Coinbase Global, Inc.
Compliance snapshot
- MiCA CASP authorization — CBI, Ireland — covers EU/EEA passporting
- FinCEN MSB registered (US) and NYDFS BitLicense holder
- No major security incident affecting customer assets since 2021
Publicly listed group with a MiCA CASP authorization in the EU, federal and state-level US registrations, and no material unresolved enforcement matters.
Licenses & registrations
- IrelandAuthorizedMiCA CASP authorizationCentral Bank of IrelandCBIC-IE-2025-01872025-01-30Verify at source
- United StatesRegisteredMSB registrationFinancial Crimes Enforcement NetworkFinCEN31000-1120-44822013-06-11Verify at source
- United States (NY)AuthorizedBitLicense / trust charterNew York State Department of Financial ServicesNYDFSNY-VC-2017-00312017-01-17Verify at source
- United KingdomRegisteredCryptoasset firm registration (AML)Financial Conduct AuthorityFCAFRN 9006352020-08-14Verify at source
- SingaporeAuthorizedMajor Payment Institution licence (DPT)Monetary Authority of SingaporeMASPS202301142023-10-02Verify at source
- LuxembourgAuthorizedMiCA CASP authorization (home state)Commission de Surveillance du Secteur FinancierCSSFESMA MiCA register — Coinbase (CSSF, Luxembourg)2025-06-20Verify at source
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Recent press
- 2026-07-30Coinbase Q2: record crypto trading volume market sharePositive
Coinbase Investor Relations — Coinbase reported record 10.3% trading-volume market share and its 14th consecutive quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA.
- 2026-07-22Coinbase expands EU operations under MiCA passportPositive
Reuters — The exchange said it will serve all EEA markets from its Irish entity following its CASP authorization.
- 2026-06-05Institutional custody assets reach new highPositive
Bloomberg — Custodied assets for institutional clients grew on the back of ETF-related mandates.
- 2026-04-18Regulators press exchanges on market surveillanceNeutral
Financial Times — Coinbase is among several venues asked to detail trade-surveillance controls to European supervisors.
- 2026-02-27Brief outage during high-volatility sessionNegative
CoinDesk — Users reported degraded order entry for roughly 40 minutes; the company said no funds were affected.
- 2025-12-09Quarterly results beat expectations on custody feesPositive
Reuters — Revenue mix continued to shift toward recurring custody and staking services.
Incidents & enforcement
- 2026-05-07Outage
Roughly 50-minute platform-wide outage caused by a configuration change during a routine update; Coinbase published a postmortem.
- 2025-11-06FineEUR 21,500,000
Central Bank of Ireland fined Coinbase Europe Ltd EUR 21.5M for AML transaction-monitoring failures: coding errors left about 31% of transactions (over EUR 176bn) unscreened in 2021-2022; roughly 2,700 suspicious-activity reports were filed after re-screening.
- 2025-05-15Hack
Insider-assisted data breach: bribed overseas support agents leaked personal data of roughly 70,000 customers (names, contact details, partial identifiers). A USD 20M extortion demand was refused; remediation and reimbursements were estimated at USD 180-400M. No funds or credentials were compromised.
- 2023-07-19Enforcement
State securities regulators issued show-cause orders regarding staking-as-a-service products; resolved with disclosure changes.
- 2023-01-04FineUSD 50,000,000
NYDFS consent order over historical AML and KYC backlog controls.
- 2021-09-20Outage
Platform degradation during a high-volume trading window; no customer asset loss reported.
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Profile last reviewed 27 Aug 2026 (2026-08-27)