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Coinbase touts 99% cold storage as Binance says it has replaced 98% of its $6 billion-plus hack
Coinbase said it holds more than 99% of customer assets in offline cold storage and was untouched by the roughly $6.3–6.4 billion Binance breach, which Binance says it has already replenished by about 98%.
OpenUSD's fee and equity terms surface: a one-cent cap and warrants for the biggest holders
OpenUSD's governance company Open Standard will charge a 0.1-basis-point payment fee capped at one cent and offer founding partners equity based on how much of the stablecoin they hold and move, per private documents reported by CoinDesk.
Coinbase's Q3 profit jumps 66% — but a crypto-holdings gain does most of the lifting
Coinbase posted $719 million in Q3 net income, up 66% year over year, but most of the jump came from a $715 million mark-to-market gain on its own crypto holdings as revenue fell 35% from a year earlier.
Coinbase-backed study pegs stablecoin transfers at $400M an hour, mostly after the banks close
A Coinbase and The Block Pro Research study estimates stablecoins moved over $400 million per hour in organic transfers during the third quarter, with 73% of volume settling outside U.S. banking hours.
Coinbase pitches 'flexible' signature designs for Bitcoin's post-quantum migration
Coinbase published its technical priorities for Bitcoin's post-quantum migration, calling for flexible signature designs and parallel debate on abandoned coins ahead of any quantum-computing threat.
Base's Jesse Pollak pitches a tokenized-equities 'supercycle' — with most of the numbers coming from Base
At Token2049 Singapore, Base creator Jesse Pollak told The Block that tokenized equities and non-dollar stablecoins will drive the next wave of tokenization, citing Coinbase's six-week-old tokenized-stock launch and $3.3 billion in circulating supply.
U.S. Government Wallets Move $103M in Seized Bitcoin and BNB — With No Explanation
Wallets Arkham labels as U.S. government-controlled moved about $103 million in seized Bitcoin and BNB on October 6, with 833.6 BTC landing at Coinbase Prime deposit addresses, though no sale has been confirmed.
BitGo's Belshe says a failed Clarity Act leaves one-stop crypto firms a Lehman-sized risk
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe told The Block that the Senate's September rejection of the Clarity Act left U.S. markets exposed to firms combining exchange, brokerage, and custody — a concentration he said could prove worse than Lehman.
Base ships Cobalt upgrade, adding conditional transactions and an admin balance-seizure function
Coinbase-incubated Layer 2 Base activated its Cobalt mainnet upgrade on September 30, adding conditional "Validity Transactions" and new controls to its B20 token standard, including an administrator function to seize and reassign holders' balances.
Trump's Ethics Disclosure Reports Over $1.2 Billion in 2025 Crypto Earnings
A U.S. Office of Government Ethics disclosure reported this week shows President Trump earned more than $1.2 billion from crypto ventures in 2025 and holds over $50 million in Bitcoin, per Decrypt.
Coinbase Opens IPO Allocations to U.S. Retail Traders, Starting With Oura
Coinbase began offering IPO share allocations to U.S. retail traders on September 21, 2026, starting with wearables maker Oura, routed through its FINRA-registered broker-dealer Coinbase Capital Markets.
Coinbase's first production Solana contract is live, according to one engineer's post — and not much else
Coinbase engineer Richard Wu says the exchange has shipped its first production Solana smart contract, a DEX trade aggregator built by staff from its Vector acquisition, with no program ID or company confirmation yet.
Coinbase says it has an Abu Dhabi licence for tokenized securities
Coinbase says Abu Dhabi's FSRA granted it a Financial Services Permission to arrange deals in and custody tokenized securities, making the emirate its international tokenization base.
Judge to Coinbase on prediction-market preemption: 'applesauce'
A federal judge in Michigan refused to shield Coinbase from state gambling enforcement over sports event contracts, calling the exchange's federal-preemption arguments "applesauce.
Coinbase opens 24/5 US stock trading to UK users, with Apex holding the shares
Coinbase began rolling out zero-commission trading in nearly 4,000 US stocks to eligible UK users on Aug. 6, with shares custodied by Apex Clearing and orders routed through its US broker-dealer.
Mubadala Capital puts a private-markets fund onchain with $75M in commitments; Coinbase takes a stake
Mubadala Capital has tokenized a private-markets fund across Base, Solana and Sui through a provider called KAIO, drawing $75M in commitments, with Coinbase taking a stake, according to CoinDesk.
Coinbase blames July 14 outage on a 'low-risk' config change that collided with itself
Coinbase said a botched routine configuration change to a shared Kubernetes cluster caused a roughly 50-minute platform-wide outage on July 14 that halted trading, transfers and card payments.
US Government Shifts $288M in Seized Crypto to Coinbase Prime, Decrypt Reports
A wallet tied to the US government moved roughly $288 million in seized cryptocurrency to Coinbase Prime, according to Decrypt, though which assets, which case and the reason went undisclosed.
US government wallets shift $288M in seized bitcoin and ether to Coinbase Prime, per Arkham
On-chain analytics firm Arkham says U.S. government-linked wallets moved roughly 3,800 BTC and 30,007 ETH — over $288 million — to Coinbase Prime on July 13, drawn from criminal-case seizures.
Ark Invest adds ~$17M in Coinbase, Circle, Bullish and Robinhood shares on Monday rally
Ark Invest bought roughly $16.9 million in Coinbase, Circle, Bullish and Robinhood shares across three of its ETFs on Monday, June 29, as all four crypto-linked stocks rose in a broad market rally.
Coinbase Turns On Stock Trading for All U.S. Users, With a Yahoo Finance Tie-In
Coinbase now offers commission-free stock and ETF trading to all U.S. users, with 24/5 hours on leading equities and a Yahoo Finance research-to-trade integration, per the company's own announcement.
Coinbase and Better launch a crypto-backed mortgage — with a lot riding on one company's blog post
Coinbase and lender Better announced a mortgage that lets borrowers pledge Bitcoin or USDC to fund a down payment without selling it, wrapped into a Fannie Mae-backed conforming loan.
Coinbase Says It Won Conditional OCC Approval for a National Trust Charter
Coinbase says it won conditional OCC approval to charter a national trust company for its crypto custody business, stressing it won't take deposits or become a bank.
Coinbase's Q1 update leads with market share and 'annualized' product metrics — and skips the bottom line
Coinbase's Q1 2026 press release touts an 8.6% all-time-high trading market share and fast-growing derivatives, prediction markets and stablecoin volumes — but discloses no total revenue or net income, and calls the quarter's market "softer.
Coinbase brings crypto-style perpetual futures to equity indexes
Coinbase Derivatives said it would launch four cash-settled, perpetual-style equity index futures — tracking AI, Chinese ADRs, defense, and the Nasdaq top 100 — on its CFTC-regulated US exchange in June 2026.
Coinbase Launches "Pre-IPO" Perpetual Futures, Starting With a SpaceX Contract
Coinbase is offering non-US traders a USDC-settled perpetual future that tracks SpaceX's implied private valuation, issued through its Bermuda entity and barred to US persons.
Clarity Act's odds slide back toward a coin flip as the calendar, not the crypto lobby, takes over
The Clarity Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15-9, but prediction-market odds of 2026 passage have fallen from a mid-May peak near 70% to about 48% as roughly 20 legislative days remain before the August recess.