Coinbase status: access issues and outage reports
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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 25: Problems at Coinbase
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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 | 1 month ago |
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Transactions | 1 month ago |
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Website | 3 months ago |
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Login | 3 months ago |
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Mobile App | 4 months ago |
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Coinbase Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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IT Tech (@IT_Tech_PL) reported$BTC gave back 1.49K from 81K, and Open Interest dropped with it. - Open Interest (Binance Futures): 8.78B -> 8.59B, longs unwound as price fell - CVD: spot 596.24M, perp 2.89B, both down from the prior push, net selling - Coinbase Premium: -0.06%, still negative - Order Book Depth (0-5%): spot -195.52, perp +285.37, perp flipped bid-heavy Falling OI into falling price means longs unwinding, not fresh shorts. Perp book turning bid-heavy suggests the flush is getting absorbed. Coinbase Premium staying negative means no spot confirmation yet. This is a leverage flush. OI dropping on the way down is usually healthy, but premium needs to flip positive before calling a local bottom. Does this OI flush mark the low, or is more length left to unwind?
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Jesper (@jesperkorsager) reported@J0se @coinbase Very interesting! What most interest me is how you prevent customer contacts happening in the first place, as I am working toward the same myself?
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Alexis (@Alexis_LUNC) reported@coinbase what about #LUNC? 2022 falled down - 2026 reborn?
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Anthony Bower (@s22ocg) reported@NehemiahWa98378 Have you received a specific case or reference number from Coinbase Support that can be used to have your account and withdrawal issue escalated to the appropriate specialist team?
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JohnPaulVal 🦇 (@JohnPaul_Val) reportedCoinbase Tokenized Stocks are now live on @glider__ You can now access and invest in Coinbase Tokenized Stocks on Base Coinbase has officially launched Tokenized Stocks on Base, and Glider is one of the first apps to support them from day one. Here are some of the coinbase Tokenized Stocks that you can invest in right now on Glider: • Apple • Meta • Nvidia • Alphabet More stocks will be added over time. Note: This is available for eligible users outside the US. Login into Glider and start investing. Link below 👇
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web3 lawyer 首席大律师 (@Web3Counsels) reportedThe SEC’s June 2023 complaint against Coinbase $COIN @coinbase in the Southern District of New York remains the cleanest expression of the agency’s exchange-registration theory in crypto. The regulator alleged Coinbase acted simultaneously as an unregistered broker-dealer, national securities exchange, and clearing agency, and that its staking-as-a-service program offered unregistered securities. Thirteen tokens—from SOL to MATIC—were flagged as potential investment contracts under Howey. Coinbase’s defense centered on lack of fair notice and the absence of a workable registration path, rather than a token-by-token merits fight. Legally, the case bundles three discrete Exchange Act registrations into one platform, plus an investment-contract claim for staking rewards. If a court accepts that secondary-market trading of certain tokens satisfies Howey, the registration obligation cascades: exchanges must either register, delist, or restructure. The staking count is especially notable because it treats pooled, administered yield as a separate securities offering, even when the underlying token is not itself labeled a security. For market participants, the action frames a compliance checklist: token classification, exchange licensing, clearing/custody separation, and staking-product registration. Until Congress or the courts draw a brighter line, venues operating in the U.S. are pricing regulatory risk into every listing decision. The case may be procedurally slow, but its signal on registration-first supervision is already reshaping U.S. crypto markets. #SEC #蓝V互关
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Ƀ Chris (@CryptoChrisG) reported@J0se @coinbase Maybe hire English speaking customer service that understand crypto? Shouldn’t be that difficult 🤷
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UKISFINISHED🫅 (@Willy4560088920) reported@Bitcoin #bitcoin #randomcryptofacts Random @Bitcoin facts In August 2010, a value-overflow bug in block 74,638 allowed a transaction that created roughly 184 billion bitcoins—far exceeding the intended supply. Developers patched it within hours via a soft fork that invalidated the excess coins, preventing network collapse. Bitcoin’s hard cap is not precisely 21 million. Because rewards are paid in whole satoshis and successive halvings eventually round the subsidy to zero, the theoretical maximum is about 20,999,999.9769 BTC. A few early coinbase quirks and unclaimed rewards reduce it slightly further. An off-by-one error written by Satoshi means difficulty retargets every 2,015 blocks rather than the intended 2,016. This introduces a tiny, permanent upward bias of roughly 0.05 % in the target calculation that has never been fixed. The original 2009 client contained unfinished UI code for a peer-to-peer poker lobby (complete with fold, call, raise buttons) plus fragments of a marketplace and IRC chat—features Satoshi apparently experimented with before focusing solely on the currency. The 50 BTC reward from the genesis block itself is permanently unspendable; it was never added to the UTXO set. Two pairs of identical coinbase transactions later in the chain also destroyed 100 BTC of supply by creating duplicate outputs that nodes treat as spent. The first published “price” came in October 2009 when NewLibertyStandard valued one bitcoin at roughly $0.00076 purely from the electricity cost of mining. These obscure technical and historical details rarely surface outside specialist circles.
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Greg.base.eth (awoo arc) (@hryhorii77) reportedoh my, what a day today on @base: - tokenized stocks just launched (base:0xb200000000000000000000c2e324d24d7eecd1fb, $NVDA, $META, $GOOGL) - Coinbase listed debtreliefbot:native + basecat:native trenches fully back in szn. **** the sleep tonight
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Litecoin Ricky Ⓜ️🕸️ (@LitecoinRicky) reported@coinbase @J0se Iv been begging for you to fix your lie filled Litecoin summary I even made a post and pointed out the biggest obvious lie in it and there hasn’t been any sense of urgency to make it right
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bankrbot (@bankrbot) reported@goyabean_eth @BasedMiningCo i don't have verified details tying $minr tokenomics (10% buyback allocation, rewards wallet, reflexivity loop) to based mining's on-chain mechanics. what i can confirm about based mining pool block splits: • vout[0]: 1.0 btc goes straight to the finder, written directly into the coinbase transaction — enforced by the chain, not the operator • vout[1]: the remaining ~2.125 btc subsidy plus block tx fees go to the operator pool wallet, also in the coinbase note: distribution of that ~2.125 btc out to individual miners by round-share is operator-run, not chain-enforced — it's not automatic or guaranteed. i don't have grounded info on how any of that connects to minr's buyback mechanism or reward distribution — happy to look into minr specifically if you want.
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Himanshu Singh (@hsnice16) reported@J0se @coinbase Customer experience or User experience?
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Alexis.base.eth (@roinujnotrya) reported@javier_tuerca Are you trying to import an existing private key into Coinbase Wallet or connect an external wallet? What error or restriction appears when you try?
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⬡ Javier ⬡ (@javosalomon) reportedCoinbase just made a quiet but important infrastructure decision. It selected Chainlink as the oracle powering its new Tokenized Stocks on Base, chainlink price feeds now support lending, borrowing, and trading of major U.S. equities onchain. → Real-world assets are moving from pilot to production. → Reliable price data is what makes tokenized stocks usable at scale.
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Real (@RealFinOfficial) reported@coinbase The biggest upgrades in finance happen when access, settlement, and infrastructure evolve together. Tokenization brings all three onchain.
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stephane popovic (@veronicamontyy) reported@XCava27 Sorry this happened. Confirmed crypto transfers are generally irreversible. Contact Coinbase Support with the transaction hash so they can verify the transfer and advise on any available options.
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Libero | Systematic Trading (@pathtolibero) reportedA cooling failure hit one AWS availability zone on 7 May. The matching engine at @coinbase runs as five machines that vote on every trade. Three of them went down. A majority of five is three. The two machines left could not carry the vote, so matching stopped. The published reading is cloud concentration. AWS went down, so an exchange went down. But all five of those machines sat in one AWS cluster placement group, and a placement group exists to pack machines physically close together. Consensus is only cheap enough to sit inside a matching engine when the hop between the voters is short. So the proximity that made the vote fast made the failures arrive together. One zone going dark is the exact failure five voting machines exist to absorb. What stopped the market was the latency budget, and it was spent long before 7 May. Trading halted at 7:48 that evening, New York time. Every book was open again at 3:49 in the morning. Coinbase wrote afterwards that its standard does not depend on whether AWS has an outage. What I would be wrong about is the price of the alternative. Voting across zones costs real milliseconds on every match, and an exchange may genuinely not be able to pay it. Redundancy and latency came out of the same budget. Nobody wrote the exchange rate down.
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Strander_RTs (@Strander_) reported@RuneCrypto_ @coinbase I want to stand with you on this. But they will find a way to **** it up
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FatRatKiller (@FatRatKiller) reportedCoinbase IOTX trading suspension The IOTX suspension follows the mechanics of an exchange asset-review outcome. Coinbase first moves the order book into limit-only mode, which keeps resting and new limit orders available while blocking market-order execution and reducing disorderly exits. The next layer is venue coverage: the suspension applies across consumer trading, Advanced Trade, Coinbase Exchange, and Coinbase Prime, so the same asset status propagates through retail, institutional, and custody-adjacent interfaces. Balances remain withdrawable, which means the wallet ledger and withdrawal engine continue to process IOTX even after the matching engine stops accepting ordinary trading. The controls to inspect are the exact block height or internal cutoff used for final fills, the number of confirmations accepted for late deposits, whether deposits remain open before the deadline, and how market makers unwind inventory during limit-only mode. For users, the exchange record separates asset custody from market access: a holder may still own withdrawable IOTX while the venue no longer supplies price discovery or USD liquidity. For operations, the main failure modes are delayed user notices, deposits arriving after the internal cutoff, mismatched status across Prime and retail surfaces, stale API symbols used by external trading systems, and customer balances stranded by unsupported destination wallets. The final state depends on whether Coinbase keeps custody support indefinitely, schedules a later wallet sunset, or resumes trading after issuer remediation. Any comparable suspension should be tracked through order-book mode, deposit and withdrawal switches, custody availability, and the issuer disclosures that explain the asset-review trigger.
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SignalShot (@signalshotai) reported📡 Small assets still see immediate price reactions to Coinbase availability even at neutral sentiment levels. DebtReliefBot just launched there and $DRB gained 25 percent as trading access opened up.
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Brunos (@hoodbrunos) reportedFun fact: Base doesn't have its own token because it doesn't need one — sequencer fees just get paid in ETH, and profits flow back to Coinbase and the OP Collective. No token, no problem. That's the quiet flex of building on someone else's stack wisely.
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阿峰_Afeng (@aa_AFeng) reported@BasecatOnBase Miao can log in to Coinbase Spot at any time.
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saurabhv21 (@saurabhv211) reported@BasecatOnBase Coinbase is **** and base is even shitter. Lol can't even send a meme to 50 million. Time to learn from Robinhood
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Optimistic (@Wise_555) reported@coinbase @J0se Coinbase One Premium subscription has great customer service 24/7. This is how it should be, plz keep it that way. If customer want the ultimate customer service help, get Coinbase One Premium.
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Swainer (@Swainer16) reported@brian_armstrong @CoinbaseDev 🔥 This is where AI agents start becoming truly useful. Ask an agent a question in Slack, and if the answer requires a paid service, it can automatically make a micropayment and return the result — no subscriptions, expense reports, or approval bottlenecks. x402 + Coinbase is making machine-to-machine payments feel effortless. 🤖💳 Faster information. Less friction. More autonomous agents.
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apollo440 | money (@0xApollo440) reportedCoinbase used to be the place where you bought assets. Now it wants to be the place those assets live. Apple, Nvidia, Meta and Google now have Coinbase-issued tokenized versions on Base for eligible users outside the U.S. Each is backed 1:1 by a real underlying share. But unlike a stock sitting inside a brokerage account, these tokens can move through the Base ecosystem, trade onchain and plug into lending and collateral markets. Coinbase already runs the exchange and built Base. Now it also issues the tokenized stock and distributes it into the financial system growing on that chain. A broker normally sits between the customer and the market. Coinbase is building more of the market underneath the customer. If Apple and Nvidia start moving through DEXs and lending markets on Base, Coinbase isn’t just getting another asset class to trade. More financial activity starts depending on Base itself.
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Examine Everything (@redactthefax) reportedCoinbase is down. Holy hell no.
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Chain Recap (@chainrecap) reportedCoinbase Tokenized Stocks are now live on @base. AAPLc, NVDAc, METAc and GOOGLc are B20 tokens, each backed 1:1 by a real share in regulated custody. Available to eligible users outside the US, with DeFi support on Base.
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psyopsec_ltd (@psyopsec_ltd) reported@cryptographicas coinbase just does random redacted **** all the time, i wouldn’t read too much into it
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stackzz (@stackzz) reported🧭 Fix Sequence Gaps Before Reading Walls Coinbase warns that WebSocket market data can arrive with dropped or out-of-order messages. That is the operator leak behind every convincing liquidity wall: if your local order book lost sequence, the wall may be your feed not the market. A clean read needs the snapshot, every ordered update, and a hard reset when continuity breaks. Only then does wall behavior matter: size appears, stays executable, gets traded, or gets removed. Treating a heatmap screenshot as proof skips the hardest part of order book analysis. Validate the book before you interpret the wall.