Coinbase status: access issues and outage reports
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Users are reporting problems related to: transactions, website and login.
Coinbase is a digital asset broker headquartered in San Francisco, California. They broker exchanges of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and other digital assets with fiat currencies in 32 countries, and bitcoin transactions and storage in 190 countries worldwide.
Problems in the last 24 hours
The graph below depicts the number of Coinbase reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.
August 20: Problems at Coinbase
Coinbase is having issues since 01:20 AM AEST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!
Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Coinbase users through our website.
- Transactions (40%)
- Website (20%)
- Login (20%)
- Withdrawals (20%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Coinbase outage reports came from the following cities:
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Withdrawals | 28 days ago |
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Transactions | 1 month ago |
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Transactions | 2 months ago |
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Website | 2 months ago |
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Login | 3 months ago |
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Mobile App | 3 months ago |
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Coinbase Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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KaspaDanijel (@KaspaDanijel) reported@coinbase Want to trade $Kaspa? Use #Kraken. **** Coinbase.
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Thomas Palmann (@ThomasPalmann) reported@coinbase Want to pay absurd fees on every single trade? Use Coinbase. Want your app to crash the second the market moves 2%? Use Coinbase. Want customer support that feels like talking to a brick wall? Use Coinbase. You get where this is going.
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Dumitrescu Octavian Nicolae (@tavitag203) reported@DefiWimar The narrative of a coordinated exchange-led manipulation fundamentally misunderstands how modern cryptocurrency infrastructure operates. Entities like Coinbase, Binance, and Kraken are primarily custodians and matching engines, not proprietary hedge funds taking massive directional bets to pump the market. Asserting that these exchanges collectively "bought" Bitcoin to artificially inflate the price ignores the basic reality of their business models, which rely on transaction volume and fee generation rather than speculative trading against their own users. What on-chain tracking alerts often mislabel as direct "exchange buying" is simply the aggregation of client activity or routine internal wallet management. When a blockchain scanner flags a massive inflow to a known Binance or Coinbase address, it is typically reflecting the net positive buying pressure from thousands of underlying retail and institutional clients. Alternatively, it represents the exchange manually rebalancing liquidity between its cold storage vaults and hot wallets to meet sudden withdrawal demands during a high-volatility event. The inclusion of Wintermute in this supposed conspiracy further exposes the flaw in the original analysis. Wintermute is a highly active algorithmic market maker, meaning their entire operational purpose is to provide liquidity across dozens of fragmented order books. During aggressive price expansions, their automated systems rapidly execute trades across multiple venues to arbitrage price discrepancies and maintain market efficiency. This registers on-chain as massive volume, but it operates with zero directional bias and is a reaction to market flow, not the cause of it. The simultaneous nature of these large block transactions across different platforms points to standard algorithmic institutional execution rather than a dark-room cartel. When massive entities often sensationally labeled as "insiders" need to deploy hundreds of millions of dollars into Bitcoin, their prime brokers do not just click "buy" on a single platform. They use advanced routing algorithms to slice the massive order and execute it concurrently across every major exchange to minimize slippage and avoid tipping their hand to the broader market. Labeling standard market structure dynamics as "coordinated manipulation" completely obscures the actual mechanics of institutional capital flows. We are witnessing aggressive, organic spot demand sweeping through thin order books, forcing market makers to constantly re-hedge and exchanges to rebalance their reserves. Misreading routine on-chain settlement data as a malicious conspiracy only distracts from the undeniable macroeconomic reality: deep-pocketed buyers are aggressively accumulating hard digital assets, and the market plumbing is simply reacting to that massive influx of capital.
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MRCΛULIMΛN (@mrcauliman) reportedQuick reminder for anyone holding $XRP on an exchange. An exchange account is not a self-custody wallet. If your $XRP is sitting on Coinbase, Kraken, Binance or another exchange, you don’t control the private keys. The exchange does. That means you’re relying on that company to hold your assets, keep them secure, stay solvent, and give you access when you want it. A real self-custody wallet is different. You control the keys, you control the wallet, and you control the assets. For XRPL, use an actual XRPL wallet like Xaman or another trusted self-custody option. Exchange for trading. Self-custody for ownership. If you don’t control the keys, you don’t fully control the assets.
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Ball-Knower, Esq., Ph.D 🏈🏀 (@AUHeismanTrust) reported@DavidLat @coinbase @mollyisonchain Tell her to stop offering sports gambling on her stupid ******* platform and there won’t be any issue
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Par de guaros Sw (@pardeguaros) reportedSide note: Since Binance had exchange issues and deeper wick levels on all assets it's better to use Coinbase or other exchanges that didn't for our charting since binance was an outlier
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skitzo (@elskitzodegen) reported@XenophonteCrypt @coinbase $ICP community has to be the biggest braindead bagholders we ever seen? down 99.9% and still the craziest cope tweets
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⬡ CryptZilla ⬡ (@LINK_Zilla) reported@brian_armstrong @uplvls 4. Coinbase can’t hand the volatility and the platform goes down, again.
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Great Scott The Gamer (@scottlmax) reportedIts so devious how @coinbase is hiding the withdraw #crypto button across its website now. So hard to find... just a little scammy feeling behavior @brian_armstrong.
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Cristi Steel 🇺🇸 (@CristiSteel) reported@GraceoftheS @UpholdInc @coinbase I just worry because there is such a big push for crypto and block chain and these people can't secure data either????
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Jennifer Meier (@roxana_baldetti) reportedCould you confirm whether the Coinbase app is slow throughout the entire app or mainly when loading your portfolio, prices, or completing transactions?
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MRCΛULIMΛN (@mrcauliman) reported@Lyne013962129 You can’t use an exchange address like Coinbase for this. You need to use an actual XRPL wallet address, like Xaman. Also, I wouldn’t keep your assets sitting on an exchange long term. On an exchange, you don’t control the keys, so you’re relying on that company to hold and give you access to your funds. Move your $XRP to a wallet you control, then use that XRPL wallet address in AUGUR.
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Bradley S. (@BradleyRawkStar) reported@brian_armstrong **** I would’ve loved to do that ! Let’s go @coinbase !
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⚡ORANGE__DAWG⚡ (@grumpytrashcat) reported@coinbase is dogshit with application access . Wtf
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0xAirzZ丨Mr张 (@jn121314) reported@coinbase @blknoiz06 Because he’s part of a team, not working alone.
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CryptoRob (@CryptoRob35) reportedokay so Coinbase just published their agent transaction data and the number that nobody's talking about is this: 76% of all AI agent transactions are underwater on traditional card rails before a single cent of margin Visa's minimum fee: $0.30. Average agent transaction: $0.31-$0.48. the math doesn't work. it was never going to work. and the biggest names in payments are only now figuring out what we figured out years ago yellow network was built for this exact problem. not pivoted into it. built for it.
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exchangeIntel (@exchangeIntel) reportedCoinbase CDP Wallets performance issue resolved The incident is marked resolved by the official source. Official incident duration: ~53 min.
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Austin Federa | 🇺🇸 (@Austin_Federa) reported@serpinxbt No, you would need a separate book. But most exchanges already operate a ton of different books. Coinbase has like four, polymarket has two, as long as there is fast connectivity between the two books and market makers (which are already KYC’d) can balance liquid at the appropriately they shouldn’t be too much of an issue. DoubleZero Coded
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Princess🎴₿💎🕊️ (@PrincessBartho2) reported@smartcoded At the same time, @coinbase is putting Hyperliquid perps inside Base App, giving eligible users access to more than 290 markets with up to 50x leverage.
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Lauren Stern | Rep (@DesireePerzz) reported@thereal1Mashall Are you getting a specific error when trying to buy crypto on Coinbase, or is the transaction simply failing to go through? I’d be happy to help you troubleshoot it.
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Riz (@Riz02615402) reported**** @coinbase and their gay base they want to protect. thank God no more #kaspa futures whee they can suppress and manipulate the price. if people bought spot only would be far better off
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Dot connector (@m_zohal) reportedEveryone is celebrating $70,000 Bitcoin. The one indicator that matters hasn't budged in 100 days. The Coinbase Premium — the gap between what Americans pay for BTC on Coinbase vs the rest of the world — has now been negative for 100+ straight days. Longest streak in its history. Yesterday's 8% rip didn't fix it. Here's what actually happened: Treasury doubled long-bond buybacks to $4B per operation. Long yields slipped. Leveraged shorts got caught — somewhere between $1.4B and $2.7B liquidated in 24h, almost all of it shorts. Price did the rest. That's a mechanical move. Not a conviction move. Short squeezes feel exactly like breakouts. Same green candles, same excitement. But they're built from forced buying, and forced buying ends the second the last short is out. Chosen buying is what holds a level. And chosen buying from US spot hasn't shown up since May. Here's the part most people will miss though: This is how real legs start. Macro does the pushing — buybacks, debt blowing past $40T, deficits nobody can reverse — while positioning does the lifting. Then one day the premium flips positive, US spot starts paying up, and the squeeze gets a second engine. So the question isn't "did we hit $70K." It's "watch the premium." Negative premium + rising price = squeeze. Careful chasing it. Positive premium + rising price = trend. That's when it gets violent. Six months from now this divergence will look obvious in hindsight. The fireworks were borrowed. The bid is still coming. Are you watching the Coinbase premium here, or just the chart? 👇
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BSCN (@BSCNews) reportedCoinbase Brings Hyperliquid Perps To Base as Price Hits Two-Month High Coinbase (@coinbase) has added Hyperliquid (@HyperliquidX) perpetual futures trading to its Base App. Eligible users can now access more than 290 perpetual markets through the app. The available markets include crypto, equities, and commodity-related contracts. Trades are executed through Hyperliquid, with leverage reaching up to 50 times. Coinbase says perpetual futures represent roughly 75% of current crypto trading volume. The feature is unavailable in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and other restricted jurisdictions. hyperliquid:native has surged 23% over the last 24 hours to $72, a two-month high.
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Capy Research (@Capy_Research) reportedPerp DEX volume fell for a fifth straight month. Perps just had their best year on record. Both are true. The gap between them is the story of 2026. Four things that changed in perp market structure this year: - Perps went onshore. The CFTC cleared KalshiEX and Coinbase to list bitcoin perps, and this week the White House said the agency is working on a compliant path for @HyperliquidX. The regulator would rather hold the leverage than export it. - Perps stopped being a crypto product. TradFi perps climbed from 2.7% to 28.3% of Tier 1 crypto exchange futures volume in seven months, per Binance Research. Roughly $80B to $691B, while total crypto futures volume fell from $2.95T to $2.44T. > One book growing while the other shrinks is a migration, not a cycle. - The exposure now trades where the exchange cannot. Hyperliquid ETFs gained close to 20% in a single session and Nasdaq-listed Hyperliquid Strategies (PURR) closed up 30.4%, while US traders remain restricted from the platform itself. - Permissionless listing became the binding constraint. The July 28 flash crash in the SK Hynix perp is what a contract with no expiry looks like when the underlying has no depth. The common thread is coverage, not leverage. A perp is the cheapest way to quote an asset traditional markets never covered, on the days they refuse to open.
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Shizzy (@ShizzyUnchained) reportedThis is WAY bigger than people realize. Bittensor just got plugged into @Base through Chainlink CCIP. That means subnet tokens now have a path into one of the biggest onchain ecosystems in crypto, with Aerodrome liquidity and Coinbase distribution sitting right there. For years the biggest problem with subnets was access. Now that wall is starting to come down. 128+ AI startups. One ecosystem. Millions of new potential users. Bittensor is leaving the Bittensor bubble. 🔵
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Khalampre (@khalampre) reported@coinbase Not if your CEO can help it.
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吃喝赌抽 (@Zvodka47) reportedIf you want to buy bitcoin dont buy it through Robinhood or Coinbase. Because there’s a fee to the platform. Either buy it from Bitcoin’s official website or just buy $COIN
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XPI INC. (@Larry0834420405) reported@BankXRP @digitalassetbuy ****. Brad not speaking!! ******* Coinbase does tho.
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DV | Analytics (@DVB00N) reportedBitcoin's recent short liquidation event was the biggest since the resumption of the bull market in 2021. Over the past 24 hours OI (Open Interest) has dropped and funding rates have again ticked higher, meaning fewer positions are opening, but of those, they are predominantly longs. Spot volume has ticked upwards with a large increase in the Coinbase Premium Index, suggesting the spot volume is largely led by the US. This is likely due to the fact that the treasury announced it will more than double the size of its liquidity support buyback operations for longer-dated bonds. We can see via the liquidation maps that those shorts we spoke about yesterday were taken out and that shorts now dominate the liquidation maps. The 1D maps still show a small cluster of shorts up toward $70k, which could still fuel a small move higher, but the cumulative longs below price now substantially outweigh the shorts, and the higher timeframe maps are showing the same thing. Markets love max pain, and they tend to seek out the densest liquidation clusters. Since these shorts have been removed, it seems likely that the longs may be next. #Funding #OI #Liquidations bitcoin:native
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Jesús Crypto Plaza 🦇🔊 (@0xChainValue) reported@jmiehau @MKjrstad Smooth is an economy of scale, and that's the problem. Lido and Coinbase already have it in-house, averaging across thousands of validators for free. The home staker only gets it by clubbing together — and the club's effectiveness scales with how many are in it. Squeeze the home staker out and you don't remove the economy of scale, you make it exclusive again. The remedy degrades in proportion to the damage. On the ratio easing: exit and re-entry aren't the same function. The home staker sells the hardware, loses the routine, often crystallises a tax event. The institution dismantles nothing — its marginal cost of scaling back up is roughly zero. So the loop is reversible in quantity and irreversible in composition. It gets the ratio back with different people. That's hysteresis, not equilibrium. And the signal is about the differential, not the level. Both the holder and the validator collect the burn. Only one pays for hardware, time, tax complexity, illiquidity and slashing risk — and that cost is regressive in scale. When the gap between holding and validating falls below the cost of validating, the ordinary investor stops. That threshold is nowhere near zero for him, and sits right next to zero for a large custodian. Compressing the reward doesn't reduce staking evenly; it prunes everyone above the cost line, and the cost line is a function of size. Which is the same test applied consistently: if the return is for holding, security provision becomes residual work for exchanges.