Coinbase

Coinbase was founded in June 2012 in San Francisco by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam and incorporated in May 2012 as Coinbase, Inc., a Delaware corporation. The holding company, Coinbase Global, Inc., was incorporated in January 2014 and its Class A stock trades on Nasdaq under COIN. It is remote-first and states in its annual report that it does not maintain a headquarters.

It builds a crypto and financial platform: consumer trading of crypto, stocks, futures and prediction markets, Coinbase Prime and four exchanges for institutions (Coinbase Exchange, Coinbase International Exchange, Coinbase Derivatives Exchange and Deribit), plus Base, an Ethereum layer-2 network, the Base App wallet, USDC arrangements, staking, custody, Coinbase One and the Coinbase Developer Platform.

Coinbase had 4,951 employees on December 31, 2025, according to its 2025 annual report. Staff work from wherever suits them in the US and abroad. The annual report cover lists a New York address only to meet SEC requirements.