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What Coinbase is Doing to Prepare for Post-Quantum Cryptography

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

Consumer Protection Tuesday: Summer Jobs, Internships, and Scams: How to Stay Protected

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.

Automating Risk Model Retrain Loop with Agentic Skills

TL;DR: This post dives into how Coinbase’s Risk ML team uses Agentic Skills to close the model improvement loop with human review gates.

Consumer Protection Tuesday: How to Spot and Avoid QR Code Scams

Coinbase Obtains MiFID License in the United Kingdom

Coinbase has secured a UK investment services authorisation. It means UK users will soon be able to trade derivatives and equities alongside crypto, on one platform, under one login. It will unlock the single biggest expansion of our UK product suite since we entered the market, and a major step toward bringing the everything exchange to life.

Coinbase Powers Spiko’s Mutual Fund with Stablecoin Funding

TLDR: In a landmark first for Europe, investors can now enter and exit a regulated mutual fund (UCITS) near-instantly using stablecoins. By leveraging Coinbase Payments, Spiko has eliminated the traditional multi-day settlement gap, allowing institutional investors  to move seamlessly between USDC and T-bills 24/7.