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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.

Consumer Protection Tuesday: How Coinbase Is Helping the Financial World Stop Cybercriminals in Their Tracks

Coinbase Delivers on Q4 Financial Outlook, Doubles Total Trading Volume and Crypto Trading Volume Market Share in 2025

How to interview for a Product Design role at Coinbase

TL;DR: We believe that great design is the bridge to the future of finance. To help applicants prepare, here is a transparent look at what to expect during our Product Design interview loop, the skills we evaluate, and how we make decisions.