Categorie: Coinbase

By Michael Li, Vice President, Data at Coinbase Hackathons have been a long-standing and important part of Coinbase culture, as they give our engineering teams the opportunity to collaborate with one another and experiment directly...

By Heidi Wilder, Special Investigations Manager & Tammy Yang, Blockchain Researcher Part 1: What are Bridges? Bridge Basics, Facts, and Stats Illicit actors are often attracted to the newest forms of technology, and bridges are...

Around the Block from Coinbase Ventures sheds light on key trends in crypto. Written by Connor Dempsey TLDR: Despite the market downturn, Q1 was another highly active quarter for crypto venture funding. On the infrastructure side,...

By Heidi Wilder, Special Investigations Manager & Tammy Yang, Blockchain Researcher Introduction Recent questions have been raised about how bridges and mixers work both for legitimate business purposes and illicit financial transactions. Although mixing...

Image by Amber Vittoria By Sanchan Saxena, VP of Product, Ecosystem Products gm NFT Community, Last year we announced Coinbase NFT, a Web3 social marketplace for NFTs. Since then, we’ve been building in the open...

Part 3 — Blockchain heuristics through time In our last post we introduced the cornerstone of scaling up blockchain analysis, commonspend, and its pitfalls. In this blog post we’ll explore more complex and novel blockchain analysis scaling...

By Faryar Shirzad, Chief Policy Officer The digital economy is permanently changing the nature of financial services globally and digital assets are at the center of much of this rapid change. This is something clearly...

By George Liu and Matthew Turk In part one of this quant research piece, we introduce the decentralized finance (DeFi) collateralized lending platform known as Compound Finance and discuss its use case for stablecoins, in...

Starting immediately and as part of an effort to increase transparency by providing as much information symmetry as possible, Coinbase will be using this blog post as a pilot to communicate assets under consideration...

Coinbase is reducing the number of confirmations required for several assets on the platform. We expect this change to both improve customer experience and security posture. What’s changed New confirmation requirements for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum,...