Overview Total spot trading volume at $1.41 billion, near the 30-day average of $1.78 billion. Total futures notional at $398.2 million. The top 5 traded coins were, respectively, Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, Dogecoin, and Tether. Strong returns from Ripple (+57%) and Flow (+45%). January 30, 2021  $1412.8M traded across all markets today Crypto, EUR, USD, JPY, CAD, GBP, CHF, AUD  XBT $34271. ↓0.17% $460.5M XRP $0.4468 ↑57% $305.2M ETH $1373.8 ↓0.7% $188.6M XDG $0.0281 ↓39% $181.1M USDT $1.0010 ↑0.06% $103.1M XLM $0.3275 ↑11% $40.4M DOT $16.513 ↓1.9% $27.4M ADA $0.3634 ↑4.3% $26.8M UNI $19.522 ↑24% $22.2M USDC $0.9999 ↑0.0% $22.1M […]

Coinbase was selected as a full service partner and custodian by One River Asset Management Read more here about One River’s historic digital asset allocation and the fund’s journey to diversifying its portfolio. To read One River’s The Case For Digital Assets click here. By Brett Tejpaul, Head of Institutional Sales, Trading, Custody and Prime Services Coinbase […]

How to successfully migrate a critical microservice into monorepo By Shalini Oruganti TL;DR: Bazel monorepo is a Engineering-wide initiative at Coinbase. Our Payments is one of the first teams to migrate a critical Ruby on Rails service for a major EU/UK payment rail into monorepo. After solving for a variety of challenges, we successfully migrated our service. Background […]

Incident Post Mortem: January 6–7, 2021 *This article has been updated with a full post mortem.Last week, on January 6th and 7th, Coinbase experienced a critical outage which impacted the APIs used to serve coinbase.com and our mobile apps. Trading on our Exchange via the APIs, and underlying market health was unaffected. This post is a […]

As the most trusted brand in the crypto ecosystem, customer support is hugely important to us. But in recent weeks, our customer service has not been at the levels we expect for ourselves. We wanted to take the chance to both apologise and explain what we are doing to improve it. Some of our customers in […]

By Surojit Chatterjee, Chief Product Officer Cryptocurrency’s promise is to make money and payments universally accessible — to anyone, no matter where they are in the world. Creating an open financial system relies on us working together with the builders and the believers of the cryptoeconomy. At Coinbase, we have built one part of this vision, but we […]

Committing to a better customer experience during this time of heightened interest in the cryptoeconomy First things first: We will never ask you to create test accounts on other platforms or provide your ID or banking information over email or social media. We want you to keep your accounts safe and to remind you to […]

The acquisition will enable Bison Trails to accelerate its mission to provide easy-to-use blockchain infrastructure that strengthens the entire crypto ecosystem. Bison Trails will serve as a foundational element within Coinbase’s ecosystem suite of products, powering all participants in the cryptoeconomy. Crypto has come a long way since Satoshi’s whitepaper. At Coinbase we believe we […]

How Coinbase is building real connections in a remote-first world By Jesse Pollak, Head of Engineering, Consumer At Coinbase, we’ve shared our response to COVID-19 and our decision to go fully remote-first, even after quarantining ends. There’s a lot to consider, however, between deciding to go remote first and building a first class remote work […]

This letter was shared with Kenneth Blanco, Director, FinCEN on Jan. 25th, 2021. It is available to download here. January 25, 2021 Via email to [email protected] and [email protected] Kenneth A. BlancoDirector, Financial Crimes Enforcement NetworkUnited States Department of the TreasuryP.O. Box 39Vienna, VA 22183 Re: Biden Administration Rulemaking Pause; Docket No. FINCEN-2020–0020, RIN №1506-AB47 Dear Director Blanco: After the […]