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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.

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.
Disclaimers: Derivatives trading through the Coinbase Advanced platform is offered to eligible EEA customers by Coinbase Financial Services Europe Ltd. (CySEC License 374/19). In order to access derivatives, customers will need to pass through our standard assessment checks to determine their eligibility and suitability for this product.