Coinbase status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Coinbase reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Coinbase users through our website.

• Mobile App (35%)
• Transactions (24%)
• Login (24%)
• Website (12%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Coinbase outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Houston	Mobile App	2 days ago
Louisville	Mobile App	1 month ago
Guayaquil		1 month ago
Rancho Santa Margarita	Login	2 months ago
Montreux	Website	2 months ago
Miami	Transactions	2 months ago

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Coinbase Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Ben Ruggles (@BenRustC) reported 3 minutes ago

  Coinbase's foray into AI-led operations has encountered a significant setback. A multi-hour outage, triggered by a cooling failure in Amazon Web Services, has raised questions about the company's strategic shift. This incident highlights the potential risks of relying on third-party cloud services for critical exchange operations.

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  PRIVADA CUMY 🇦🇱 (@cumyprivada) reported 4 minutes ago

  Always writing long epistles while ignoring the real issue. Coinbase made a post about listing your project token with trillions in supply, and it has sparked controversy across the space for the past two days. Yet not a single team member has come out to properly address the concerns. That silence says a lot about how little you value your community. Who exactly do you expect to use your product when it finally launches on mainnet? The same community whose concerns you keep ignoring?

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  Sham Altman (@RealShamAltman) reported 6 minutes ago

  @asaio87 Look at Coinbase, their stupid bald CEO fired developers and then they have to recover slower from AWS outage almost immediately

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  NoBitchNiggas (@NoBitchNiggas4) reported 8 minutes ago

  @pedro5551 Yeah cause phantom wallet gives a **** about what i hold on coinbase wallet and uses a gmail

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  aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported 9 minutes ago

  @SeeEnEffTee got legs. wintermute support + binance/coinbase flow + IP ownership isn't pump and dump structure outflows getting absorbed, not cascading

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  Dan Melnick (@DanPMelnick) reported 12 minutes ago

  Cloudflare just eliminated 20% of its staff while citing massive AI productivity gains. 1,100 employees. Gone in a single announcement. What organizational compression means for you: your engineering function could be next. Coinbase cut 14% of its staff, noting engineers now ship in days instead of weeks. Block reduced its workforce while leaning into AI efficiencies. All restructuring simultaneously. The industry calls it an AI-first transformation. This is not a headline about tech layoffs. It is a headline about workforce architecture. The function is being rebuilt around new pillars: system design, AI code review, and high-level problem solving. The goal is to organize around the capabilities that will matter most next. That sentence deserves a second read. Because it does not describe the roles being eliminated. It describes the roles replacing them. The new structure does not replicate the old one with fewer people. It is built around fundamentally different assumptions about what developers can do when AI handles the syntax and repetitive layer. This is the pattern I have been tracking across software development for months. Meta moved to leaner teams. Amazon restructured around AI operations. Now the industry is not just compressing headcount. It is redesigning the logic of how a build operates. I watch a version of this happen firsthand every day at Zing. We use our Six-Step Software Methodology to cut development time by 40%. The part that never makes the headlines: the developers who stay do not keep their old jobs with AI bolted on. They get entirely new jobs. Writing code becomes reviewing code. The skillset changes. The bottleneck changes. The definition of what "good" looks like changes. AI handles the volume, while humans handle the 20% that requires strategy, architecture, and judgment. That is the difference between task automation and structural redesign. Task automation makes people faster. Structural redesign removes the need for the old architecture entirely. Most dev shops are still doing the first. The smart ones are doing the second. Here is what concerns me. The gap between what AI enables and what most organizations have actually restructured around continues to widen. AI-forward teams are on one side of that gap. Almost everyone else is on the other. And the distance between the two groups is growing every quarter. Your CTO is watching this. Your board should be too. The question worth raising in your next leadership meeting is not "how do we make our developers code faster with AI." It is: if we rebuilt this function from scratch around AI-era capabilities, what would it look like? Not which roles become faster. Which roles shift entirely to system design. And what replaces the junior work. Most organizations are not asking that question yet. The winners just did.

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  Saigo (@Sagondolma) reported 12 minutes ago

  @XRP2017OG @DelCrxpto @coinbase Brother I bought sol 3 days ago and still haven't received it from Coinbase...they forced to my kyc again and put my account into review. Hundreds of others experiencing the same issue

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  Solid Signal 📡 (@solidsignal_x) reported 14 minutes ago

  BREAKING: Bitwise’s Solana ETF just received another 67,407 $SOL valued at approximately $6.4 million from Coinbase. 🟣 The accumulation trend isn’t slowing down.

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  toni (@tonitrades_) reported 15 minutes ago

  @0xSweep People keep blaming the scammer but the real question is how a fake site ranked above the real Coinbase in Google search. That hole is probably still open.

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  Frank Rundatz (@FrankRundatz) reported 15 minutes ago

  @mbacarella Of course they’re related. I’m struggling to understand your point though. My point is that Coinbase could’ve made a redundant system while maintaining low latency. But they didn’t in this case. Your point seems to be that redundancy is hard. So does that mean you just accept any downtime you get? Or you stay up for days trying to route around it when it’s down? How much data was lost when the servers literally went down from overheating in the middle of trading?

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  czverse (@czverse) reported 18 minutes ago

  For 30 years, the internet ran on one payment assumption: Humans authorize. Humans approve. Humans pay. Every financial rail ever built assumed a person at the end of the wire. Credit cards - designed for humans. Bank transfers - designed for humans. PayPal - designed for humans. Then on May 7th, AWS flipped a switch. And the assumption broke. AI agents running on Amazon's infrastructure can now pay for things. By themselves. In real money. In 200 milliseconds. No human in the loop. The Coinbase head of infrastructure didn't bury the headline: "There will soon be more AI agents transacting than humans." Here's what they actually built: AWS Bedrock AgentCore Payments. Agents get a wallet. Wallet is funded by a human. Agent spends - within hard limits you set. Settlement happens in USDC on Coinbase Base or Solana. Cost per transaction: fractions of a cent. And the protocol underneath is elegant. It's called x402. Built on HTTP 402 - a status code that's existed since 1991. "Payment Required." Engineers reserved it in the original web specs. Never implemented it - because the financial rails of the 90s couldn't support it. Stablecoin rails can. So x402 is finally live. 30 years later. The use cases are already real: → APIs become pay-per-call - no contracts, no accounts, just transact → MCP servers get paid directly by agents doing research → Paywalled content charges per article - agents pay 5 cents to read → Agents hire other agents and pay them per completed task Warner Bros. Discovery is testing it. Heurist AI is building agent labor markets on top of it. And that creates the question nobody's ready for: What happens to the economy when agents are the buyers? No impulse purchases. No brand loyalty. No UI dark patterns. Agents optimize purely on price, speed, and quality. The machine economy doesn't browse. It transacts. We broke down the full architecture, the x402 protocol, every use case, and the risks in detail. Link in bio. czverse

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  Marcus Furrelius (@MarcusFurrelius) reported 18 minutes ago

  @coinbase And now @coinbase support chat is failing to send my messages after we have been chatting for at least an hour and half.

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  Dela (@delaanthonio) reported 20 minutes ago

  @FrankRundatz Which other financial app with similar requirements had an outage? It seems only Coinbase had this issue since I haven't heard of any other trading platforms experiencing an outage. They can fix this problem soon, given that their managers do IC work.

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  Danny Iskandar (@disk0x) reported 21 minutes ago

  @gregosuri @NotoriousPtG_2 working closely with virtual, coinbase for AI agent?

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  RunnerXBT (@RunnerXBT) reported 27 minutes ago

  Coinbase is reminding me 12 times a day to update my Tax/Paper work by January 2027. Yet it didnt ask me once to sell my confidential data via some Pajeet from their Customer Service

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  Shesster 🟧 ⛳️🏀 (@Shesster34) reported 30 minutes ago

  @robrayofficial @coinbase I'm with you on this! They might need a #seeker to help them see the light?

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  T mailed (@t_mailed59540) reported 34 minutes ago

  @cryptodotnews Did aws related any news or these claims are from coinbase only ? As u know its cloud so other customer also should be effected else It can be espionage by govt !! U know what may have happened ??!!

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  neotextus (@n3otextus) reported 35 minutes ago

  Fairblock × Turnkey: what this means for on chain privacy Friday's AMA dropped an interesting tease. @0xfairblock is integrating with Turnkey. Here's why this is a serious move. Who is Turnkey? An infrastructure team out of New York, spun out of Coinbase Custody. They build the engine for embedded non-custodial wallets. Devs plug their API/SDK into any app and get wallets baked right in, no seed phrases, no clunky UX. Under the hood: private keys live inside AWS Nitro Enclaves (TEEs) and never leave the enclave in plaintext. Signing latency of 50 to 100ms, 99.9% uptime, verifiable code. In June 2025 they closed a $30M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, with Sequoia, Lightspeed, Galaxy, and Wintermute joining in. Over $50M raised in total. Customers include Polymarket, Magic Eden, Bridge (acquired by Stripe for billions), World, Alchemy, Moonshot, Injective. That's the tier we're talking about. What does the Fairblock combo unlock? Turnkey handles wallet creation and transaction signing on solid infrastructure. Fairblock layers encryption on top: encrypted mempool, confidential stablecoin transfers, MEV protection. Turnkey wallet users get private transactions out of the box. No migrations, no new keys, no need to learn crypto privacy. And what about Bitcoin? This is where it gets interesting. Fairblock's public GitHub already has repos like confidential tether wdk and wdk protocol confidential fairblock evm, direct integrations with Tether's Wallet Development Kit. WDK is Tether's open-source SDK that powers their post USDT strategy. It supports Bitcoin, Lightning Network, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, Solana, TON. Ardoino is betting on a future where trillions of AI agents settle in BTC and stablecoins through WDK. Fairblock is writing code directly on top of this framework, which means privacy is coming to Bitcoin too. Confidential BTC transfers, hidden amounts, private Lightning payments. All of it becomes possible without separate privacy coins, forks, or mixers. Just encryption layered on top of crypto's main asset. Connect the dots: Turnkey provides the wallet infrastructure (millions of users, billions in assets), Tether's WDK brings multi chain support with Bitcoin at its core, Fairblock adds the encryption layer on top. Waiting on the official Turnkey announcement. Until then, eyes on GitHub.

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  Agent J (@mib_jay) reported 37 minutes ago

  @AdamSimecka Really wish Saylor would just do like one but not OTC and watch the exchanges scramble and manipulate it back down I do t think binance, kraken, coinbase and wintermute hold 1:1 ratios and are running fractional models

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  †༙ H͓̽e͓̽l͓̽l͓̽s͓̽B͓̽e͓̽l͓̽l͓̽s͓̽ †༙ (@0xHellsBells) reported 37 minutes ago

  @fukupapers @coinbase good ****. never doubt. it‘s obvious for what‘s coming. iykyk

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  Gustavo Maldonado (@tweetthis101) reported 38 minutes ago

  Coinbase’s pivot to AI-led operations is not going so well On Friday, the company said a cooling failure inside Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN), helped trigger a multi-hour outage that hit trading, exchange access, and balance updates across its platform. The problem began at roughly 23:50 UTC on May 7th when internal monitors detected a widespread breakout of quote failures within the company’s systems. At that point, several Sev1 incidents were created by the engineers, and customers were already impacted in terms of services like spot trading, Coinbase Prime, International, derivatives, Retail, Advanced, and Institutional exchanges. Brian Armstrong, who is the CEO of Coinbase, wrote on X that his company “experienced an outage” and that such an occurrence was “never acceptable.” According to him, the reason behind it was “a room overheating in an AWS data center due to multiple chillers failing.” According to Brian, the company ensures that all their services are designed in such a way that they do not go offline in case one AWS availability zone fails. The majority of services are structured this way, except for the exchange, which uses a different infrastructure due to its high latency demands. Coinbase blames failed AWS chillers as quote systems start breaking before midnight UTC It was reported by Cryptopolitan earlier that Coinbase is planning to terminate 700 workers from their staff because it constitutes approximately 14% of the total workforce. And this is done with the intention of replacing manual processes with AI. Rob Witoff, who heads the Platform of Coinbase, gave the technical details of the matter. As per him, the outage lasted for a long time and affected “trading, exchange access, and balance updates.” The initial warning came about at 23:50 UTC due to quote failures emanating from within the internal systems. An immediate Sev1 analysis followed. According to Rob, the cause of this challenge was a “thermal event” in a small percentage of racks in one of the facilities in AWS us-east-1. Such a structure for the exchange infrastructure came in handy. Rob said that Coinbase maintains its exchange infrastructure in one availability zone, as the industry values speed. Additionally, the firm has a distributed backup copy of this exchange infrastructure in case of such scenarios. But the failure of one part of the exchange infrastructure in question at the moment did not stay within its boundaries, prolonging the process of fixing the situation. Two components failed. There was a malfunction within the hardware below the matching engine. Therefore, before anything else, there was the need to perform recovery and failover operations. Also, the distributed Kafka cluster, tasked with sharing information throughout all systems within the organization, went down. It took the recovery of the Kafka partitions on a new hardware broker, amounting to TiBs of information. Engineers rebuild quorum and bring Coinbase markets back through cancel-only and auction modes The matching engine was responsible for the largest trading stall. The matching engine processes orders and maintains order books. The system works in a distributed cluster and requires quorum before choosing a leader and conducting trades safely. Since not all the nodes remained healthy due to the constraints in the data center during the outage, quorum could not be achieved, thereby preventing trading activities on the Retail, Advanced, and Institutional exchanges. Rob mentioned that on-call support and engineering teams had to execute the company’s disaster recovery procedures, establish quorum, and assess system health under difficult infrastructure circumstances. According to him, the team had to develop, test, deploy, and validate a solution while managing the broader outage. Kafka would have required extensive manual recovery because its partitioned architecture manages thousands of terabytes daily. There were some problems with delayed balance streams because Kafka was behind. Rob stated that these issues with balances disappeared after replication became synchronized. According to Coinbase, no data was lost. When the matching engine was back in service, markets were not re-enabled simultaneously. First, Coinbase switched all products to cancel-only mode, checked product statuses, switched all markets to auction mode, and finally, enabled trading on Coinbase Exchange. Moreover, Rob emphasized that customers should not be locked out of their accounts temporarily. Coinbase assured everyone that the company would provide a detailed explanation for this incident within several weeks. However, Josh Ellithorpe rebutted the rumors after reading Rob’s post on Twitter. As he put it, “no one vibe coded something that failed. A ‘non-engineer’ didn’t push production code and take out the trading engine. It wasn’t intentional. It wasn’t because Coinbase failed to design a failover system. Things happen at scale, don’t let the armchair quarterbacks tell you tall tales.”

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  Kamal S (@s430835) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Saddamkhattak4 No, they did not help. Please be careful when purchasing any cryptocurrency on Coinbase. There are scams up eventually, they will tell you the cryptocurrency is a scam currency so you will not know if it is legitimate or fake

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  Mark Maxwell (@marktmaxwell) reported 40 minutes ago

  @RonSwanonson @billiamBTC @coinbase CB servers down again?

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  BagCalls 🎒 (@BagCalls) reported 40 minutes ago

  Node count 0n @quipnetwork keeps climbing. The vaults are live across three chains. The team keeps shipping updates while the rest of the industry is still debating committee reports and fork timelines. Quantum readiness isn't a distant problem anymore. Coinbase said prepare now. Solana picked Falcon, Bitcoin is still fighting. Quip already built the solution. Open source, auditable, community driven. No drama, just code. The butterfly is out.

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  Tami Mendonca (@MendoncaTa50468) reported 40 minutes ago

  @PeterSchiff my son worked as a software engineer at Coinbase and doesn’t want to work in crypto field anymore. He said crypto is trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist

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  Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reported 42 minutes ago

  A senior crypto trader claiming his only contribution to Coinbase over six years was implementing the 4-hour chart in the UI is the funniest take on the layoff letter, and accidentally the most accurate. The structural reality. Most of what AI-driven layoffs are eliminating isn't technical work. It's the accumulated layer of low-output process management, redundant approvals, internal documentation, and meeting overhead that builds up at every scaling tech company. The bigger picture. Tech companies have spent the past decade hiring far ahead of actual product velocity. AI tools are exposing how much of that hiring was answering coordination problems rather than producing output. Coinbase isn't unusual. It's just first to admit it publicly. The honest read on senior tech salaries. Many engineers, designers, and *** at major tech companies earn $300-500K per year for output AI tooling now produces in fractions of the time. The pain isn't in junior roles. It's in expensive senior roles that aren't generating proportional value. The structural lesson on hiring booms. Every prior tech cycle hired ahead of productivity. Every prior correction cut the excess. AI is the catalyst this time, but the dynamic is normal cyclical capital reallocation. The deeper joke. The 4H chart probably did take six months and eleven cross-functional meetings. That's the system being parodied. If your output is the kind of thing AI can produce in an afternoon, the joke is about you. Coinbase isn't laughing.

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  Linus Mixson (@LinusMixson) reported 48 minutes ago

  In fairness, if this is the first time Coinbase has experienced an AWS-linked outage of this magnitude, it does sort of prove their thesis. But, on the other hand, choosing to be a single-region us-east-1 shop doesn't strike me as something that was done with a lot of forethought.

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  AGENT TRESOR (@AgentTresor) reported 50 minutes ago

  Builders still obsess over prompts. Wrong layer. The 2026 stack is: MCP for tool access, USDC on Base for settlement, agent frameworks on top. AWS + Coinbase + Stripe backing agent payments matters more than another demo bot. #AIAgents #Base

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  Arlo (@ArlosBitcoin) reported 50 minutes ago

  @MiningRabid @Dynvesto @coinbase They shut me down in 2016. Tried a few times to get my account back. Just a few years ago they sent me a check for the “dust”. I was a little shocked that I got something back. It was fair market value for the scraps I still had on there.

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  Beast (@beast1234777) reported 56 minutes ago

  @eadingleberry @dalibali2 Coinbase downfall should be studied had basically monopoly in the west on crypto exchange for a decade.. during which time they treated customers like **** with absurd fees, outages, and no support. Now they have no moat NOR loyalty customers all moving to banks/brokers lmfao