Categorie: Coinbase

What are Bridges? Illicit use of bridges

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...

Coinbase Ventures Q1 recap and market outlook

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,...

What are Bridges? Bridge Basics, Facts, and Stats

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...

gm! Coinbase NFT is now in beta

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

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...

Announcing new confirmation requirements

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,...