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Reducing Fraud Loss With an Automated Dynamic Policy

Tl;dr: Coinbase has developed a novel, dynamic control policy that replaces static rules to automatically manage risk, resulting in superior financial loss mitigation and more efficient utilization of constrained resources.

Consumer Protection Tuesday: How “Pig Butchering” Scams Play the Long Game

Futures Contracts Now Available on Coinbase in Europe

TLDR: European traders can now access futures contracts for the first time on Coinbase. These fully regulated contracts will be initially available through Coinbase Advanced, in 26 European countries, including Germany, France, and Netherlands..

Coinbase Prime: The Institutional OS, Ushering in the Next Era of Crypto Trading

Tl;dr: Today, Coinbase Prime, a full-service crypto prime brokerage for institutions, announced integrated regulated futures and unified cross-margin functionality across spot and derivatives markets. Through our CFTC-regulated FCM, Coinbase Financial Markets, institutions can now trade 20+ futures contracts—including perpetual-style futures—with 24/7 access, all within a unified Prime workflow spanning execution, custody, and risk.

Coinbase + Microsoft disrupt “Tycoon 2FA,” a phishing-as-a-service platform powering credential theft at global scale

Consumer Protection Tuesday: Don’t Fall for It: How to Spot and Stop Tax Scams This Filing Season

Consumer Protection Tuesday: What We Learned About Modern Scams at 92NY: 5 Practical Rules to Stay Safe

Primitives vs. Platforms: Scaling DeFi Velocity with MagicSpend and ERC-4337

TL;DR: Building retail onchain products traditionally requires teams to manage a fragmented stack: smart wallets, bundlers, paymasters, and complex UserOperation construction. To solve this, we engineered two foundational layers: MagicSpend, an atomic onchain funding primitive that authorizes debits from Coinbase balances with revert-safe semantics and Magic Platform, an abstraction layer that codifies ERC-4337 infrastructure. Together, they reduced product shipping timelines by 3x and have processed over $1B in volume.

AI Across the Stack: Lessons from Building Invoicing

TL;DR: By leveraging a "Context-First" AI workflow, we shipped Coinbase Business Invoicing in weeks instead of months. We transitioned from manual UI mocking to code-first prototyping and used scoped repository sandboxing to enable safe, cross-stack iteration.