Engineering

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reviewingblockchaindesigns

Reviewing blockchain designs to determine confidence in custodiability

Safety of customer funds is a top priority at Coinbase. Before adding a native blockchain asset to our centralized exchange, Coinbase’s Security team reviews blockchain network designs to identify and mitigate custodiability risk. 

Engineering,

November 29, 2022

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Kafka infrastructure renovation at Coinbase

The following piece shows our evolving Kafka ecosystem, the efforts to modernize our data streaming platform, and the lessons we’ve learned.

Engineering,

November 8, 2022,

8 min read time

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Revamping the Apache Airflow-based workflow orchestration platform at Coinbase

In this blog post, we share how we have revamped our Apache Airflow-based orchestration platform to ensure security, operational efficiency and development velocity

Engineering,

November 1, 2022

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BSC Token Hub Compromise investigation and analysis

n this blog post, we share lessons about the nature of the vulnerability, exploitation methodology, as well as on-chain analysis of attacker behavior during the BSC Token Hub incident. 

Engineering,

October 31, 2022

Coinbase + TRUST

TRUST expands to Europe

Coinbase is pleased to announce the European expansion of the Travel Rule Universal Solution Technology (TRUST).

Engineering,

October 30, 2022

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Part 2: Building a Python ecosystem for efficient and reliable development

The following blog explains the technical details of the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) infrastructure and dependency management of our Python ecosystem.

Engineering,

October 27, 2022

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How Coinbase reviews tokens on Ethereum for technical security risks

Tl;dr: In this article we breakdown our ERC-20 token security framework, detailing framework categories and explaining why these risks matter by comparing them to risks present with the traditional financial system.

Engineering,

October 19, 2022

Coinbase Blog

Supporting EIP-4844: Reducing Fees for Ethereum Layer 2 Rollups

Following the Merge, EIP-4844 is an upcoming upgrade to Ethereum that will introduce data availability for rollups, leading to reduced fees and more transaction throughput.

Engineering,

October 6, 2022

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

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