Coinbase status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
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 13: Problems at Coinbase
Coinbase is having issues since 07:40 PM 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 | 21 days ago |
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Transactions | 24 days 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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AEON.XYZ (@AEON_Community) reportedCoinbase Business is treating AI-initiated payments as a new customer class. Same checkout, same dashboard, same accounting, but now capable of receiving a payment whose buyer is software calling an API rather than a person at a browser. That is a meaningful category shift. Combined with reusable links, flexible pricing, and a unified product catalog, the suite is becoming the kind of operational layer a small business anywhere in the world can actually run on, not just hold crypto on. The shift is from "accept crypto" to "operate on crypto." The infrastructure underneath has to be ready for that buyer, because the transactions look nothing like human checkout. They are smaller, more frequent, more autonomous, more cross-border, and far less forgiving of fee overhead. The settlement layer that connects a software-initiated x402 payment to a real-world merchant, especially in emerging markets where card rails are weak, is exactly what has to be operational. AEON has been building that layer in production. As early partner of Coinbase's x402 protocol, with millions in volume already processed, AEON already connected 50M+ merchants in 20+ emerging countries through AEON Pay with QR-code and bank-transfer acceptance. We are extending the rail that serves the #AIpayments and #AIeconomy. $AEON
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SwagMaster (@teflonYian) reported@phantom Na and your update sucks. Coinbase on ramp is also ******. Fix it.
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Matteo Pellegrini (@matteopelleg) reportedMY BITCOIN JOURNEY: 2012: hears about bitcoin for the first time, thinks it's a scam, price is $5 2013: tells people not to buy it 2014: - 2015: joins twitter 2016: buy $20 of bitcoin and ethereum on coinbase because somebody on twitter would not stop talking about it, still think it's a scam 2017: reads naval tweet about blockchain, buys more bitcoin 2018: thinks bitcoin is old tech, start buying shitcoins 2019: reads the bitcoin standard, finally understands why bitcoin is not a scam 2020: sell all the shitcoins and goes all in because of saylor 2021: he's obsessed and can't think of anything else, goes to bitcoin miami to meet other bitcoiners 2022: goes to a bitcoin meetup in LA but doesn't make any friends, mostly shitcoiners 2023: launches orange pill app to help himself and other bitcoiners make bitcoin friends IRL 2024: orange pill app takes off 2025: rebrands orange pill app to club orange 2026: he's cited in a bitcoin book
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CryptoBro (@CryptoBro_4alls) reportedCoinbase, Block and over 30 bitcoin firms asked the big AI labs for the model access attackers already have. Filters that stop malware also block defenders finding flaws first. The BTCPay bug that drained Lightning nodes was caught this way. Your own keys stay out of that fight.
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Penelope Ashioya (@validator_sj9i) reported@coinbase Routing through one exchange doesn't mean shared access It means Deribit leans on Coinbase liquidity instead of its own
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Maitreya Lockwood (@maitreyabtc) reported@MegaMinerAlex You’re just jealous that your server is coinbase and black rocks node. You don’t get any say while they turn it into a database.
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CRYPTONIAN (@CRYPTONIAN_OG) reported@robdamercman89 @coinbase @RobinhoodApp I just did the update it now works thank you fren It was weird though i even went to the website and it still wasn’t working
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Velvet Unicorn (@VU_virtuals) reportedThe Market Chose Guardrails Over Glamour Solana’s Warning Shot @solana did not halt, but it got close enough to make everyone sit up straight: a Teraswitch routing fault knocked 28.83% of staked $SOL offline in minutes, and Marinade said the network reached 86% of the 33.34% threshold where transactions could stop finalizing. That is the uncomfortable lesson after all the capacity talk: throughput is glamorous, but liveness still depends on boring internet plumbing. The Wrapper Trade The SEC is reportedly set to unveil an innovation exemption for tokenized stocks as soon as Friday, while Franklin Templeton’s onchain money market fund FOBXX was cleared for use in registered funds. Goldman is buying NEOS Investments for up to 2.25b, picking up the 1.1b BTCI bitcoin income ETF business, and Kraken added 24/7 S&P 500 perpetuals with commodities planned next. The line is clear: crypto market structure is being pulled into regulated wrappers, even as New York City probes Kalshi, Polymarket, Coinbase and Gemini over alleged deceptive prediction-market marketing to young adults. Agent Trust Stack The AI-agent story moved from can agents transact to who verifies them before they touch money. Catena Labs raised 30m Series A, bringing total funding to roughly 48m, for verified agent identity, policy-checked accounts and audit logs across 10 chains; @navaai raised 8.3m for AI agent verification guardrails; and Perceptron raised 6.5m for decentralized AI data infrastructure. The moat is drifting toward permissioning, logs and counterparty trust, not just another wallet button. Security Bills Arrived @BtcpayServer patched an LND credential flaw after an active exploit drained Lightning nodes, and it is offering up to 3 BTC for recovery information. Harmony is considering a rollback after a suspected exploit minted roughly 4b unauthorized ONE tokens, about 26% of supply, while Decrypt reported a separate exploit exposing the “inner thoughts” of major AI models. Different stacks, same message: automation without observability and containment is just leverage for attackers. AI Cost Squeeze Lovable raised 400m at a 13.3b valuation, so capital is still paying for AI interfaces with consumer pull. But the model layer is getting squeezed from the other side: DeepSeek’s V4 Pro upgrade was framed around Claude Fable being only 5% better at 4,500% the price, while Elon Musk pitched Grok 4.6 on intelligence, speed and cost. The next AI margin fight is not who sounds smartest in a demo; it is who can be resold inside real products without eating the app’s economics. Token Tape The onchain board was not a clean risk-on tape. Beat rose 14.31% on 57.09m volume at a 1.19b market cap, but unique sells still outnumbered buys; VIRTUAL gained 9.35% with more than 1.05m holders, yet showed only 137.7k liquidity against a 290.16m market cap. Hyre added utility for ANSEM as inference-credit top-ups, but ANSEM still slipped 2.13%, a neat reminder that utility announcements do not automatically create demand. Net Read Today’s market cared less about spectacle and more about permission, resilience and who gets to operate safely at scale. Tokenized equities are getting institutional doors, AI agents are getting trust infrastructure, and chains are being reminded that one bad route can matter as much as one good benchmark. Watch the next layer: not just faster rails, but who controls access, recovery and accountability when those rails break.
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MR TWWM (@TWWM70) reported@bot can you help @coinbase @CoinbaseSupport as it’s just another day of me not being able to have access to my funds. No resolution date just an engineer is “looking into it”
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RecoverIt Asset Recovery™ (@Recoverlt) reported@bishopb0b I noticed your report about the fake Coinbase Wallet listing that led to nearly $5,000 being drained. That’s a serious loss, especially after the app appeared legitimate. The wallet transactions could help trace the funds. I can review the evidence and help determine the best recovery approach.
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Bitcoin Realist (@abitcoinrealist) reported@bitcoinmalaya Coinbase is terrible, their customer support is incompetent as ****. They closed my account with no reason given even though I have all KYC and everything complete. Garbage *** CEX.
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Rucha (ऋचा) (@_wallwalker) reported@JackofTradesX @tenobrus My understanding was: Exchange volumes being high will increase demand (price) of BTC which is good for BTC. Depends on which exchange? W&D yes, where and how are you measuring it? Considering it is not a BTC only cryptocurrency world, which was the core assumption in 2008. Yes, which is why I felt BTC chain volumes not the right way to look at BTC movement / trajectory as a whole. Again, this is why I look at Coinbase (my proxy for whole of cryptocurrency movement / trajectory) And Block (my proxy for BTC specific cryptocurrency movement / trajectory)
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Higher (@HigherGPT) reported"Trading Difficulty" 2021 vs. 2026 🧐 2021: traded illiquid vapor jpegs against third shift taco bell employees & GED holders yelling WAGMI 2026: trade high volatility tokens with houdini liquidity against pros, demon zoomers, & the house ----------------------------------------- 85% of CT users from 2021 thought NFT was a synonym for crypto and never traded onchain til 2024 buying XRP on coinbase in 4000 a.d. or $9 of $doge in 2019 does not count. show me the onchain trading wallets and volume before 2023 and after 2024 wtf yall talking about lmao.. seriously
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Paul Timofeev (@ptimfv) reportedThe @circle business model is at a crossroads. Q2 reserve income was 95% of its total revenue but: - Supply is down QoQ - The reserve return rate fell 66 bps YoY The float business model has worked well till now but its inputs are deteriorating. Circle can only influence supply via distribution so much; Fed rates are out of its control, which explains why Circle has been laying the groundwork for a volume-based business model that charges per-transaction, much more similar to that of Visa or Mastercard, who collect a fee on each payment they clear, which is a much more sound business model whose growth is tied closer to its industry (consider that Visa grew FY25 net revenue 11% on 8% payments volume growth while rates were coming down). Lower rates also means less incentive to sit on cash, which means money is more likely to move around. A stablecoin volume-based business model is built around stablecoin velocity. Usually measured as stablecoin transfer volume/circulating supply, velocity tells us how actively a stablecoin is being exchanged between different owners for various goods + services. The higher the stablecoin's velocity the more it is being transacted with. For reference, USDC velocity held near ~200 in Q2 ($14.8T volume / 73.3B circulating supply). To monetize USDC accordingly, Circle is building its new business model around its upcoming native L1 @arc - Gas fees on all transactions are paid in USDC, then converted to the native L1 token ARC at the protocol level: validators keep a commission, the rest passes to stakers proportional to stake, and a portion is burned against 2-3% initial issuance - Circle holds 25% of the initial 10B ARC supply and runs validators, so it earns on both sides of that flow - None of this is reserve income, so none of it falls under the Coinbase revenue share that takes 100% of on-platform reserve income plus 50% of the residual reserve income. Velocity matters particularly for agentic commerce because behaviorally agents are more likely to spend money for resources they need rather than hold the money idle as is common in emerging markets using stables like USDT as savings accounts. This behavior is already visible in data; comparing USDC (pink line) and USDT (orange) velocity below, we see the two track each other for six years and separate sharply from mid-2025 (when x402 launched) with USDC breaking above 50x while USDT remained flat around 12x. ~99% of x402 agent-payment volume settles in USDC, and Circle's Agent Stack now supports 900+ paid services, but that activity runs on public chains today. USDC settles transactions while those chains capture the gas fees, meaning Circle currently earns nothing per-transaction itself. Conversely on Arc, value generated in the payment loop will accrue to Circle. x402 has cleared 165M+ transactions across ~69,000 active agents in its first year. If even a portion of that migrates to Arc, each transaction converts USDC gas into ARC, split between validator commission, staker rewards, and a burn against supply Circle owns a quarter of. Transaction count (which has been consistently growing for USDC QoQ) becomes more important than payment size. Needless to say, how this all plays out depends on the success of Arc, whose mainnet is currently scheduled in a little over a month from now. Founding validators include BlackRock, DTCC, ICE, Mastercard, Visa, Standard Chartered, Galaxy, Global Payments, MoneyGram, SBI and Sumitomo; BlackRock is expected to deploy BUIDL on the network; DTCC will enable tokenization of DTC-custodied assets. Circle is also shipping a product suite for Arc including configurable privacy, AI-powered tooling for building apps and smart contracts, and native support for RWAs, while Binance Wallet, Chainlink, Fireblocks, Kraken, Ledger, MetaMask, Uniswap Labs and Upbit have already confirmed day-one USDC distribution on Arc. Realistically won't see the velocity model show up in Circle's numbers till Q1-Q2'27, but monetizing USDC's velocity is Circle's clearest differentiator in an increasingly crowded multi-layered stablecoin landscape.
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The Block (@TheBlockCo) reportedTHE BLOCK: Deribit has received a broker-dealer licence from Dubai's VARA, enabling it to route spot buy, sell, and trade orders to Coinbase Exchange for execution. Coinbase $COIN also established its international tokenization hub in Abu Dhabi this week, expanding its presence in the region.
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Griff (changing pfp = good community) (@gigagriff) reportedOne of the many issues with CT is that they lack agency. Their preference for pathos (appeal to authority) is crazy. That’s why KOLs have so much power etc. For example take this guy, he thinks cuz arkham tagged a $5 million dollar wallet “coinbase?” its not confirmation.
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Marc Baumann 🌔 (@marcb_xyz) reportedThe pattern: crypto, stocks, derivatives, prediction markets, payments, savings. One app, one balance, every market. Brokers charged commissions for access. Coinbase is making access the free part. Follow @fiftyonexyz for institutional digital asset intelligence.
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Keifer Lopez (@ThoughtNest98) reported@tbvxyz @coinbase Does this mean US clients still cant access the tokenized products?
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Zynta (@ZyntaFinance) reported@WalletConnect @coinbase the most important part is that the problem works and solves problems 🤝
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Marlon | BTC x Macro (@MarlonOnBTC) reported$MARA NEEDED $600 MILLION. IT BORROWED AGAINST ITS BITCOIN INSTEAD OF SELLING THE ASSET. It pledged 18,750 bitcoin:native as collateral. About $1.2 billion worth, more than half its entire stack, per CoinDesk. Think about what that means. The old move when a company needs cash is to sell the asset. MARA did the opposite. It borrowed against its Bitcoin and kept the exposure. Fixed 7.65% rate, due 2028, from Coinbase Credit $COIN and Two Prime. This is the part that matters: it's becoming a pattern. Public companies are treating their Bitcoin like a reserve asset they borrow against, not a piggy bank they crack open when they need money. MARA may use the cash for corporate purposes, including a planned power plant acquisition that could support both mining and AI.
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Mark yu (@Markymarco34) reportedYou may think your answers were right, but I came away with a different impression. You told us the data showed that Koreans were the ones selling STX. But I think there is an important market-structure explanation for that. In the samples we previously reviewed, Upbit’s STX spot volume was at times roughly 4x Binance and 6x Coinbase. And even now, the latest snapshot shows: Upbit: ~8.68M STX traded in 24h Binance spot: ~3.93M STX traded in 24h So Upbit is still handling roughly 2.2x Binance’s spot volume right now. When one market represents such a large share of visible STX spot trading, it is naturally going to show a large share of both the buying and the selling. So seeing more selling activity in Korea does not automatically prove that “Koreans are the problem” or that Korean holders are uniquely bearish. It may simply reflect where most of the liquidity and turnover are concentrated. That is why I interpreted the same data differently. I’m not saying my interpretation has to be right. I’m saying the market structure deserves to be considered before drawing conclusions about who is selling and why. @muneeb
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Alexandre Heraud (@zo_heraud) reported@PrivateFighterr Hey, I’d be careful with that claim, there are several red flags and some confusion between Coinbase and Base. Before you move or recover any funds, send me the proof/screenshots and I’ll help you verify what actually happened. Send a DM
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KaKa_Defi (@BlesdAbroad) reported@CoinDesk @coinbase @BitGo Black hats get beta access for free
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Georgez (@georgez_crypto) reported@CoinDesk @coinbase @BitGo I'm trying to figure out how the attackers got the early access though
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Dissecting the Markets (@dissectmarkets) reported@ariaradnia And plus, Figma is literally the software that nearly all the apps and website we use are designed at. Uber Eats, Instagram, Netflix, Airbnb, Coinbase, Robinhood, all designed their UI with Figma. And I doubt they’ll ever change providers when Figma holds so much insights.
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deezzex (@deezzex) reportedCOINBASE’s CFO just told WHARTON professor something wild: most people will move money on crypto rails and NEVER EVEN KNOW it. it’ll just look like your card working. except underneath, it won’t be your card’s system anymore. COINBASE CFO ALESIA HAAS sat down with WHARTON professor Itay Goldstein and MICHELLE LAI (Electric Coin Co) to break down where money infrastructure is actually headed. her point: credit cards, ACH, all of it, same old rails, just prettier apps on top. crypto is the first real rewrite of the rails themselves. stablecoin volume already jumped from $10T to nearly $20T this year. that invisible rail she’s describing is exactly the chain I mapped in my last article, terminal, acquirer, network, issuer, and it’s quietly being rebuilt right now, partly by AI writing the code for it. if you want to actually understand the rails everyone’s about to rebuild, before they rebuild them, read the full breakdown below SAVE this before you forget, and FOLLOW for more fintech + AI breakdowns like this.
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PulseChainTrenches (@PLSTrenches) reportedBrian Armstrong facts, since the timeline clearly needs a refresher. In July he changed his profile picture to a memecoin on Base. It pumped 37x to a $37 million market cap in hours. He changed it back, the coin crashed more than 85% in a day, and then he announced that his account is not trading signals. The CEO of America's biggest exchange nuked his own community with a pfp swap. He publicly praised Coinbase users for their diamond hands through this brutal market. He sold $101 million of his own COIN stock while saying it. Base spent over a year pushing content coins, including tokens tied to its own founder. Retail lost money on them. Brian's response was that they messed up and it's time to turn the page. Nobody got a refund with the page turn. Coinbase pulled its support for the industry's market structure bill the night before the committee vote, and by his own explanation, the bill would have killed several Coinbase products. The whole industry's regulatory clarity died so their product line could live. His company takes a cut of your staking rewards, fees on both sides of every trade, custody fees from the ETFs, and 100% of the revenue from Base, the chain he keeps comparing to Ethereum without ever saying thank you. Brian didn't build crypto. He built a tollbooth on it.
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mooncake (@mooncakexbt) reported$BTC remains trapped between structural spot selling and aggressive perp buying. Coinbase spot continues to lead the sell off (-909 BTC), while Bybit perps have absorbed much of the flow (+835 BTC). The market remains capped at 64.5k (851 BTC), with primary support at 62.5k (1,873 BTC) 61.3k looks juicy, but candles are creeping with tight acceptance here, which makes me think the market may defend the 62.5k-62k zone one more time and frontrun 61.3k
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Protocall (@ProtoCallAsia) reportedBitwise cut 14% of staff, down to ~155 employees, as the crypto slump squeezes firms across the board. Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken, same story. 7,254+ disclosed cuts across 47 companies so far this year.
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kedy (@big_kedy) reportedThe real test for crypto isn’t just whether it can go up, it’s whether it can make everyday life easier. That’s the problem MegPrime Pay is trying to tackle: making it possible to use crypto for more of the things people actually spend money on. With the MegPrime Pay app, you can get started and spend your crypto in everyday life instead of leaving it sitting untouched in a wallet. Midway through the journey, @MegPrimePay is also giving U.S. users a simple way to purchase $MPP directly in the app. And there’s currently a bonus for eligible U.S. users: deposit $25 and receive $50. For users outside the U.S., $MPP can be purchased through Coinbase Wallet or Uniswap. If crypto is going to become part of everyday life, accessibility and real world usefulness matter. MegPrime Pay is building around that idea.