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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.
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August 23: 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
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Coinbase Issues Reports
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Johnny (@I_Just_Johnny) reported@SuperLuckeee coinbase down almost 11% in that chart and he's on air calling the bottom, timing checks out for him at least
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ericosiu (@ericosiu) reportedCloudflare scanned roughly 200,000 high-traffic domains for agent readiness. Only 3.9% passed its Markdown content-negotiation check. Emerging capability-discovery standards were nearly absent. Cloudflare also says fewer than half of the HTML requests it observes now come from humans. That machine traffic includes crawlers, monitoring systems, automation, malicious bots, and AI systems, so it would be sloppy to call all of it agent traffic. The direction still matters. More research, comparison, and purchasing will happen through software acting for a person. That software needs a very different buyer path than the one most companies have built. I call this Agent-Led Growth. Agent-Led Growth means making your company easy for an agent to discover, understand, call, buy from within rules, and verify. Here is what each part looks like in practice. 1. Make the company discoverable Publish one canonical description of the product, who it serves, what job it completes, what it costs, and where the source documentation lives. Keep those facts consistent across your website, documentation, marketplaces, integration directories, and public profiles. If five pages give five different answers, the agent has to guess which one is current. Machine-readable Markdown can reduce that friction. Cloudflare now tests for it inside its Agent Readiness diagnostics. A polished homepage designed for humans can still be a mess for software trying to extract exact product facts. 2. Make the offer understandable An outside agent should be able to answer seven questions without hallucinating: What does the product do? Who is it for? What inputs does it need? What output does it return? What does it cost? What permissions does it require? What evidence supports the claims? This is where clear use cases, current pricing, technical documentation, limitations, and primary proof become part of distribution. 3. Make one valuable job callable Reading about a product is different from completing work with it. Give the agent one bounded action through an API, MCP tool, or another structured interface. For an SEO product, that job might be: analyze this domain and return three sourced opportunities for review. The tool should define its inputs, output schema, authentication, errors, retries, and stop conditions. The agent should not have to imitate a person clicking through six browser screens every time it needs the same result. MCP is becoming useful here because it gives models a shared way to access tools and data. The MCP Apps extension can also render forms, dashboards, and visualizations inside supported clients. Support still varies, so publishing an MCP server does not automatically create distribution or reliable usage. 4. Let the agent buy within rules Two emerging protocols show where agent commerce is heading. Google launched the Universal Commerce Protocol, co-developed with Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target, Walmart, and others. UCP coordinates parts of the shopping journey, including discovery, checkout, and post-purchase support. Coinbase introduced x402, which embeds stablecoin payment instructions into HTTP so software can pay for APIs or digital resources programmatically. They solve different pieces of the transaction. The operating controls still have to come from the business. Give the agent an approved vendor list, spending limit, expiry, purpose, approval threshold, and stop rule. A $49 purchase from an approved vendor might proceed automatically. A $4,900 purchase from a new vendor should require human approval. Unknown terms or an unrestricted wallet should stop the transaction. 5. Return a receipt a human can defend A server response that says 200 OK tells you almost nothing about whether the business job succeeded. A useful agent receipt should include the request ID, timestamp, vendor identity, inputs, source links, approved amount, actual amount, permission, output, errors, retry state, and measurable result. That receipt matters for trust. It also gives the agent evidence it can bring back to the human who delegated the work. Listings, successful calls, integrations, citations, and clean receipts may eventually influence which products agents select and recommend. No universal ranking formula has been established, so I would treat those as signals to test rather than guaranteed ranking factors. The fastest way to start is an outside-agent audit. Pick one product and one valuable buyer job. Ask an outside agent to: Find the correct product. Explain the offer, pricing, proof, and limitations. Complete one bounded action. Attempt a purchase inside preset rules. Return an auditable receipt. Score each step as blocked, possible with manual rescue, or clear and verifiable. The first failed step becomes the next Agent-Led Growth project for marketing, product, and engineering. If an outside agent tried to buy from your company today, where would it get stuck?
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uint (@uint0x) reportedoh **** they are doing coinbase app store ranking again
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moon (@munjongu977994) reported@juancena2027 Coinbase is rubbish. Garbage is garbage forever, so you have to throw it away.
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Kevin.Stacks (@layeredstacks) reportedSo attacking Coinbase for not accumulating additional ETH is going to motivate them to buy more ETH? It's interesting seeing this angle. BTC maxis are always attacking Brian/Coinbase for supporting "**** coins". And i guess ETH people attack them for not buying more ETH? Kinda crazy TBH.
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bigwil (@bigwil) reportedCrypto is full of shady inside KOL ****. Lots of insider groups bundling coins and shilling them to their exit liquidity followers. @BasecatOnBase is thriving because it's a genuine community token. CTO'd... No bundles. Thriving because everybody got in at the price they deserved. It's why @coinbase is listing it and all of the genuine @base participants are backing it. Don't fall for those KOLs shilling you their bags. Most of them are bottom feeders and down bad sidelined after leaving Base last month. Find something you vibe with/ believe in, and go for it. For now, $BASECAT feels good!
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Ashutosh Singh (@0xAshutosh) reportedIn the next month crypto will win @solana @ethereum @coinbase The $157.8T Tokenization Opportunity Global equities are now worth roughly $157.8T, according to SIFMA's 2026 Capital Markets Fact Book. WFE's end-2025 figure is $151.94T. But don't make the mistake of saying $157.8T is "entering crypto." It is the size of the underlying market that tokenization could potentially transform. The tokenized-equity market is still microscopic. Depending on methodology, 2026 estimates range from roughly $1.9B to $18.2B. Against $157.8T of global equity capitalization, that's approximately: $1.9B → 0.0012% $6.6B → 0.0042% $18.2B → 0.0115% The huge spread exists because different datasets count different things: issuer-sponsored securities, custodial representations, structured products, tracker certificates and synthetic exposure. So the important number isn't a precise tokenized-equity market share. It's how early the market still is. And the infrastructure is no longer theoretical. On January 28, the SEC's staff issued a joint statement clarifying that tokenization does not automatically change a security's legal status. The economic substance still determines whether something is a security. On March 18, the SEC approved Nasdaq's rule change allowing securities to be traded in tokenized form. In July, DTCC processed real production trades using tokenized DTC-held securities, with its broader Tokenization Service targeted for October 2026. More than 50 firms have participated in the industry working group. That's the important transition: Traditional securities → tokenized representation → on-chain trading/settlement infrastructure → programmable financial markets. But we're not at universal 24/7 settlement yet. Today's systems still preserve significant parts of existing clearing, custody and settlement architecture. 24/7 global markets are better understood as a potential end-state of the technology, not what has already shipped. CLARITY is relevant, but it is not the foundation of this thesis. The Senate's cloture vote is currently scheduled for September 15, 2026, and the bill has not become law. The deeper thesis survives either way: The opportunity isn't that $157.8T suddenly moves onto blockchains. It's that one of the world's largest financial markets is beginning to adopt blockchain as a new infrastructure layer. And at roughly 0.01% or less of global equity capitalization currently represented by tokenized equities, the market is still extraordinarily early.
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votesa (@votesa) reportedhard to unsee how much of base's past few weeks read like a speedrun of the robinhood chain playbook stocks. > robinhood chain launched on july 1 with stock tokens as the core product from day one > base had years to put equities onchain and didn't. only after RH went live came the admission they were late and AAPLc NVDAc METAc GOOGLc got rushed onto the chain in record time then the cat. > $CASHCAT is robinhood brand DNA. vlad confirmed the company was almost literally named cash cat, so the meme has lore and feels native to the chain > $BASECAT is the first cell of the most obvious naming spreadsheet. blue cat, some basejuice on the pic and call it culture. max result from min effort. launching it through the o1 exchange pad, the guys who farmed their own users, is the cherry on top then the follows. > vlad followed cashcat (meme) first then index (RWA) > cobie runs the same script beat for beat: follows basecat (meme) at 200 followers then LFI (RWA). after that he starts following everything in sight so it looks less surgical lol then the listings. > cashcat took 36 days from launch to the robinhood app > coinbase went all in on a 9m mc cat: basecat roadmapped 6 days after launch. and they pad the batch with the long awaited DRB plus POD and GRASS so one cat draws less heat genuinely glad base eco is finally getting attention even if it took RH chain existing to force it but robinhood led with a product and a meme that has a story. base answered with the same surface area minus the soul. reactive, templated, rushed. would love to see base write a playbook of its own instead of tracing someone else's. and the camouflage became the problem. co-sign everything and no single co-sign carries weight. dilute attention enough and it stops converting
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Goatbeardz (@GoatBeardzDD) reported@FameBTC Not saying they bought more bitcoin. And that assumption is the issue here. Many people are looking at BTC for a trade. GME raised money to hold it as an asset then did a covered call strategy with coinbase. That’s not trading btc or buying it to pad the balance sheet. It’s liquidity that the company will need to fulfill its digital marketplace backed by crypto.
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Peaceful Warrior (@RanjYousif) reported@TheBlocktoApp $100m/hr sounds huge til you stack it against btc's 24h volume. that's ~0.3% of $29b, and it's already back above 76k ($76.3k on coinbase rn). over-leveraged longs got flushed on a ~1% down day, nothing more
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. (@hmmxavier) reportedRight now, like it or not, the only legit CEXs that don't manipulate the market are Coinbase and Kraken. The rest are dog ****.
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OomDagobert (@OomDagobertDuck) reported@CW8900 Coinbase data confirms the reality. With heavy U.S. sell walls stacked from $1.48 up to $2, the upside is capped. Meanwhile, the Binance Top Trader ratio is still trapped at 2.61 long. Algos will likely hunt down toward that $1.30 whale buy wall before any macro continuation $XRP
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Lauren Stern | Rep (@DesireePerzz) reported@CapitalYere Are you seeing an error when trying to purchase XRP on Uphold, and is Coinbase blocking the XRP transfer at the send/withdrawal step or showing a specific message?
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Crypto Nayem (@realNayem) reportedThe next billion crypto users might not have passports. They might not even be people. Coinbase's AI desk just said the machines are already paying, and almost all of it is USDC. x402 is just the old HTTP 402 code, Payment Required, rebuilt so software can hit a paywall, send a stablecoin, and get the API response with no human typing a card number. Coinbase says more than 165 million of those payments have already cleared, about 50 million dollars through the pipe, tickets around 30 cents. Their AI lead figures 99% is USDC and most of it sits on Base. Cloudflare is building agent wallets with spend caps. Circle is testing nanopayments. MoonPay already lets Claude spend. Visa and Mastercard are not sitting this out. CT is staring at 77k after that squeeze toward 80k and arguing Bessent, Jackson Hole, Clarity. Fine. That is the tape this week. The thing nobody with a big account is posting is that the next demand wave for dollar stables might not be another ETF or another country. It might be agents buying compute and data a few cents at a time, thousands of times an hour. Cards still win the big checkout. They lose the sub-dollar machine loop because 3% on a 30 cent call is a joke. Yes, a chunk of this is still leaderboard farming. Volume is a rounding error versus Visa. I know. That is exactly why it is quiet. Rails get built in the quiet. If this graduates from Napster-era toys, USDC float and cheap L2 settlement get a user class that never opens a Coinbase KYC. Are we going to price that in, or keep pretending the only flow that matters is Friday's ETF print?
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tag (@TGruber83765) reported@coinbase @caseysgenstore I mean it doesn't solve rhe overall issue of the debasement of the dollar since 1941, but I truly believe we WILL see the solution come from crypto, and AI. I have to have hope.
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torvaman (@torvaman_) reported@CoinbaseDuck Also, the most delusional $ETH bulls, usually the ones with the problem, have insane +$100k price targets…so Coinbase doesn’t even need to hold that much to make insane returns according to their own logic lol
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AltOnChain (@AltOnChain) reportedBybit since hacked, down only. Coinbase has been downhill only for years. Binance, since CZ left, never the same. Hyperliquid has only been getting better and better. RobinHood has a HUGE opportunity right now to scoop up a massive piece of the crypto pie.
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moon (@munjongu977994) reported@juancena2027 Coinbase is garbage and it's not something to throw away and take it back.
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Lauren Stern | Rep (@DesireePerzz) reportedAre you seeing an error when trying to purchase XRP on Uphold, and is Coinbase blocking the XRP transfer at the send/withdrawal step or showing a specific message?
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Dawny (@0xDawny) reported@Blockcastcc sell signals dont lie. they projected $319 while dumping to coinbase prime? ****.
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coinbasecorner.eth 🛡️ (@CoinbaseCorner) reported@coinbase eth backed loans are compelling to me, but I'd love a simple toggle that redirects my staking income on my entire eth balance to pay down the loan directly.
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ (@shanaka86) reportedThe US-Iran war is nearing six months and Hormuz is still disrupted. Bitcoin hit 59,125 dollars on June 5, halfway through it. Yesterday it touched nearly 79,500. The war did not end. The flows changed. US spot ETFs took in about 1.61 billion dollars across four sessions, the strongest week of 2026. Thursday alone brought 606 million, and BlackRock's fund took 83 percent of it. Treasury moved to at least double its long-bond buybacks and the 30-year fell from 5.34 to around 5.19. Roughly 4 billion dollars of short positions were destroyed on the way up. Bitcoin answered liquidity and institutional access. It did not answer the war. That looks like failure only if you believe a promise Satoshi never made. The 2008 whitepaper proposed a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that could move without a financial institution. Digital war insurance appears nowhere in it. The haven test failed in both directions anyway, which is the part nobody reports. Bitcoin rose 5.58 percent to 69,364 at the first major escalation in early March while gold managed 1.09. Then gold, which hit 5,595 dollars in January, fell below 4,000 in June during the same war, as oil, yields and dollar demand overwhelmed the safety trade. Neither metal nor code behaved like insurance. Both behaved like assets priced off the cost of money. Payments went somewhere else entirely. Visa puts adjusted stablecoin volume at roughly 10.2 trillion dollars over twelve months across 316 million active wallets. River's modeled estimate for Lightning was about 1.17 billion in a month, real but roughly seven hundred times smaller once annualised, and imprecise because Lightning is private by design. Digital cash arrived at enormous scale. It just arrived denominated in dollars. An asset people expect to appreciate gets hoarded. A unit engineered to sit at one dollar is what you price a salary in. Bitcoin's monetary success may have cost it the payment role it was written for. Capture is really two questions. Custody concentrated hard. US spot ETFs held about 1.21 million coins at the end of Q2. BlackRock's own August 20 filings imply roughly 755,000 inside IBIT. Strategy holds 840,447. Coinbase told shareholders it custodies more than 80 percent of US bitcoin and ether ETF assets. Consensus did not. BIP-110 is the live test, and the dominant chain's current signalling period sits at zero blocks out of 1,952. Institutions can buy the coins. They cannot buy a vote on the rules. The unresolved problem is in the fee data. Transaction fees are running under 1 percent of miner revenue, and MARA reported 0.7 percent last quarter against 1.4 a year earlier. The subsidy halves again in 2028. If stablecoins keep the payments and bitcoin keeps the savings, the winning use case leaves the base layer with less recurring demand than its post-subsidy security eventually needs. Bitcoin is still around 38 percent below its October 2025 high while every one of those things happened at once. Satoshi removed financial institutions from the protocol. The market put them back around the asset. Bitcoin escaped their control over issuance and never escaped the price of capital.
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Ali Kebede (@Sumi_Ali14) reported@BlockchainFXcom @BlockchainFXcom I’m an existing BFX investor. My Coinbase Smart Wallet works with the old dashboard, but the new dashboard says Smart Wallet is not supported. How can I connect the same wallet and access my existing BFX allocation before launch? Please advise.
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80 (@80IQConviction) reported@MillerC0le If NAV goes up, our leverage % (from the coinbase facility) goes down. Thats more meaningful to me than net bitcoin per share and a better indicator to the average investor re the health of the balance sheet and company overall imo
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utxoiq (@utxoiq) reportedViaBTC claimed block 963,494 — coinbase sig confirms it. 4,295 txs, 1.62 MB, 99.8% full. Fee haul: 0.0736 BTC on top of the 3.125 BTC subsidy. That's a 3.1986 BTC total reward. Solid block for the pool. (93% confidence)
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James (@jamesrealezz) reported@CryptoCowboy_AU @fz_cryptox Coinbase showing this much support couldn’t scream bullish any louder if it tried 9 figs on the way
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Gabriel Abi (@gabrielabiramia) reported@brian_armstrong huge deal for the ecosystem. retail finally gets derivative access without leaving Coinbase. the compliance path was long but this matters 👀
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sprintray (@0xSprintray) reportedcoinbase ceo claims Clarity Act stops another FTX collapse spending customer money has always been a crime the bill is useful but that talking point is pure cope
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Kimmie Marie (@marketmuzing) reportedInterest in what @sat0ai actually does is heating up, tied to x402, the machine payment protocol Coinbase keeps talking about. The working theory going around is a converter function that takes in outside payments, turns them into ETH, and splits it 70% to members, 20% operations, 10% safety, with member shares flowing straight to deed holders. It lines up nicely with today's tweet, but nothing on chain names Sato directly yet, so this stays a fun theory and not a confirmed mechanic. base:0xb8d98a102b0079b69ffbc760c8d857a31653e56e
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Captain (@bsvdrip) reported@Anunzio99 @JohnDoethe33rd Yes this is bs? Linking BSV Blockchain to a meme base token via their router and you can’t figure out the problem? Bot armies at it again but instead of warning @coinbase the serious of this matter so their precious exchange doesn’t get fined or sued they choose to troll online recklessly to matters they don’t even understand. The “Buy BSV” button on this links to a base token.