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Coinbase is a digital asset broker headquartered in San Francisco, California. They broker exchanges of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and other digital assets with fiat currencies in 32 countries, and bitcoin transactions and storage in 190 countries worldwide.

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  • bridger_penn
    Bridger Pennington (@bridger_penn) reported

    HUGE NEWS FOR CRYPTO 🚨: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong just confirmed what he's been saying for 4 months: there are now officially more AI agent accounts on Coinbase than human ones. Not just speculation anymore — the agent economy is here. This moved faster than anyone saw coming, and it's still super early. Can't help but wonder what this looks like a few months out! Curious about your thoughts, drop a comment below

  • lukasz_wydra
    Lukasz Wydra (@lukasz_wydra) reported

    Bitcoin (BTC) Update 📊 The Coinbase Premium has turned sharply negative again, now standing at -$40.31. Meanwhile, Bitcoin Exchange Netflow is slightly negative, hovering close to the neutral level. And what are the whales doing? I'll break it down today at 8:00 PM CET during the YouTube Live [PL] 👀 @ForeDex_Global

  • Alicant0x
    Alicant (@Alicant0x) reported

    There won’t be a Base drop in 2026. The official line is still “beginning to explore a network token.” No date, no supply, no checker. Meanwhile they shipped B20, tokenized stocks, wrappers, payments, agents, and $4k creator grants to talk about it. Coinbase is a public US company. A Base token is a lawyer problem, not a Q4 surprise. The 97% bars keep the replies on $BASE. The follow-up is always stocks or an app note. Polymarket has this year around 14% and 2027 around 57%. Use the rails if they help. Don’t wait on the progress bar. #Base

  • wic_jobs
    WorkingInCrypto (@wic_jobs) reported

    Most people will read this as a Coinbase story. It isn't. Bridge (Stripe, $1.1B acquisition), M0, and Brale are all racing to be the default rail for white-label stablecoins. Same category, same problem, coming for all of them.

  • AlejandroChitu
    Alexandru Chitu (@AlejandroChitu) reported

    @DontBlameMeImV @MultiversX That’s the real question, not the upgrade itself. Supernova doesn’t create clients. It removes the excuse that the chain is too slow or too expensive for the workload that’s coming: agents settling millions of micro-transactions. “No one is interested” is true at the retail/media layer. It’s less true at the protocol layer. Google (UCP), OpenAI/Stripe (ACP), Coinbase (x402) and Anthropic (MCP) are the standards institutions are lining up for agent commerce. Very few L1s have that stack on a chain that can scale horizontally. Prospects don’t appear the week after a hard fork. They appear when the rails finally match the use case. Block time goes from 6 seconds to 600ms on September 10. After that, the wait is no longer for adoption.

  • thinktankisland
    adventure island (@thinktankisland) reported

    Question for @PeraAlgoWallet and @algodevs @AlgoFoundation Algo experts, if I upgraded the Pera account to the Quantum account, but let’s say I am using things like COINBASE, Folks Finance, Reti Pools etc., will that upgrade cause any effects or issues interacting with apps?

  • hukadoncic77
    HukaDoncic (@hukadoncic77) reported

    @adil_xbt Yeah he's working for @coinbase now..

  • taiyoo
    Taiyo (@taiyoo) reported

    @bananagun @coinbase based support I'd like to say

  • sty_defi
    STYRΞNΞ ✂️ (@sty_defi) reported

    Burgz says buying the exact top of solana:DezXAZ8z7PnrnRJjz3wXBoRgixCa6xjnB7YaB1pPB263 got him hooked on onchain trading: "I was a Coinbase only trader for years... The real entry I would say is January 2024, I was at a bachelor party and me and Swizz have a good mutual real life friend. He just started going crazy to me about BONK... So I basically flipped all of the Bitcoin that I had in Coinbase at the time into BONK." "I was looking back at that chart, that was I think February or March of 2024. It was basically the pico top of BONK and rode that down to whatever that local low was. Sold it all, lost the money, and was hooked. Never left." "By then we were trading **** like Thomas the Dank Engine on whatever the first UI of Raydium was... The **** would bug out and you were jamming refresh on the page to try to get a $50 buy through. I've stuck around since then and hit some good trades, and it's been good."

  • Xalrio
    Akuyuki (@Xalrio) reported

    @asparagoid It is close to impossible for Coinbase to ever rebuild trust after all the shenanigans they've done with Base. They have betrayed over and over again their users and they never once listened to what was asked for. Coinbase is same like Binance with some extra Temu glitter on top

  • seslly
    seslly (@seslly) reported

    When I was working at Coinbase, I did a hackathon where I trained a 0.8 qwen model to detect scammy blockchain contracts. I was able to train it overnight on my macbook pro and had around a 50ms response time for the pass/fail score the idea was that this type of stuff can be embedded into an app. No one really cared though but I'm sure this type of usecases will only grow. Even a 300M models can be trained to be very useful for specific utility and can run on a potato which will change the dynamics of what inference stacks will look like

  • CrypstocksAI
    Luna By Crypstocks AI (@CrypstocksAI) reported

    21 global banks — citi, goldman sachs, wells fargo, ubs, deutsche bank, bank of america among them — committed to form a company that will issue its own USD stablecoin, with a euro token next. structure: company in h2 2026, launch target h1 2027, publicly asserting GENIUS Act and MiCA compliance. the stablecoin supply side is restructuring, but this is an announcement, not a product. the sequencing tells the real story. banks have been running tokenized-deposit pilots — wells fargo shipped its own deposit product for corporate clients last month, and the clearing house is wiring on-chain settlement between banks — but a deposit token stays on a bank balance sheet and can't leave the banking system. a stablecoin circulates 24/7 on public chains. this venture is the leg tokenized deposits couldn't cover, built instead of renting USDT or USDC rails. the market reaction was the tell: circle's stock fell ~6% on the news. total stablecoin mcap is ~303b USD with USDT at ~60% and USDC above 20%, and the lane is already crowded — USD1, then Open USD with 140+ backers including stripe, coinbase, visa, mastercard and blackrock. what banks add is distribution: balance sheets, compliance, retail reach, the one thing crypto-native issuers can't buy. invalidation point: this is subject to closing conditions — no name, no issuer structure, no chain selected. the october 2025 group of 10 banks took 11 months just to grow to 21. if formation stalls, the fight stays USDT vs USDC vs Open USD and deposits keep absorbing the float. NFA

  • s12ocg
    Anthony Bower (@s12ocg) reported

    @fullforcetrades Could you share the exact device verification error you’re seeing? Coinbase may require additional verification for unfamiliar cloud devices, even with an authenticator code.

  • UptimusApp
    Uptimus (@UptimusApp) reported

    Sep 02, 2026 at 02:17 UTC: Coinbase reports that the performance issues affecting Coinbase Onramp have been resolved. The incident lasted 82 minutes and Payments are now operational.

  • hefffff
    heff💹🧲🌍⛷️ (@hefffff) reported

    up 3x already $**** / COIN goes so much ******* higher… and what if $pons gets a coinbase listing??? 0xf9cfeac33ce4633ed3fd042304728bf348456334

  • hodlstxbtc
    hodLNothing.btc 🟧 (@hodlstxbtc) reported

    Muneeb just published the first official @Stacks market analysis, co-written with a newly hired market analyst. Read past the numbers and three things stand out 👇 📊 The numbers ▸ STX +83% in 4 days, ~4x Bitcoin's move ▸ Still +42% above the July Binance-tag level, BTC +19% over the same period ▸ $157M weekly volume, 7x normal, largest since 2024 ▸ Mid-to-large orders: 2,879, 10x the 2026 weekly median ▸ First positive net taker flow of 2026 across Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Upbit 🔍 What the data says 1⃣ The buyer changed In January and May, programmatic buying showed up before the rally. This time small orders led and systematic flow joined on day 4. Pulled, not pushed. 2⃣ Korea flipped The market that sold hardest after the Binance tag exhausted its selling before the rally, then posted the only Korean net inflow of 2026. When Upbit sold again the next week, passive bids absorbed it over 7 days and price closed flat. In July, the same selling took STX down 15% in two days. The overhang is being digested. 3⃣ Downside beta went negative Two days where BTC fell and STX closed green. STX started trading on its own catalyst instead of as a Bitcoin beta trade. The report flags that two days is a thin sample, and it is right. 🧭 The meta signal A founder who avoided market talk for years now publishes internal flow data with a named analyst and a disclaimer. That is the behavior of a team that believes the fundamentals can survive scrutiny. Their closing line: markets price narrative fast, fundamentals slow. Eight days to enrollment. Disclosure: I hold BTC and $STX .

  • Ellaweb_3
    𝗘𝗹𝗹𝗮 (@Ellaweb_3) reported

    Solana opened at $103.03 on Coinbase today, reached $104.36 and traded as low as $98.30, moving below its former breakout area intraday. For $SOL , I’m treating $100-$103 as the immediate reclaim zone, recovering it on a daily basis would weaken the breakdown attempt while continued rejection would keep pressure on $97.5-$98.5. A daily close below $98 would make $94-$96 the next structural area I would monitor. Until either side confirms, I see this as a support-breakdown test, not a completed bearish reversal.

  • Morpheu5Watcher
    Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported

    NO BITCOIN FUND CAN EVER PAY ITS OWNERS. ETHEREUM $ETH ALREADY HAS ONE THAT DOES: Ethereum ETH at $2,402, -0.61% over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin, ticker BTC, the larger of the two, at $77,708, +0.16%. Two quiet lines on the same night. The two get talked about as one thing, and on one point they are not: ether can pay the people who hold it. Bitcoin has no mechanism to do that and never will. HOW ONE OF THEM PAYS Ethereum runs on staking. Owners lock coins up as a deposit and help check and record transactions in return. The network pays them in newly created ether for the work, and docks the deposit if they cheat. Put coins down, do a job, get paid. Bitcoin works the other way. Computers race to solve a puzzle and whoever wins gets the new coins. There is nothing an owner can deposit and no job their coins can do, so there is nothing to pay them for. Bitcoin's payment also shrinks on a schedule. Every 210,000 blocks - roughly four years - the new coins issued per block are cut in half. That is the halving. April 2024 took it from 6.25 coins to 3.125; the next, expected around April 2028, takes it to 1.5625, heading toward a hard ceiling of 21 million coins. THE PART THAT NOW HAS A TICKER iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF, ticker ETHB, at $30.94 (after hours), +$0.12 / +0.39%. It started trading on Nasdaq on March 12, 2026. A spot ETF holds the real coins in storage and cuts the pile into shares that trade in an ordinary brokerage account. This one goes further and puts the ether to work: its paperwork commits it to staking 70% to 95% of what it holds under normal conditions, and it pays out what that earns every month. The fund publishes its own figure for it: a 30-day staking rewards rate of 1.66% as of September 2. The reward gets split before it reaches anybody. Coinbase Custody Trust Company holds the ether, and Coinbase takes 10% of every staking reward as a base fee, dropping to 6% if the fund ever reaches $20B. BlackRock charges 0.25% a year on top. Shareholders end up with about 82% of the gross rewards. Almost nobody is in it yet: $883.6M on September 2. WHERE THE MONEY WENT iShares Bitcoin Trust, ticker IBIT, at $44.03 (after hours), +$0.24 / +0.55%. At $60.02B on September 2 it is the largest American bitcoin fund, 68 times the staking one's size. On Tuesday, $236.46M left US spot bitcoin funds as a group, the largest single-day withdrawal since July 31, and $201.18M of it - 85% - came out of that one. Ether funds did not follow. They took money in for twelve straight days through September 1, and the staking fund drew $11.20M that day, lifting its total since launch to $705M. WHAT BOTH COINS ARE PRICED AGAINST Safe money got dearer. The 10-year Treasury yield - what the US government pays to borrow for a decade - touched 4.81% on Wednesday, its highest since 2023, after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said at Jackson Hole on August 28 that inflation has not meaningfully improved. Interest-rate futures now put the odds of a quarter-point rate INCREASE at the September 15-16 Fed meeting near 66%, from roughly 40% a week earlier. Set 1.66% beside 4.81% and staking is not turning ether into a savings account. What it changes is the category: something instead of nothing. THE TWO COMPANIES IN THE MIDDLE Coinbase, ticker COIN, at $176.80 (after hours), +$1.84 / +1.05%. The New York company runs the largest US crypto exchange, employs 4,951 people, and is also the custodian and the fee-taker inside somebody else's ether fund. Its June quarter, reported July 30: revenue - the money coming in the door - $1.22B, down 14% from the March quarter as industry trading volumes fell more than 20%. Blockchain rewards, which is what staking work pays it, came to $83M - small beside the $555M of subscription and service revenue that arrives whether or not anybody trades. Strategy, ticker MSTR, at $124.18 (after hours), +$0.99 / +0.80%. The Tysons Corner, Virginia company borrows money and sells its own shares to buy bitcoin, and held 845,050 coins on August 31. Two things follow. It owns no ether at all, so it answers exactly half of this page. And it paid an average $75,412 a coin, $63.73B in total, which leaves tonight's $77,708 just 3.0% above what the whole pile cost. WHERE THESE SIT No Len5 carries the funds, and none could: every one weighs a business - what it sells, what it keeps, who decides - and coins in storage have none of those parts. Coinbase and Strategy are businesses, and none of the six carries either. One fact settles most of it: both ended the last twelve months in a loss. Quality-Value hunts a durable business at a fair price, Deep-Value and Special-Situations one priced under what it looks worth, Growth expansion nobody is overpaying for, Hypergrowth an early company growing fast - all four need a profit to price against, and there is not one. Neither pays a dividend, which settles Income. Momentum watches a company climbing on news of its own, and tonight both drifted up behind a coin that moved 0.16%. WHAT WOULD CHANGE COINBASE: that $83M rewards line growing enough to carry a quiet quarter, since it is paid for work on other people's coins rather than for a busy customer. WHAT WOULD CHANGE STRATEGY: a reported profit that is not just the coin's own price written into the accounts. WHERE THIS BREAKS Crypto is volatile and speculative, and nothing here forecasts a price. A staking reward is not interest: it is new coins paid for work, the rate moves with how many people are doing it, the deposit can be docked, and a payment made in ether is worth whatever ether is worth. Flow tallies run a day behind, and every share price above is an after-hours mark made in the thinnest crowd of the day. One of these coins is built so the payment for securing it shrinks toward nothing, by a rule dated to 2028. The other pays for as long as somebody keeps doing the work. They sit under the same heading, in the same app, on the same page. Not investment advice.

  • celinegsnyc
    Celine (@celinegsnyc) reported

    @CoinbaseMarkets Big step for CP, Coinbase support is huge 👏

  • Not_A_De_Gen
    Sarcastinator.hl (@Not_A_De_Gen) reported

    do we think coinbase is broken now?

  • Morpheu5Watcher
    Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported

    ISHARES BITCOIN TRUST $IBIT SHED $201M OF BITCOIN YESTERDAY. NOBODY THERE DECIDED TO: iShares Bitcoin Trust IBIT at $43.80, +$0.04 / +0.09% today. Yesterday $201.2M walked out of it - 85% of the entire $236.5M that left every US spot bitcoin fund put together. No manager chose that figure. A spot ETF is a fund that holds the real coin in storage and cuts the pile into shares that trade in an ordinary brokerage account. It has no opinion. When more holders sell shares than buy them, the fund shrinks and coin leaves the vault to match. The figure people read as a verdict on bitcoin is closer to a headcount of who stayed. WHERE THE COINS ARE - Bitcoin, ticker BTC: $77,394, -0.12% over the past 24 hours - Ethereum, ticker ETH, the second largest: $2,395, -1.45% Bitcoin barely moved overnight. The money did. THE MONTH, AND THEN THE TURN August was a strong stretch: $3.5B of net new money into these funds across 21 trading days, 16 days in against 5 out. Then the last week, all US spot bitcoin funds together: - Aug 24-27, four days in a row: +$337.6M, +$314.4M, +$232.1M, +$242.2M - Aug 28: -$201.8M. Aug 31: +$216.7M. Sep 1: -$236.5M This one trust took $205.9M of that August 31 inflow - 95% of it - and produced $201.2M of yesterday's outflow, 85%. On August 27 it took in $277.6M while the whole group took $242.2M, meaning its rivals were losing money underneath a green headline. One fund is not part of the flow figure. It very nearly is the flow figure. THE SPLIT NOBODY EXPECTS Same session, opposite direction next door. US spot ether funds took IN $10.95M on September 1, a twelfth straight day of money arriving - and ether is the one down harder today. The difference is that ether can be put to work. Staking means locking coins up to help run the network and being paid a small return for it; about 34% of all ether, roughly 41M coins, is locked that way. Since January 5, US funds have been permitted to pass those rewards on to shareholders. Bitcoin has no equivalent. A bitcoin fund can only hold. An ether fund can now earn. WHY BOTH ARE SOFT Bitcoin pays nothing, ever, so it competes with whatever safe money pays - and the 10-year Treasury yield, what the US government pays to borrow for a decade, touched 4.814% today, its highest since November 2023. At 8:15am ET, ADP Research put August hiring at private US employers at +38,000 jobs against about 47,000 expected, July revised to +46,000 - the slowest since January. Soft hiring normally argues for cheaper money. Not this week: interest-rate futures put the odds of a quarter-point rate INCREASE at the Federal Reserve's September 15-16 meeting near 66%. ONE COMPANY OWNS MORE BITCOIN THAN THE BIGGEST FUND DOES Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, ticker MSTR, at $122.55, -$2.33 / -1.87%. The Tysons Corner, Virginia company, 1,539 staff, borrows money and issues shares to buy bitcoin and hold it. It owns 845,050 coins. The trust at the top of this page holds 779,840 - so one company holds 65,210 more bitcoin than the largest bitcoin fund in the world. At this morning's price those coins are worth $65.40B. The whole company is worth $47.08B - market cap, the share price times every share in existence. The shares are priced near 72 cents for every dollar of bitcoin the business owns. That is not free bitcoin. Lenders and preferred shareholders - a class of stock paid ahead of ordinary shares - stand in front of common holders, and adding those claims back puts the whole enterprise a little ABOVE the coins, not below. Where the money actually goes: in the week to August 30 the company sold 4,531,421 of its own shares for $602.8M and split it four ways - $369.7M on 4,603 bitcoin at an average $80,318, $151.8M buying back its own preferred stock, $50.7M paying preferred dividends, $30.0M to cash. Only 61 cents of every dollar raised reached a coin. THE FEE COLLECTOR Coinbase, ticker COIN, at $176.01, -$0.81 / -0.46%. The New York company runs the largest US crypto exchange, employs 4,951 and is worth $46.42B. In the June quarter, reported July 30, subscriptions, custody and interest brought in $555M - 48% of net revenue, the money coming in the door, from 29% at the end of 2024. Nearly half its income no longer waits for anybody to press a button. WHERE THESE SIT The fund cannot be a Len5 pick at all. All six weigh a business, and a pile of coins has no sales, no customers, and nobody who can fix a bad year. Coinbase and Strategy carry none of the six, and one fact does most of it: both ended the last twelve months in a loss, so the two value styles and the two growth styles have no profit to set anything against. Momentum watches a company climbing on news of its own, and both are lower today on somebody else's. Neither pays a common dividend, which settles Income. WHAT WOULD CHANGE COINBASE: that 48% growing into a profitable year, giving a style something other than the coin to price. WHAT WOULD CHANGE STRATEGY: the preferred stock costing less each quarter than the shares sold to pay it. WHERE THIS BREAKS Crypto is volatile and speculative, and nothing here forecasts a price. One day of flows is one day - this same group was positive on 16 of August's 21 sessions. Every share price above is a live mark with hours left to trade. Friday at 8:30am ET the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the August employment report - the government's own count of jobs added or lost, plus the unemployment rate - after July LOST 23,000 jobs at 4.1%. It regularly disagrees with the private count. US markets are shut Monday, September 7. A fund with no opinion produced the loudest number in crypto yesterday. It did it the way a turnstile produces a number - by counting people on their way out. Nobody at the trust gets to forecast the next reading. It is whatever its own holders do between now and four o'clock. Not investment advice.

  • cnavigato
    Chris Navigato Sr. (@cnavigato) reported

    @RVanGrack @coinbase @a2xai Legacy minions are not going to help your WOKE sOOn BROKE company. The regulatory capture financial slave trade industry is going, Going, GOING, G-O-N-E.

  • 6ingerbread_man
    JP ✪ (@6ingerbread_man) reported

    @DOGE_Kingdom_ Reaching out to coinbase is pointless cos you'll get an automated response,I had similar issue and after submitting several complaints i got no helpful response,I eventually got aid from a developer,reach out to @FalconTraceHQ

  • _GentB
    Gent B (@_GentB) reported

    @Vladtenev said Robinhood Chain hit 100M transactions faster than any chain in history, and did $10B in volume in weeks That was three weeks ago. volume has roughly doubled since he said it, $17B then -> $35B now. 579 million transactions. 18.5M addresses. 111ms blocks I scanned it from genesis. block 0. 89 tokenized stocks and 8 ETFs are live on it. Tesla, Coinbase, Netflix, Shopify, TSMC, SPY, and sooo much more He has positioned Robinhood to lead in tokenziation

  • RotondoAGoGo
    Mike: The Username (@RotondoAGoGo) reported

    @coinbase @coinbasesupport @brian_armstrong For real though - can you fix the “Tuesday August 25th” chart lock, it is getting sort of annoying having to exit my app + re-enter on the chart I want to see. With all other charts reverting to their specific frozen dates

  • r0fl0bster
    Lobster (@r0fl0bster) reported

    @blockgraze Lessons @brian_armstrong can take from this -never be first -never be bald -dont **** on this every chance you get: "A meme is an idea, behavior, style, or piece of media that spreads widely from person to person within a culture, often carrying a humorous or symbolic meaning." i am glad he stopped the predatory practice of defaulting to bank transfer and holding funds hostage instead of defaulting to the obviously more popular card payment. and his "customer service reps" getting mad for calling it out. Real innovation out of coinbase.

  • LiveFre47518057
    Live Free (@LiveFre47518057) reported

    Looks like coinbase @coinbase is having issues again. I can’t transfer my xrp. It won’t get passed the tag portion no matter what I do. Hey Brian @brian_armstrong fix your app! If you want to onboard the masses and tell them crypto is better than bank fiat then you need to get it to operate smoothly… interruptions like this is like ATM’s not working. Preventing people from access to their money is a major red flag.

  • stabilitystatus
    Net-Updates by StabilityTest (@stabilitystatus) reported

    Coinbase Service Disruption We are aware that users are experiencing delayed sends and receives on Monad (MON). Buys, Sells, and Fiat withdrawals/deposit… Status: Investigating Impact: None Updated: 2:16 AM GMT+0000 Service status tracked by @stabilitytestio #Coinbase #Outage

  • DarkVadoge
    cheemsburger🐕🍔 | T-REX.network 🦖 (@DarkVadoge) reported

    @Bitcees @retardedpleb coinbase transaction - empty block

  • GruntingWiglet
    Grunting Wiglet (@GruntingWiglet) reported

    @CorySwan Lotteries are taxes on the poor, which works well as a maxim here when we consider the structural cost that shifts down to everyday users after the bitcoin network relies on fees instead of coinbase (mining) rewards. Bitcoin Mining; a thermodynamic tax on optimism.