Coinbase status: access issues and outage reports

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.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Coinbase users through our website.

• Mobile App (35%)
• Transactions (24%)
• Login (24%)
• Website (12%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Coinbase outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Houston	Mobile App	2 days ago
Louisville	Mobile App	1 month ago
Guayaquil		1 month ago
Rancho Santa Margarita	Login	2 months ago
Montreux	Website	2 months ago
Miami	Transactions	2 months ago

Full Outage Map

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Coinbase Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Cyprx Research Lab Official (@CyprxResearch) reported 26 seconds ago

  Coinbase CEO says stablecoin transactions could grow 100x as AI agents begin to outnumber humans. That sounds extreme… until you realize AI agents transact very differently than people. Humans make dozens of payments per week. Agents can make thousands per day: - API access - compute resources - data usage - subscriptions - micro-settlements between agents And they need: - instant settlement - programmable money - ultra-low fees - 24/7 execution That’s exactly what stablecoins provide. The biggest users of stablecoins may not be humans. They may be machines.

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  bronson (@bronson1123) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Ledger I’m tired of holding bittensor:native in coinbase pls add support

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  Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reported 9 minutes ago

  @cgtwts Coinbase went down because chillers in an AWS datacenter overheated. Brian Armstrong walked through the redundancy assumptions that didn't survive the actual physics. CG dropped a clip captioned "the technical team that got fired 2 days ago." The structural read is funnier than the joke and worse than Armstrong is letting on. The receipts. Coinbase architected systems for redundancy across AWS Availability Zones. Implicit assumption: any single AZ can fail and traffic reroutes seamlessly. Actual failure: a physical cooling collapse in one AZ took down hardware faster than rerouting logic could redistribute load. The numbers. AWS operates ~36 active Availability Zones across 12 US regions. Cooling failures are rare but not zero. When they happen, they cascade through hardware in 4-8 hours rather than failing gracefully. Coinbase processes $4-7B in daily transaction volume. An hour of downtime is $170-290M in unprocessed flow plus reputational risk. The structural read. Cloud architecture documentation talks about resilience as if it's a software-only problem. The Coinbase outage is a reminder that infrastructure runs on physics. Pumps fail. Chillers leak. Power supplies die. Most "cloud-native" companies have never run their own physical infrastructure. They lack the reflexes to anticipate failures their cloud provider hides. The honest read. Coinbase didn't fail. The chillers failed. Coinbase's redundancy assumptions failed to model what happens when hardware fails faster than software can reroute. The technical team didn't get fired. The chillers did.

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  Liberty Swap ⚡️ Bridge2Pulse™️ Zero-Fee DEX (@LibertySwapFi) reported 14 minutes ago

  @jacob7r_ @coinbase We have plenty of good karma. If we can recover some funds during this difficult time, it would be best used to support the positive causes we’re working on. We’re a small protocol, every penny counts.

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  YE i sun (@YeisunBlaze) reported 14 minutes ago

  @DelCrxpto @coinbase Coinbase has protected my assets plenty of time never had an issue other when servers get attacked by hackers

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  Joe Parrish (@MisterAccord) reported 14 minutes ago

  Coinbase: Trading down for a day, people flip **** DeFi Protocols: Easy scams and exploits that break the business, bailout money galore, "DeFi United" Nobody has to like Coinbase, but it's clear to me that some people just love to hate it. Might buy more $COIN.

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  Crypto Sunny (@Crypto_SunnyS) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Asim_374 @ofc_the_club Try importing the same wallet into Coinbase Wallet, then connect Coinbase Wallet to the website and try again. Its working or not Do let me know

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  Mohamed BOUSMARA (@mirall2023) reported 18 minutes ago

  @CryptoNews2008 Just give you an update about Solana coinbase just added to backed loan like Btc and ether I like to help you with this information sir

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  zebrablues.eth (💙,🧡) (@zebrablues) reported 19 minutes ago

  •Coinbase announces an AMA with CEO Brian Armstrong on May 11, 2026, at 12:30 PM PT to discuss recent company developments, with the accompanying graphic also featuring CFO Alesia Haas. •The “eventful week” primarily references Coinbase’s May 5 announcement of laying off 14% of its workforce (~700 employees) to accelerate its shift to an AI-native model amid weak Q1 results and crypto market conditions. •It also follows a multi-hour trading outage on May 7 caused by cascading quote failures affecting spot, derivatives, and Prime services, prompting Armstrong to outline recovery and next steps.

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  Alex Shirkey (@AlexShirkey00) reported 20 minutes ago

  @briankerns @XRPBags I had a similar experience on Base with ZBCN. It said I had 1.3 ZBCN worth about $58K then it grew grew to $4B, then suddenly it changed to FRL and today I checked and it's all gone. I tried asking Coinbase, their customer service sucks ***** and were no help. I never got an answer, never got any help and now it's just gone with basically zero transaction history for the wallet, at least nothing I can understand. Any body else able to provide explanation or offer any assistance? I have screenshots...

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  Richard L ₿urton (@rburton) reported 23 minutes ago

  @BitcoinSapiens Either the genesis block or @coinbase credit card ;)

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  sudo rm -rf (@itsjustmarky) reported 23 minutes ago

  Coinbase was down for hours, the reason? A room overheating at AWS datacenter!

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  Chikun (@LitecoinTA) reported 25 minutes ago

  Every time I login to @coinbase they want some new piece of personal information. It’s beyond ridiculous now. They’ll be asking for my inside leg measurement soon.

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  Devlin Duldulao (@devlinduldulao) reported 28 minutes ago

  A reminder for every engineer building mission-crit apps: Regional redundancy isn’t optional. A single point of failure will find you eventually. One AWS zone went down. Failures spread. Trading stopped. Design for failure before failure designs your incident report. #coinbase

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  Linus Mixson (@LinusMixson) reported 28 minutes ago

  In fairness, if this is the first time Coinbase has experienced an AWS-linked outage of this magnitude, it does sort of prove their thesis. But, on the other hand, choosing to be a single-region us-east-1 shop doesn't strike me as something that was done with a lot of forethought.

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  Seth Rosen (@TavCannaLLC) reported 29 minutes ago

  @raagulanpathy Absolutely no accountability from @brian_armstrong In pay $300 a year for Premium Coinbase One and can’t even get decent customer service.

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  Agent J (@mib_jay) reported 29 minutes ago

  @AdamSimecka Really wish Saylor would just do like one but not OTC and watch the exchanges scramble and manipulate it back down I do t think binance, kraken, coinbase and wintermute hold 1:1 ratios and are running fractional models

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  toni (@tonitrades_) reported 29 minutes ago

  @bh30317 @coinbase @brian_armstrong Freezing withdrawals signals insolvency fears, not a " technical glitch.".

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  The Orca Fin (@axbkol) reported 39 minutes ago

  AWS has touted the Coinbase model for years as the way to go, and AWS proudly has the case study up on its website. Coinbase has one centralized location. Anybody who has been in the industry for decades knows that it is not how things are done; never was. One needs multi-region data centers with failover capabilities. One needs to hedge against natural disasters, fires, large-scale equipment failures, riots, local grid outages, nuclear fallout, etc. In a way, it is like buying insurance.

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  Rho Rider (@RhoRider) reported 40 minutes ago

  🎯 $COIN is hiding the truth about the AWS outage. The reality is they cheaped-out on Infrastructure backups to juice stock earnings. In 2023 Coinbase slashed “Website Hosting & Infrastructure” expenses by over half, citing “modernization & efficiency” efforts. This would include AWS cloud hosting (& backup). They also cut Developer Resources by half. The lower expenses enabled them to report big earnings estimate beats that year…the stock skyrocketed This was just before the crypto market rebound. In the following years, Coinbase became known for major extended outages during periods of high volume. In FY 2025, despite ATH crypto and significant outages, they still haven’t reinvested back to 2022 levels of Infrastructure investment. @brian_armstrong cares more about the stock price than the safety & stability of the platform.

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  Marcus Furrelius (@MarcusFurrelius) reported 41 minutes ago

  @coinbase And now @coinbase support chat is failing to send my messages after we have been chatting for at least an hour and half.

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  Toga Steve (@toga_steve) reported 41 minutes ago

  @JorgeZ231998 @DelCrxpto @coinbase You unfortunately fell for a scam from the sounds of it. Connecting your wallet to any sites people claim to help will 100% drain your funds.

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  T mailed (@t_mailed59540) reported 49 minutes ago

  @cryptodotnews Did aws related any news or these claims are from coinbase only ? As u know its cloud so other customer also should be effected else It can be espionage by govt !! U know what may have happened ??!!

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  Liberty Swap ⚡️ Bridge2Pulse™️ Zero-Fee DEX (@LibertySwapFi) reported 50 minutes ago

  So the @coinbase Compliance Team has finally responded to us with instructions. However, if the owner of the wallet reaches out to us, it would avoid a lot of problems and reduce time and money spent by both sides, especially on legal fees.

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  Marcel (@55bags) reported 53 minutes ago

  I was not fact checked but if that site was up there for 2.5years then this one is on coinbase, why on earth would you allow that to stay up there as a 50B dollar company.

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  czverse (@czverse) reported 56 minutes ago

  For 30 years, the internet ran on one payment assumption: Humans authorize. Humans approve. Humans pay. Every financial rail ever built assumed a person at the end of the wire. Credit cards - designed for humans. Bank transfers - designed for humans. PayPal - designed for humans. Then on May 7th, AWS flipped a switch. And the assumption broke. AI agents running on Amazon's infrastructure can now pay for things. By themselves. In real money. In 200 milliseconds. No human in the loop. The Coinbase head of infrastructure didn't bury the headline: "There will soon be more AI agents transacting than humans." Here's what they actually built: AWS Bedrock AgentCore Payments. Agents get a wallet. Wallet is funded by a human. Agent spends - within hard limits you set. Settlement happens in USDC on Coinbase Base or Solana. Cost per transaction: fractions of a cent. And the protocol underneath is elegant. It's called x402. Built on HTTP 402 - a status code that's existed since 1991. "Payment Required." Engineers reserved it in the original web specs. Never implemented it - because the financial rails of the 90s couldn't support it. Stablecoin rails can. So x402 is finally live. 30 years later. The use cases are already real: → APIs become pay-per-call - no contracts, no accounts, just transact → MCP servers get paid directly by agents doing research → Paywalled content charges per article - agents pay 5 cents to read → Agents hire other agents and pay them per completed task Warner Bros. Discovery is testing it. Heurist AI is building agent labor markets on top of it. And that creates the question nobody's ready for: What happens to the economy when agents are the buyers? No impulse purchases. No brand loyalty. No UI dark patterns. Agents optimize purely on price, speed, and quality. The machine economy doesn't browse. It transacts. We broke down the full architecture, the x402 protocol, every use case, and the risks in detail. Link in bio. czverse

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  Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reported 56 minutes ago

  Brian Armstrong's Coinbase layoff letter is the first explicit corporate confirmation that AI is replacing knowledge workers at scale. He didn't hide it. He made it the structural reason. The structural reality. Coinbase reduced headcount by 14 percent and rebuilt the org around three principles. Maximum 5 layers below the CEO. No pure managers (every leader must ship code). AI-native pods including "one person teams" handling engineer, designer, and PM roles in single hires. The labor displacement math. If a single engineer can ship in days what previously took a team weeks, the team isn't 5x more productive. It's been replaced. Coinbase is publicly admitting the multiplier is real and acting on it before it becomes obvious. The competitive context. Other large tech companies have done quiet AI-driven layoffs without admitting the cause. Armstrong is the first major CEO to write down "AI changed how we work" as the explicit justification. Other CEOs will follow once the tone is set. The structural lesson on AI labor disruption. 2020-2024 saw incremental productivity gains from AI tools. 2025-2026 is producing structural cost reductions that flow directly to operating margin. Displaced workers don't reabsorb. They compete with everyone else's displaced workers. The bull case for Coinbase shareholders. Lower fixed costs through the next crypto cycle mean leverage to revenue growth without proportional opex growth. If crypto adoption accelerates, Coinbase emerges with higher operating leverage. The bear case. Cutting too deep mid-cycle creates execution risk. Crypto cycles have a way of demanding capacity at the moment companies have removed it. Other tech CEOs are watching this letter. The next 12 months will tell whether Coinbase is early or just first.

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  Knight_of_Krypto (@Krypto_Knight33) reported 56 minutes ago

  @BitcoinRachy When you live outside America and have access to many exchanges, you see how much Coinbase are screwing Americans simply because they don’t know any different.

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  NETERN (@0xnetern) reported 57 minutes ago

  @JorgeZ231998 @DelCrxpto @coinbase That’s serious. Coinbase usually doesn’t delete accounts and “take” funds—this may be a login compromise or phishing. If you share the withdrawal tx details and timestamps, I can help trace where the funds went and guide you on potential recovery and reporting steps fast.

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  Seth Rosen (@TavCannaLLC) reported 58 minutes ago

  The recent Coinbase service outage (May 7-8, 2026) lasted approximately 7 hours and the claim is this outage was caused by overheating at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in Northern Virginia. During this period, many users, myself included, were unable to execute trades, complete transfers, or even reliably view account balances.