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A postmortem of our July 14, 2026 incident
TL;DR: On July 14, 2026, Coinbase experienced a service disruption that affected transfers, card transactions, and onchain services across our retail, institutional, and developer platforms. This degraded state lasted approximately 50 minutes, with residual delays as queued transactions processed afterward. This was caused by an unintended misconfiguration of an important network component as a result of a routine configuration update. At no point were customer funds at risk.

A New Standard for Clearing: Marex and Coinbase Bring USDC Into Regulated Margin Workflows
TL;DR: Marex is now accepting USDC as collateral in regulated derivatives clearing, powered by Coinbase. With instant fiat-to-USDC conversion and custom reporting infrastructure, Coinbase and Marex are bringing stablecoins into US-regulated margin workflows.

Interviewing Engineers in the AI Era: Lessons from a Year of Rebuilding
TL;DR: Now that nearly all of our new code is AI generated and overseen by humans, we’ve rebuilt our engineering interview loop to keep pace, testing how candidates direct AI, evaluate its output, and apply judgment where models fall short. This post documents three phases of that work: what changed, what the data showed, and what we're still figuring out.















