System Update: The future of finance is on Coinbase

Dec 17, 2025

Today, we launched several new products to usher in the future of finance on Coinbase.

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Pre-IPOs Are Launching on Coinbase, Starting with SpaceX

Coinbase
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.

Coinbase Brings Global Crypto Derivatives to US Market

Coinbase
May 29, 2026
TL;DR: Coinbase Financial Markets is now the first and only US-regulated FCM offering access to global crypto derivatives markets, including crypto perpetual futures and options. Existing US providers offer access to domestic futures exchanges, but none connect clients to global crypto perpetual futures and options liquidity. Institutional clients can begin onboarding today.

Coming June 14: Perpetual-Style Equity Index Futures

Coinbase
May 21, 2026
Tl;dr: On June 14, Coinbase Derivatives will launch the first perpetual-style equity index futures listed on a US regulated exchange, bringing this proven structure into a CFTC-regulated framework.

Coinbase Q1 Financial Results Show Resilient Financial Performance Driven by New All-Time High Crypto Trading Volume Market Share

Coinbase
May 7, 2026
Results indicate strong fundamentals despite short term macro headwinds.

Coinbase Receives Conditional OCC Approval: Building the Future of Finance

Greg Tusar
Apr 2, 2026
Today marks a significant milestone in Coinbase's long pursuit of regulatory clarity: we have received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to charter Coinbase National Trust Company.

Coinbase Powers the First Crypto-Backed, Conforming Mortgages by Better

Coinbase
Mar 26, 2026
Coinbase is working with Better to make crypto-backed mortgages a reality for millions of Americans. This first-of-its-kind mortgage product, offered by Better and powered by Coinbase, expands access to homeownership while benefitting from the same backing of Fannie Mae as other conforming mortgages.

Coinbase Australia Receives AFSL Licence: A New Chapter for Crypto in Australia

John O’Loghlen
Apr 7, 2026
Tldr: Coinbase Australia has been granted an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) with a retail derivatives authorisation, making us the first crypto exchange to receive this landmark approval from ASIC. This milestone deepens our commitment to Australian customers and positions Coinbase as a trusted, regulated home for crypto in one of the world's most engaged crypto markets.

2026 EY-Parthenon and Coinbase survey: Volatility sharpens institutional approach to crypto but doesn’t dampen enthusiasm

Coinbase
Mar 18, 2026
Despite a challenging market environment, investors are committed to crypto for the long term. That’s the key takeaway from a 2026 EY-Parthenon team and Coinbase survey of 351 institutional investors.

Coinbase Opens Stock Trading to Everyone in the US, Partners with Yahoo Finance to Power Discovery

Coinbase
Stock trading is now available on Coinbase to everyone in the U.S., enabling customers to trade stocks and ETFs 24/5 in the same place as their crypto. As part of this milestone, Coinbase and Yahoo Finance are partnering to enable users to move from researching an asset on Yahoo Finance to executing a trade on Coinbase with one simple click.

Coinbase to acquire The Clearing Company: Powering the future of prediction markets

Max Branzburg
Dec 22, 2025 • 2 min read
Coinbase has entered an agreement to acquire The Clearing Company, a prediction markets company innovating at the frontier of regulated, onchain markets. The team brings deep expertise that will help power and scale prediction markets on Coinbase.

Working with the Brooklyn DA to support victims and help bring an alleged scammer to justice

Coinbase
Dec 19, 2025 • 4 min read

Building enterprise AI agents at Coinbase: engineering for trust, scale, and repeatability

Jason Dodds
Dec 22, 2025

Create your own stablecoin with Coinbase

Coinbase
Dec 18, 2025
TL;DR: Coinbase is launching Custom Stablecoins, allowing any business to create a custom stablecoin fully backed 1:1 by flexible collateral (including USDC), all custodied by Coinbase.

An Evolution of Leadership at the Coinbase Global Advisory Council: George Osborne to Chair

Faryar Shirzad
Dec 18, 2025 • 1 min read

State of Crypto Q4 2025: Younger investors are rewriting the investing playbook

Coinbase
Dec 16, 2025 • 4 min read

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

Coinbase
Jun 3, 2026 • 3 min read

Automating Figma-to-Code at Coinbase

Matheus Moreira, Marvin Mathew
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.

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

Coinbase
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.

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

Coinbase
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.

Making Europe’s Crypto Markets More Competitive

Katie Harries
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.

A postmortem of our May 7, 2026 outage

Coinbase
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

John O’Loghlen
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.

Expanding TRUST: a privacy-first network for global crypto compliance

Coinbase
May 28, 2026
TRUST is growing globally. Today, we are announcing major milestones to make global, privacy-first Travel Rule compliance simpler: the launch of TRUSThub, continued international expansion, announcing BNY membership, and a partnership with 21 Analytics to accelerate global connectivity.

Q1 2026 Solana Validator Performance Report

Coinbase
May 28, 2026

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.**