Key Takeaways The largest U.S. based cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase has completed its integration with Deribit, bringing the two platforms together as Coinbase Global Exchange and creating a single trading infrastructure for spot, perpetuals, dated futures and options. Coinbase announced the development on October 7, saying the combined platform will connect
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved the registration of Coinbase Clearing LLC as a Derivatives Clearing Organisation. This makes it the first USDC-native clearinghouse in the United States. The approval completes what Coinbase has been building toward for years: a full-stack, CFTC-regulated derivatives platform under one roof. Coinbase
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has pushed back against an upcoming Wall Street Journal story that he says is preparing to blame Coinbase and him personally for the failure of the CLARITY Act to advance in the U.S. Senate. “Here we go again!” Armstrong wrote in a recent X post. He
Coinbase Derivatives has officially submitted a proposal to the CFTC seeking approval to bring perpetual futures. These are linked to the US stocks individually in the American derivatives market. These outmatch traditional futures, as perpetual contracts are ones that do not expire. It would give eligible users and traders 24/5
Coinbase, America’s leading regulated centralized crypto exchange, has taken a regulatory step toward bringing single-stock perpetual contracts to the U.S. market by filing notice registrations with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its derivatives exchange and brokerage business. The crypto exchange confirmed the move in a post on X
Coinbase is enhancing Base App’s trading functionalities with the inclusion of perpetual futures via Hyperliquid. Qualified customers will be able to use over 290 markets for perpetuals that include Bitcoin, Ethereum, tokenized stocks, and commodity trading. The product features leverage of up to 50x for specific assets, while Hyperliquid is
The crypto-exchange platform Coinbase commenced the second quarter in a period marked by poor trading performance of cryptocurrencies but was able to earn revenues from non-core business ventures. This is evident in the firm’s Q2 financial performance, where the company’s revenues have been influenced by new user behavior through subscriptions,
AI will help to foster cryptocurrency adoption by generating demand for programmable digital payments, according to Brian Armstrong. In his X post dated July 26, he contended that AI will make blockchain technology the backbone of finance for autonomous systems. AI agents will buy data, computing power, and digital services
Since Robinhood introduced tokenized stocks as an innovation, Coinbase-supported Base has intensified efforts to develop tokenized stocks on blockchain platforms. In an interview on July 21, 2026, Base founder Jesse Pollak revealed that Robinhood had gotten ahead in this aspect through tokenized stock offerings on blockchain networks. On July 1,
Coinbase formally launched its European crypto hub in Luxembourg as per the Markets in Crypto Assets regulation of the European Union. This happened after Coinbase received a MiCA license from the financial watchdog of Luxembourg in June 2025. Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier granted the license more than
