Engineering

Building enterprise AI agents at Coinbase: engineering for trust, scale, and repeatability

Inside Coinbase One: Building a Modern Subscription Platform (Part 1)

Building an In-House Risk Management System for Futures Trading

Scaling Identity: How Coinbase Serves 1.5M Reads/Second

Making Smarter Decisions, Faster with AI at Coinbase

TL;DR: An inside look at the AI-powered tool built to enhance the RAPID decision-making framework at Coinbase.

Retrospective: 10/20/25 AWS Outage - Impact and Coinbase Next Steps

TL;DR: On October 20, 2025 Coinbase along with many companies experienced severe service disruptions due to a widespread AWS us-east-1 regional outage. The total amount of time Coinbase users experienced degraded performance was 3 hours 17 minutes.

Bitcoin at Coinbase: A Report on Innovation and Growth

From EC2 to EKS: Inside Coinbase’s 10x Compute Modernization

TL;DR: To prepare for extreme market volatility, Coinbase migrated 3,500 services from EC2 to Amazon EKS and AWS Graviton, a project accelerated by specialized consultants that resulted in 50% faster scaling and significant cost savings.

How we are improving product quality at Coinbase with AI agents

Coinbase has open sourced its design system

NodeSmith: AI-Driven Automation for Blockchain Node Upgrades

TL;DR: NodeSmith is Coinbase’s AI-driven system for automating blockchain node upgrades. It has reduced engineering upgrade effort by 30%, eliminated missed mandatory upgrades, and added automated analysis of every upgrade’s code changes.

Grounded Explanations: Combining Real Counterfactuals with Saliency Maps for Honest AI Interpretability

TL;DR: During my internship at Coinbase this summer, I implemented a novel tool to generate local explanations for deep neural networks.

How We Are Making Coinbase Easier to Use

TL;DR: Our 2025 account restriction improvements roadmap. These upgrades will make Coinbase easier to use and more secure. In-App and Automated EDD, Voice Calling with Activity Logs, Compliance Automation, and Consensus 2FA and Time Delay are rolling out.

Tools for Developer Productivity at Coinbase

TL;DR: Our mission is to make Coinbase the best place to build in crypto. To achieve this, we implement a continuous improvement flywheel throughout the company, driven by a strong suite of tools and platforms.

Optimizing Producer-Consumer Architecture for Market Data at Coinbase

TL;DR: Migrating Market Data Services to a low allocation in-memory ringbuffer architecture drastically improved latency and performance.

Solana Validator Performance Report

This article details our Solana validator performance, key validator characteristics, and switch from cloud to bare metal infrastructure -- a major change that has resulted in more performant operations.

How to Move Fast with Confidence

How Coinbase Builds Sequence Features for Machine Learning

TL;DR: Coinbase has developed a framework to rapidly develop and productionize user sequence features, improving model performance for both fraud detection and recommender systems.

The Ultimate Guide to Ethereum's Pectra Upgrade

Announcing SOC 2 Type 1 for Coinbase Staking