Coinbase

Quick read

Coinbase, a public crypto exchange (NASDAQ: COIN), founded June 2012, headquartered in San Francisco, CA. It's the largest U.S. crypto platform by assets held — $516 billion in digital assets as of October 2025 — and is expanding into equities, derivatives, and prediction markets under an 'everything exchange' strategy. In May 2026, the company announced a 14% workforce reduction framed as an AI-driven operational redesign.

Key facts

Founded

June 2012

Founders

Brian Armstrong, Fred Ehrsam

Employees

7482

Sectors

crypto, fintech

Website

coinbase.com

Mission

Coinbase's mission is to increase economic freedom globally by building an open financial system — one platform for crypto, equities, derivatives, prediction markets, and stablecoin-based payments.

Recent activity

• Jul 2026press
  Coinbase reported Q2 2026 total revenues of $1.2 billion, split roughly half transaction and half subscription/services. Coinbase One surpassed one million paid subscribers — an all-time high. Bitcoin's share of total revenue fell to 12%, down from over 50%, as the asset mix widened. Average USDC held in Coinbase products grew 44% year over year, with Coinbase capturing roughly 50% of USDC economics. theglobeandmail.com
• May 2026press
  Coinbase, Ripple, and Fidelity backed the CLARITY Act ahead of a major U.S. crypto regulation vote in Congress. egw.news
• Mar 2026investment
  Coinbase led negotiations with Bybit on an investment partnership. egw.news
• Feb 2026product
  Coinbase launched its own prediction market product, expanding the platform's offering beyond crypto trading. egw.news
• Dec 2025investment
  Coinbase acquired The Clearing Company, a prediction markets startup, to strengthen its position in that segment. egw.news
• Nov 2025product
  Coinbase announced the Base App — a social network embedded in a wallet with earning potential and a possible token. egw.news
• Jul 2025leadership
  Coinbase hired Alex, formerly at Binance, as Head of Crypto Twitter Communications. Separately, the company updated its X profile picture to a Pudgy Penguins NFT, which triggered a short-term spike of up to 13% in the PENGU token. cryptobriefing.com
• 2026 ongoingproduct
  Coinbase established Abu Dhabi (ADGM) as its international tokenization hub after securing an FSRA license, enabling it to bring global securities to wallet holders. Project Diamond, an institutional onchain finance platform built on Base, executed its first digital debt instrument in preparation for the ADGM RegLab sandbox. x.com
• Jun 2026product
  Coinbase launched a Luxembourg hub, securing EU market access under MiCA regulations as Binance faced licensing setbacks. Coinbase and OKX moved to compete directly for Binance's displaced EU users. tracxn.com
• May 2026press
  Coinbase announced layoffs affecting 14% of staff. The accompanying internal memo indicated non-technical teams would be expected to ship production code, drawing wide press coverage and comparisons to other 2026 tech restructurings. en.wikipedia.org
• H1 2026investment
  Coinbase Ventures ranked first among crypto-focused VCs in H1 2026, completing 30 deals from January through June — ahead of Animoca Brands (19), a16z (18), and Tether (15), per CryptoRank's funding analytics. linkedin.com
• Q1 2026product
  Coinbase Prime custodies 12% of total crypto market cap. US spot Bitcoin ETFs absorbed $18.7B in net inflows in Q1 2026 alone, with much of that capital flowing through institutional platforms including Coinbase Prime. linkedin.com

Notable investments

• Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL)Seed2026coinbase.com

Key people

Named individuals at the firm. We don't expose direct email or phone — use their LinkedIn for outreach.

• Zach Abrams · Employee
• Brian Armstrong · CEO
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• Emilie Choi · President & COO
• Alesia Haas · CFO
• Paul Grewal · Chief Legal Officer
• Surojit Chatterjee · former CPO

Sources

• Coinbase - Wikipedia
• Coinbase Investor Relations News
• Coinbase Cuts 14% Of Workforce, Signals AI-Driven Future
• Coinbase's Base unveils 2026 strategy
• Jesse Pollak on AI agents and crypto payments
• Coinbase 2026 Company Profile - Tracxn
• Coinbase Ventures News
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marialopez-digital_una-fecha-para-recordar-en-coinbase-y-nissan-activity-7459494747678703616-kT-S?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAGlwBPABeferj6yxzLrcVjAaCFWWeqEycXs
• https://x.com/a16z/status/2038729574415261784
• https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/2006855956840239265
• https://sg.linkedin.com/in/hassanahmed3
• https://x.com/coinbase/status/2008578457093996771
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Armstrong_(businessman)
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cryptobreaking_coinbase-ventures-leads-crypto-vc-funding-activity-7482429920829218816-2qk0?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAGsnMsUBeNz2OIFxR0fncV2lCvT_u2Qy33c
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lbrock
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/coinbase-asset-management
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/shan-aggarwal-2a314b49
• https://x.com/coinbase
• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/markets-news/Motley%20Fool/3566442/coinbase-coin-q2-2026-earnings-call-transcript/
• https://egw.news/tag/coinbase
• https://cryptobriefing.com/coinbase-profile-pengu-nft/

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