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.

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.

For the first time, the IRS is requiring custodial brokers, like Coinbase, to report customer proceeds from crypto transactions. This includes a new Form 1099-DA and aggregated reporting for certain stablecoin transactions.

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.

Beginning with tax year 2025, some U.S. customers will receive a new IRS form, Form 1099-DA, which reports the proceeds from digital asset sales and/or exchanges.

TL;DR: Liquifi is rebranding as Coinbase Token Manager, a comprehensive platform to simplify and scale token management. Coinbase Token Manager will help teams manage token cap tables, automate vesting and distribution, and streamline compliance, while seamlessly integrating with Prime’s institutional grade custody solution.

Tl;dr: To meet the scaling demands of Solana, Coinbase has moved away from its legacy chain-agnostic processing model. We engineered a dedicated, high-throughput streaming architecture with parallel block processing, resulting in a 12x increase in transaction processing throughput and a 20% reduction in deposit latency.

We built Smart Targeting to move beyond using manual segmentation to build target audiences towards automated, intelligent discovery.

A new paper from the Coinbase Institute, From the Unbanked to the Unbrokered: Unlocking Wealth Creation for the World, highlights how to close the capital chasm.