ways to manage the money that supports them. In addition to offering a full-stack stablecoin payments solution, Coinbase is supporting tools that can help stablecoins scale responsibly.

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Coinbase Powers Stablecoin Acceptance For Checkout.com’s Network of Enterprise Merchants

Jun 2, 2026

TL;DR: Checkout.com is launching stablecoin acceptance for eligible merchants in its network of 1,000+ enterprise customers, powered by Coinbase Payments. Consumers can pay in USDC or USDT; merchants continue to settle in USD through Checkout.com's existing rails.

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Making Europe’s Crypto Markets More Competitive

Jun 1, 2026

TL;DR: The EU has a real opportunity to use the MiCA review to turn early regulatory leadership into lasting competitive advantage. By refining the framework, Europe can drive innovation and investment, support more competitive stablecoin and DeFi markets, preserve access to global liquidity, and build a rulebook that is fit for the next phase of tokenisation and digital asset innovation. Coinbase looks forward to engaging with the European Commission on these priorities.

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A postmortem of our May 7, 2026 outage

Jun 1, 2026

TL;DR: On May 7, 2026, an AWS thermal event triggered a Coinbase outage. Recovery was delayed by a matching engine locked to the failed zone and a silent failure in AWS's managed Kafka service. Moving forward, we are improving our cross-zone standbys for our low-latency exchange and updating Kafka infrastructure.

Coinbase launches in India with direct INR rails

Coinbase launches in India with direct INR rails

May 31, 2026

TLDR: Indian customers can now deposit and withdraw INR directly on Coinbase, access spot and perpetual futures trading, and use the same platform trusted by institutions and traders around the world. Coinbase is registered with FIU-IND and fully compliant with Indian laws.

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.