Coinbase is a cryptocurrency platform and financial infrastructure company founded in 2012, when Bitcoin traded at $6. It builds consumer apps for buying, selling, and storing digital assets, alongside institutional trading and custody through Coinbase Prime, and developer tooling via the Coinbase Developer Platform. The company reports serving over 100 million users and holds more digital assets in custody than any other company.
Technical work spans blockchain technology, cryptocurrency exchange infrastructure, digital asset custody, stablecoin technology, global settlement rails, and full-stack financial infrastructure, including developer platforms and APIs. A unified "everything exchange" covering crypto, equities, derivatives, and prediction markets is under construction. Geographic reach extends across global settlement rails.
Since its founding, the company has emphasised trust, security, and regulatory compliance as foundational principles, treating a compliance-driven approach as central to enabling mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency. Coinbase operates across the cryptocurrency, financial services, fintech, blockchain, and institutional trading and custody sectors.
