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Claims vs. Reality: What the BIS Gets Wrong About Stablecoins
The BIS once again argues that stablecoins fall short as money and threaten financial stability if they scale.

Search, Don't Browse: Agentic LLM-Powered Signal Discovery for Fraud Detection
TL;DR: When a new fraud pattern hits, figuring out which signals already exist in your data — and what new ones you should build — is a manual, time-consuming process. We built a search tool over our internal feature store and event logs that lets fraud analysts describe a new scam in plain English and quickly discover relevant signals.

System Update: Take Control of Your Money with Coinbase
Today, we’re launching several new products that further our mission of creating the Everything Exchange and being the most intelligent financial services app in the world.

Coinbase and AWS let publishers accept agents as customers via x402
TL;DR: Coinbase is working with AWS CloudFront and WAF to let the web publishers and API providers behind a quarter of the internet accept agents as customers via x402.

Coinbase Partners with MassPay to Unlock Cross-Border Stablecoin Payouts for Global Enterprises
TL;DR: MassPay is integrating Coinbase's payments infrastructure to make cross-border stablecoin payouts faster, cheaper, and more accessible for enterprise clients across the globe.

Coinbase Quantum Advisory Council: Post-Quantum Migration and Abandoned Coins

Coinbase for Agents: Your AI Agent Can Now Trade and Pay with Coinbase
TL;DR: Coinbase for Agents connects your AI agent directly to your Coinbase account so it can trade, pay, and execute workflows on your behalf, all within limits you control. Available today as an MCP and CLI.

Consumer Protection Tuesday: How Social Security and Investment Scammers Manipulate Their Victims

Coinbase Payments: A Complete Solution for Stablecoin Payments
TL;DR: Coinbase Payments offers trusted, comprehensive infrastructure for stablecoin payments – helping businesses of any size move money faster, globally, and at institutional scale.

Pre-IPOs Are Launching on Coinbase, Starting with SpaceX
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.

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

Automating Figma-to-Code at Coinbase
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
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
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
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
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
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.

Coinbase Brings Global Crypto Derivatives to US Market
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.

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