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.

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.

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.

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.