Engineering

NodeSmith: AI-Driven Automation for Blockchain Node Upgrades

TL;DR: NodeSmith is Coinbase’s AI-driven system for automating blockchain node upgrades. It has reduced engineering upgrade effort by 30%, eliminated missed mandatory upgrades, and added automated analysis of every upgrade’s code changes.

Grounded Explanations: Combining Real Counterfactuals with Saliency Maps for Honest AI Interpretability

TL;DR: During my internship at Coinbase this summer, I implemented a novel tool to generate local explanations for deep neural networks.

How We Are Making Coinbase Easier to Use

TL;DR: Our 2025 account restriction improvements roadmap. These upgrades will make Coinbase easier to use and more secure. In-App and Automated EDD, Voice Calling with Activity Logs, Compliance Automation, and Consensus 2FA and Time Delay are rolling out.

Tools for Developer Productivity at Coinbase

TL;DR: Our mission is to make Coinbase the best place to build in crypto. To achieve this, we implement a continuous improvement flywheel throughout the company, driven by a strong suite of tools and platforms.

Optimizing Producer-Consumer Architecture for Market Data at Coinbase

TL;DR: Migrating Market Data Services to a low allocation in-memory ringbuffer architecture drastically improved latency and performance.

Solana Validator Performance Report

This article details our Solana validator performance, key validator characteristics, and switch from cloud to bare metal infrastructure -- a major change that has resulted in more performant operations.

How to Move Fast with Confidence

How Coinbase Builds Sequence Features for Machine Learning

TL;DR: Coinbase has developed a framework to rapidly develop and productionize user sequence features, improving model performance for both fraud detection and recommender systems.

The Ultimate Guide to Ethereum's Pectra Upgrade

Announcing SOC 2 Type 1 for Coinbase Staking

Innovation Matters: Coinbase Breaks New Ground with MPC Security Technology

Ethereum Validator Performance Report

TL;DR: In an effort to provide transparency into our staking performance and validator operations, we are excited to share our first Ethereum validator performance report. This initial report covers performance data for the most recent complete month.

How accessibility drives product quality at Coinbase

TL;DR: Coinbase’s mission is to increase economic freedom in the world, for everyone. This commitment includes the unbanked households with a member who has a disability. We are building more accessible products to better serve them.

Building economic freedom, one pixel at a time

TL;DR Today we’re sharing a glimpse into how we approach Product Design at Coinbase. Recently, we made a number of important updates to the Coinbase app to help make it even more simple, accessible, and trusted by our customers around the world.

Boosting App Performance: Strategies to Optimize Network Requests

Coinbase optimizes network request patterns via architecture improvements, peak load optimizations, and guardrails to scale systems and onboard the next billion crypto users.

Accelerating Deep Learning Adoption at Coinbase

TL;DR EasyTensor is a Python framework that simplifies building, training, and deploying deep learning models on tabular and multimodal data.

Behind the Scenes of the Conversational Coinbase Chatbot

TL;DR: Coinbase is using GenAI to handle tens of thousands of customer support queries every month.

Introducing the Coinbase Advanced TypeScript SDK

TL;DR: The Advanced Trade TypeScript SDK is a flexible sample application that allows customers to automate their crypto trading strategies on Coinbase Advanced.

How Coinbase is Using Machine Learning to Predict Traffic and Scale Databases

TL;DR: Coinbase has developed and deployed a machine learning model that predicts spikes in user traffic and automatically scales databases, preventing downtime and increasing platform efficiency.

Security PSA: Infinite Token Approvals