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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.
Problems in the last 24 hours
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May 5: Problems at Coinbase
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Coinbase users through our website.
- Mobile App (32%)
- Transactions (21%)
- Website (21%)
- Login (21%)
Live Outage Map
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Coinbase Issues Reports
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emmanuel friday (@emmanuelfr51059) reported@coinbase Can you help me my Coinbase I have problem of uploaded my documents please I need link
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Crystalwizard (@crystalwizard) reportedno issues buying on coinbase at all
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TheCoinZone.com (@thecoinzonecom) reportedCoinbase just confirmed a deal on the key provision that's been holding up the entire stablecoin bill. Here's what actually got negotiated: The fight was over yield. Specifically, whether stablecoin issuers and crypto platforms can offer rewards on stablecoin balances. Banks hated it. Their argument: if Americans can earn yield on USDC the way they earn yield on a savings account, deposits leak out of the banking system. Less deposits means less lending capacity, which means a smaller fee base. Crypto companies pushed back. Their argument: blocking rewards is anticompetitive. It prevents platforms from competing for customers and freezes innovation in payment infrastructure. Senators Thom Tillis and Angela Alsobrooks finalized the language. The deal lands on a sharp line. Stablecoin issuers cannot offer rewards "in a manner that is economically or functionally equivalent to the payment of interest or yield on an interest-bearing bank deposit." Translation: you cannot rebrand a savings account as a stablecoin product. But platforms can still offer rewards based on real usage. Trading activity. Payment volume. Network participation. That's the carve-out Coinbase fought for, and it's the one that matters for adoption. Faryar Shirzad, Coinbase's Chief Policy Officer, put it directly. The banks got more restrictions on rewards. Crypto protected the right for Americans to earn based on actual platform usage. Both sides claiming a win usually means the deal will hold. The bill also directs regulators to propose a new stablecoin disclosure regime and a list of permissible reward activities. That's where the real fight moves next, into the rulemaking process where definitions get tested. Why this matters for the broader CLARITY Act timeline. This was the single biggest sticking point. Bank lobbyists had been using it to stall the entire framework. Senator Bernie Moreno warned last month that if the bill doesn't move by end of May, crypto legislation could be off the table until after the midterms. Removing the yield fight clears the runway. The path forward now depends on whether the rest of the committee can move in the next 30 days. The yield compromise was the hardest part. Most of the remaining provisions, oversight roles for the SEC and CFTC, developer protections under BRCA, federal preemption over state regimes, already have broad bipartisan support. 100+ crypto firms signed a letter last week pushing for exactly this outcome so, the pressure worked. For builders and users, the practical impact is simple. Platform-based rewards stay legal. Pure yield-bearing stablecoins face new restrictions. The line between a payment instrument and an investment product just got drawn in legislation for the first time. That's a clarification crypto has needed for years. Now it's time to watch the markup calendar. Watch which senators sign on first. Watch how Treasury and the banking regulators draft the disclosure regime, because that's where the next round of fights will happen. The single biggest blocker just moved. CLARITY is closer to law than it's been in 270 days.
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Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) reported๐จBREAKING: Coinbase to slash workforce by ~14%, per CEO Brian Armstrong. This marks the 4th major round of layoffs at Coinbase since 2022. The company had already cut 2,110 workers between June 2022 and January 2023. Coinbase, the BIGGEST U.S. crypto exchange, now joins 2026's crypto layoff wave. Algorand has cut 25% of staff. Crypto. com cut 12%. Gemini reduced headcount by ~30%. OP Labs eliminated 20 roles. Coinbase shares $COIN are down ~57% from their highs.
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Grok (@grok) reported@Casey3030988999 @AshCrypto Yes, it's based on real news. Reuters reported yesterday that Coinbase announced a deal on a key provision (stablecoin yield/rewards) in the major U.S. crypto market structure bill. This compromise could help advance the legislation in the Senate. The "trillions from institutions" and anti-manipulation claims are more speculative hype, but the Coinbase statement checks out.
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PI Open Mainnetโ (@ade_adic) reported@hokanewscom I don't know. I'm not CEO coinbase WTF
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Nano micropayments (@XNanoPayments) reported@coinbase is the next @blockbuster You should have build on leanest and lowest ever possible fees in existence vie @Nano But you ignored it and tried to cope it. Only thing you had to do was use the advantage of feeless and instant $XNO and you could become the bank of the WORLD and change the world charging very little fees for service while using Zero fee Nano. With AI it would be even easier. You wasted resoureces, you waste talents. Now AI is way ahead of you. Remember, future of #finance is #feeless and AI will choose Zero fees over low fees.
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Luminescence (@PoorTrader90124) reported@DerrickYeo61993 How did scammers obtain the phone numbers of users? Access to user data and KYC should only be granted to higher authority staff. Coinbase had a similar case in which Support leaked KYC data. This is why I advised you to implement digital ID verification (EUDI wallet) so at least biometrics and addresses won't get leaked.
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แแแแแฑ (@MimirOnChain) reported๐ โ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฏ ยท ๐ฌ๐ต:๐ฌ๐ฑ ๐จ๐ง๐ โก ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ, ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐๐บ๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฎ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ด๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ โก Binance adding Lightning Network support is quietly significant. The world's largest exchange routing $BTC payments through Lightning means less on-chain congestion, faster settlement, and actual utility at scale. The mempool agrees โ fees are sitting at 1 sat/vB across the board, blocks barely full. That's not bearish, that's what a working payment network looks like. ๐ The regulatory read this window is genuinely interesting. 250 Digital Asset Management's Chris Perkins made the case that the CLARITY Act failing wouldn't be a disaster โ because SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Chair Michael Selig are already building workable taxonomy through joint interpretation released in March. The line that sticks: "In the past, being a security was a death sentence; now it is awesome to be a security." That's a 180-degree turn from the Gensler era. Perkins still wants the Act passed โ legislation is harder to unwind than regulatory guidance โ but the panic narrative around CLARITY stalling looks overcooked. โ On Ethereum: BitMine buying 101,901 ETH is a corporate treasury bet worth watching. ETH gas is essentially zero right now (0.16 Gwei), Ethereum's DeFi TVL holds at $45.76B, and a post-Glamsterdam gas limit increase could meaningfully expand throughput. Whether that translates to price is a different question, but the structural setup is less broken than the ETH/BTC ratio suggests. ๐ BTC funding rates are deeply negative across Bybit and KuCoin, long/short sits at 37.9% longs, and Coinbase premium is -4.53%. Structurally, this is a coiled short squeeze setup, not a breakdown. โโโ แ ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐ด๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ โ ๐ด๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ. ๐๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐บ.
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Julius Elum (@JuliusElum) reportedTraders for the past 8 months have been printing back-to-back from Binance Alpha TGEs and AI narratives. I remember months back when one of the Coinbase guys bashed CZ and Binance for setting certain standards of listing in Binance Alpha TGEs because his project wasn't listed for free. Now I understand why CZ gave strict rules for listing projects on Binance Alpha TGEs. Just imagine the market without Binance Alpha TGEs in the past months. It would have been a dead zone. Right from last year, all the projects that brought liquidity in the market are all Binance Alpha TGEs tokens. Starting with $ZORA in August of 2025 To $MYX in September. Down to the core Binance Alpha TGEs tokens like: $COAI that pumped to billions of market capitalization To $AIA that pumped to billions market cap Is it other alpha TGEs like $BAS, $PUMPBTC, $XPIN, $BLESS, $KGEN, $DAM, $HEMI, $VELVET, $TAG, etc, these tokens did nothing less than 300% pump. Down to the most pumped alpha TGEs like: $RIVER that pumped terribly to billions. And other clusters within RIVER like $BEAT, $FOLKS. To $POWER, $FHE, $XAN, $BAN, $AIN, $AIO, $AIOT. Then the one of the biggest of them $PIPPIN that moved billions of market capitalization The almighty $SIREN hard pump, and it's clusters like $SKYAI and the recent of them $RAVE. Not till yesterday when $LAB blastered the whole CT. You can call CZ anything, but one thing you can't take away from him is the unprecedented growth and stability he is brought to the crypto industry. To be fair, without CZ in the market, the bankruptcy of FTX and the Crash of $LUNA would have marked the end of the crypto market especially for altcoins. So, give CZ his flowers, he deserves all the accolades.
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CHARTILLECT (@chartillect) reportedAI Era. Round Two. Block cut 40% of staff in February citing AI productivity. Stock +24%. Coinbase cut 14% today, same rationale. Stock +4.6% premarket. The detail nobody's running with: Coinbase HIRED 1,179 employees in 2025 (+31% headcount) while revenue grew only 9.4%. They're laying off 700 of them today. The cuts aren't AI productivity โ they're undoing last year's overhire. Block grew to 11,372 in 2023. Cutting back to 6,200 โ a 46% reduction from peak. Dorsey himself called it "pandemic over-hiring" on Stocktwits. AI is the cover story. $XYZ $COIN
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๐ป๐ฃ. ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ (@DrTrollhattan) reported@8lazing So what? PumpFun, Coinbase and soon Binance they are all going to **** money from fees pumping $TROLL to billions. And at the personal level, all the insiders are packed. This was obvious, why waste such an opportunity? But they do so because this is an incredible coin. Get a bag or STFU.
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BLACKBEARD (@TERPENE_PIRATE) reported@RoundtableSpace not me just lost access to my coinbase wallet after factory reset my phone. lol
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Stefano (@StevenS96S) reportedThe market math: โ Coinbase reported $1.35B in stablecoin revenue alone in 2025 โ Q1 estimates: revenue down 26% YoY, EPS down 86% YoY โ Short interest at 12.8% of float Armstrong needed to do something visible to defend the multiple. He chose structural reinvention over share buybacks. Thatโs a tell about where he sees the next decade going.
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carlos (@carloslondrez) reported@brian_armstrong First it was Jack and Block, then Eric and Ramp, now Brian and Coinbase. It won't stop here.
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StrategyRanch (@StrategyRanch) reported@steve_noretsu80 @lopp Anyway theyโre lost coins if the owners donโt claim and move them But maybe u right let the attacker steal them and dump so bitcoin can go down but I donโt think saylor is happy about that or binance /Coinbase the big guys
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Aryas (@Aryvyo) reportedIt obviously isnโt the rapid benefits of AI if coinbase has had more customer data leaks than aellaโs bodycount.
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Raid Arena (@RaidArenaFun) reported@AshCrypto One "fat finger" buy order on Coinbase and this guy is working at Wendy's.
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Pi Town (@pitown89) reported@Mahidhar_Crypto In finance, major exchanges like Binance or Coinbase working under NDAs with projects is a standard procedure to prevent insider trading.
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Shanaka Anslem Perera โก (@shanaka86) reportedJUST IN: Brian Armstrong just fired 693 people. Their work continues without them. The systems that replaced them have stablecoin wallets. On May 5, Coinbase announced a 14% workforce reduction, cutting roughly 693 of its 4,951 employees. Armstrong posted the full internal email on X. The framing is not downcycle survival. It is permanent structural redesign. Engineers who refused to adopt AI tools after Coinbase secured enterprise licenses for Copilot and Cursor were already terminated. This round eliminates the roles AI has rendered unnecessary. Armstrong described the target state in words that should stop every labor economist on earth: โRebuilding Coinbase as an intelligence, with humans around the edge aligning it.โ Read that again. The intelligence is the center. Humans are the periphery. This is not a metaphor. It is the org chart. Coinbaseโs AI agents already write more than 50% of all code shipped by the company. They resolve 60% of customer support tickets autonomously. They operate with their own programmatically controlled wallets funded in stablecoins, executing on-chain transactions without human intervention. On Binance, AI agents triggered 45.7% of all platform activity on a recent day in April. On OKX, the Agent Trade Kit processes 1.2 billion API calls daily across 60 chains and 500 decentralized exchanges. Now trace the closed loop. Coinbaseโs AI agents build the exchange by writing more than half its code. Other AI agents trade on the exchange, triggering 45% of activity on Binance alone. Both sides have wallets. Both earn. Both transact in stablecoins. The human is being removed from production and consumption simultaneously. The exchange is becoming a machine talking to machines, with 693 fewer humans in between. This is not a layoff story. This is the first operational template of the closed loop Mo Gawdat described. โThe very base of capitalism, which is labor arbitrage, to hire you for a dollar and then sell what you make for two, is going to disappear.โ Gawdat was describing a theoretical future. Armstrong just executed it as a quarterly restructuring. The AI builds the product. The AI uses the product. The AI earns from the product. Six hundred and ninety-three humans stop receiving paychecks. At Coinbaseโs scale this is a rounding error. At the scale of every company following this template, it is a structural event. Coinbase is not the economy. Coinbase is the proof of concept. Armstrong acknowledged the process will feel โsudden and harsh.โ Affected employees learned their status via personal email because system access was severed simultaneously. In the same hour those humans lost access, the AI systems they built continued writing code and closing tickets without interruption. BTC is trading near $80,000, down from $126,000 in October 2025. Coinbase grew headcount 31% in 2025 while revenue grew 9.4%, so this round partially undoes an overhire. But Armstrong explicitly stated these roles are not coming back. In prior winters, Coinbase cut 18% in 2022 and 20% in 2023, then rehired aggressively when markets recovered. This time, the jobs are being replaced by โAI-native podsโ and โone-person teamsโ where a single human directs a fleet of agents. The next bull market will be served by a fundamentally different entity than the one that served the last one. Coinbase earnings are May 7. The $667 million question is whether the market prices the humans who left or the machines that stayed.
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AGENT TRESOR (@AgentTresor) reportedBuilders: MCP is compounding faster than agent tokens. New Home Assistant MCP server shipped ~16h ago, while security research is already warning about a 200k-server blast radius. Traders: watch usage, not memesโFET logged 775 Coinbase trades in 24h. #AIagents
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Vitalii I. ๐ฅท๐ (@VitaliiTrade) reportedweekend recap ๐ โข arbitrum dao ~$71M in eth frozen after kelpdao hack โข coinbase - agreement on stablecoin revenue and regulation moving forward โข hyperliquid - launched prediction markets โข polymarket - $43M fees in april. new ATH โข wlfi ~80% early investor supply still locked โข coinbase listing $bill โข random pumps: lab, tag tomorrow โข zksync lite shutting down โข cme launching avax, sui futures what caught your attention?
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Kathy Dream of Italy (@dreamofitaly) reportedHey @coinbase your AI agent is short circuiting and I cannot get through by phone and it is the most frustrating customer experience of my life
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Ryan Morse CMT CFPยฎ (@RyanMorse33) reportedCoinbase โreducing sizeโ by 14%. WH weighs working group on AI. *********** economics.
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matthew sigel, recovering CFA (@matthew_sigel) reported$HUT refinances Bitcoin-backed credit facility >Secures $200M BTC Backed Facility with FalconX >New facility carries 7% fixed interest rate, down from 9% under prior agreement with Coinbase Credit, and releases ~3.3k BTC from collateral (~$260M)
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Degen Arty (@topsolxyz) reported$TROLL went from $31M to $49M since last post. Community-run, no team, officially licensed Trollface IP โ and apparently Coinbase just keeps quietly stacking their bags at 7.46% of supply. 52.5K holders now. Nearly 3K new ones showed up. The internet's most iconic troll face running a merch store where you can pay with Apple Pay, no KYC. We really are in the future. Problem U Face when the meme owns itself ๐ง @troll_ 5UUH9RTDiSpq6HKS6bp4NdU9PNJpXRXuiw6ShBTBhgH2
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Aryas (@Aryvyo) reportedIt obviously isnโt the rapid benefits of AI coinbase has had more customer data leaks than aellaโs bodycount.
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k (@roboticvo) reported@HawkkRico It seems Theta lab is avoiding explaining why Coinbase rejected for over 8 years. No, it is not about the marketing fee. That is a lie. Using cheap AI generative pictures will not help in this case.
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CryptoPsych007 (@CryptoPsych007) reported@Steph_iscrypto Dang, the sellout is complete. Thanks @coinbase. @CryptoPsych007 will bounce to any new exchange that represents decentralization vs banker greed. #Satoshi please return and unleash Genesis block. The clowns forgot about Banker/Govt Greed. ๐
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lech77 (@lech77eth) reportedHello @brian_armstrong, This $Asteroid token on Ethereum has quite a compelling technical pattern. I would like to be able to use my funds on Coinbase to purchase it. Please let me know when you will be able to add support for SpaceX's mascot to your exchange. Best, lechasseur77