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System Update: The future of finance is on Coinbase
Dec 17, 2025

Today, we launched several new products to usher in the future of finance on Coinbase.

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Distributed Proofs of Possession: Proving Key Ownership Without Exposing Keys

Security Platform Engineering, Compliance, and Cryptography teams
Mar 16, 2026
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Reducing Fraud Loss With an Automated Dynamic Policy

Jared Coleman , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Li Liu
Mar 11, 2026

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.

Consumer Protection Tuesday

Consumer Protection Tuesday: How “Pig Butchering” Scams Play the Long Game

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Mar 10, 20263 min read

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Futures Contracts in Europe

Futures Contracts Now Available on Coinbase in Europe

Daniel Seifert, Vinayak Doraiswamy
Mar 9, 20262 min read

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..

The New Prime

Coinbase Prime: The Institutional OS, Ushering in the Next Era of Crypto Trading

Rick Schonberg, Justin Davda
Mar 6, 2026

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.

Coinbase + Microsoft disrupt “Tycoon 2FA,” a phishing-as-a-service platform powering credential theft at global scale

Coinbase + Microsoft disrupt “Tycoon 2FA,” a phishing-as-a-service platform powering credential theft at global scale

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Mar 4, 20265 min read
Consumer Protection Tuesday

Consumer Protection Tuesday: Don’t Fall for It: How to Spot and Stop Tax Scams This Filing Season

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Mar 3, 20264 min read
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Consumer Protection Tuesday: What We Learned About Modern Scams at 92NY: 5 Practical Rules to Stay Safe

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Feb 24, 20265 min read
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Primitives vs. Platforms: Scaling DeFi Velocity with MagicSpend and ERC-4337

Santosh Nagaral
Feb 19, 2026

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.