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Celer Bridge incident analysis

Celer Bridge incident analysis

On August 17, 2022, Celer Network Bridge dapp users were targeted in a front-end hijacking attack which lasted approximately 3 hours and resulted in 32 impacted victims and $235,000 USD in losses.

Engineering,

September 9, 2022,

12 min read time

Real-time reconciliation with Overseer

Real-time reconciliation with Overseer

Every day, transactions are processed by Coinbase’s payments infrastructure.

Engineering,

September 6, 2022,

9 min read time

Around the Block - 09.2022

A simple guide to the web3 developer stack

Special thanks to Mike Armstrong, Aaron Henshaw, Michael Atassi, Steven Willinger, and Shan Aggarwal for helping to inform this article.

Engineering,

September 1, 2022,

9 min read time

Building a Python ecosystem for efficient and reliable development

Building a Python ecosystem for efficient and reliable development

Python is one of the most frequently used programming languages for data scientists, machine learning practitioners, and blockchain researchers at Coinbase.

Engineering,

September 1, 2022,

7 min read time

Performance Vitals a unified scoring system to guide performance health and prioritization

Performance Vitals: a unified scoring system to guide performance health and prioritization

A lot has changed since 2018 when the Coinbase web team consisted of only a few engineers.

Engineering,

August 26, 2022,

7 min read time

Security PSA Sha Zhu Pan (Pig Butchering) Investment Scams

Security PSA: Sha Zhu Pan (Pig Butchering) Investment Scams

The Coinbase Security team has previously submitted the domains in this blog, in addition to several other related domains, to Google Safe Browsing for alerting users when browsing to these sites.

Engineering,

August 18, 2022,

4 min read time

The Ethereum Merge is Coming Here’s what you need to know

The Ethereum Merge is Coming: Here’s what you need to know

On August 10, 2022 Ethereum completed the Goerli public testnet merge — its final trial before making the migration from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS)* on mainnet (also known as the Merge ).

Engineering,

August 16, 2022,

4 min read time

Nomad Bridge incident analysis

Nomad Bridge incident analysis

TLDR: Building a better crypto ecosystem means building a better, more equitable future for us all. That’s why we are investing in the larger community to make sure anyone who wants to participate in the crypto economy can do so in a secure way. In this

Engineering,

August 9, 2022,

12 min read time

Introducing our NFT Dapp Starter Kit for Developers

Introducing our NFT Dapp Starter Kit for Developers

TLDR: We’re providing developers with an open-source starter kit that can be used to kickstart dapp development for NFT minting sites. Happy building!

Engineering,

July 1, 2022

Announcing the Relay VSCode extension

Announcing the Relay VSCode extension

TLDR: Coinbase is introducing its innovative VSCode extension created in collaboration with the Relay team, for the Relay GraphQL client, which is available for developer use now.

Engineering,

June 30, 2022,

3 min read time

Scaling Node Operations at Coinbase

Scaling Node Operations at Coinbase

TLDR: This blog shares insights on how Coinbase is investing in new tools and processes to scale its node operations.

Engineering,

June 13, 2022,

5 min read time

Scaling Container Technologies at Coinbase with Kubernetes

Scaling Container Technologies at Coinbase with Kubernetes

TLDR: Our recent evaluation of Kubernetes underscored its suitability for scaling Coinbase into the future. In the past, a migration to Kubernetes raised concerns due to the operational burden of running and securing the control plane in-house. We’ve now

Engineering,

June 6, 2022,

3 min read time

FACT0RN Blockchain Integer Factorization as Proof-of-Work (PoW)

FACT0RN Blockchain: Integer Factorization as Proof-of-Work (PoW)

Proof-of-work (PoW) is the original scheme to secure blockchain technology introduced in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto through the Bitcoin  whitepaper .

Engineering,

May 27, 2022,

5 min read time

Embracing Decentralization Integrating and Building Protocols at Coinbase

Embracing Decentralization: Integrating and Building Protocols at Coinbase

Over the past year, Coinbase has begun laying the groundwork to transform into a web3 company.

Engineering,

May 17, 2022,

4 min read time

Coinbase Blog

Rearchitecting apps for scale

Tldr; How Coinbase is using Relay and GraphQL to enable hypergrowth

Engineering,

May 6, 2022,

8 min read time

Coinbase Blog

Highlights from Coinbase’s First Smart Contract Hack Days

Hackathons have been a long-standing and important part of Coinbase culture, as they give our engineering teams the opportunity to collaborate with one another and experiment directly with the tools that are enabling a new era of open finance.

Engineering,

April 22, 2022,

3 min read time

Coinbase Blog

What are Bridges? Illicit use of bridges

Part 1: What are Bridges?

Engineering,

April 21, 2022,

6min read time

Coinbase Blog

Part 1: Quantitative Crypto Insight: Stablecoins and Risk-Free Rate

In part one of this quant research piece, we introduce the decentralized finance (DeFi) collateralized lending platform known as Compound Finance and discuss its use case for stablecoins, in comparison to the notion of a “risk-free” interest rate from traditional finance (TradFi).

Engineering,

April 12, 2022,

7 min read time

Part 2: Blockchain Analytics is Tricky at Scale

Part 2: Blockchain Analytics is Tricky at Scale

In our  last post  we walked through the basics of blockchain analytics and attribution.

Engineering,

March 29, 2022,

4 min read time

Blockchain Analytics is More of an Art Than Science

Part 1: Blockchain Analytics is More of an Art Than Science

Intro Bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies are often referred to as pseudonymous.

Engineering,

March 28, 2022,

6 min read time

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