TLDR: Our Global Intelligence team partnered with the U.S. Secret Service, the UK's National Crime Agency, the Ontario Provincial Police, Canada's Ontario Securities Commission and other partners on a coordinated sprint to identify and protect victims of approval phishing — a scam that tricks people into unknowingly granting criminals full access to their crypto wallets. Together, we helped freeze over $12 million in stolen funds; identify 20,000 victims across the crypto ecosystem; and where possible, take steps to protect them from further thefts.

Tldr: Coinbase Australia has been granted an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) with a retail derivatives authorisation, making us the first crypto exchange to receive this landmark approval from ASIC. This milestone deepens our commitment to Australian customers and positions Coinbase as a trusted, regulated home for crypto in one of the world's most engaged crypto markets.

Today marks a significant milestone in Coinbase's long pursuit of regulatory clarity: we have received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to charter Coinbase National Trust Company.

TL;DR: We built an AI-powered Case Grading Assistant that reduces trainee case review time from ~90 minutes to ~20 minutes – while maintaining human oversight and full auditability. The system uses comparison-based grading (evaluating agent work against known-good reference cases) via LLMs, minimizing hallucination risk and improving consistency at scale. Key insight – anchoring evaluations to explicit reference cases and rubrics enabled faster reviews while supporting more consistently calibrated outcomes.

Coinbase is working with Better to make crypto-backed mortgages a reality for millions of Americans. This first-of-its-kind mortgage product, offered by Better and powered by Coinbase, expands access to homeownership while benefitting from the same backing of Fannie Mae as other conforming mortgages.

The United States is building the world’s most comprehensive digital asset regulatory framework. Congress has already passed the GENIUS Act, and lawmakers are now advancing market structure legislation through the CLARITY Act. But one critical piece of the puzzle is still missing: the tax code.

TL;DR: Coinbase processes over a billion payout transactions a year across staking rewards, USDC rewards, and Coinbase One benefits. We’re sharing the evolution of our Payout Framework—from the limitations of synchronous processing to a high-throughput async architecture that handles rewards across dozens of assets with precision.

TL;DR Coinbase has launched stock perpetual futures for eligible traders outside the US, providing 24/7 leveraged synthetic exposure to US stocks on a regulated, centralized platform. This expansion of our global derivatives offering aims to meet the growing demand for continuous equities exposure.

Despite a challenging market environment, investors are committed to crypto for the long term. That’s the key takeaway from a 2026 EY-Parthenon team and Coinbase survey of 351 institutional investors.

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.

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..

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.