# Coinbase > The easiest place to buy and sell cryptocurrency Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange and financial services platform. It lets individuals, institutions, and developers buy, sell, store, and build on digital assets. Coinbase is a publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange and financial services company serving individuals, institutions, and developers worldwide. It provides a platform to buy, sell, transfer, and store digital assets, alongside expanding access to equities, derivatives, and prediction markets. The company positions itself as a broad venue for accessing multiple asset classes from a single account, aiming to expand participation in digital finance. The platform combines a consumer-facing exchange with an institutional arm and a developer-focused offering. Retail users trade spot cryptocurrencies, earn rewards through staking, and access lending and card products, while institutions use dedicated custody and prime brokerage services. Developers can build onchain applications through a developer platform that offers wallet infrastructure, data access, and other tooling. The company operates under licenses and registrations across the jurisdictions it serves. Coinbase's product range spans its core exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutional clients, and the Coinbase Developer Platform for builders, along with staking, borrowing, and payment card products. It also issues and supports stablecoins and wrapped assets and facilitates trading across a range of supported assets and networks. The platform serves retail investors, institutional asset managers, and application developers across a large number of countries. - Type: Company - Sector: Finance - Status: Active - Founded: 2012-06-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase ## Products - [Base App](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): Base App, formerly Coinbase Wallet, is a self-custody wallet that provides multi-chain asset storage and management. It lets users hold private keys, connect to decentralized applications, swap tokens, and hold NFTs across multiple blockchains. The app combines social feed, messaging, and payment features with passkey-based authentication and smart wallet functionality that sponsors transaction fees. Users can also earn yield on stablecoin balances directly within the wallet interface. (Wallet, Live) - [Coinbase Exchange](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): Coinbase Exchange is a centralized cryptocurrency trading platform supporting multiple digital assets with fiat currency integration for markets such as USD, EUR, and GBP. It provides spot trading execution with a maker-taker fee structure, automated conversion services, and integrated custody for user balances. The platform also offers staking rewards for supported assets, educational programs, and bank account connectivity for deposits and withdrawals across multiple countries. (Centralised Exchange, Live, Main Product) - [Coinbase Advanced](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): Coinbase Advanced is a trading terminal offering professional charting with technical indicators, drawing tools, and multi-timeframe analysis. It supports advanced order types including limit, market, stop-limit, and bracket orders, alongside real-time order book visualization. Users can access smart order routing, portfolio margin, and algorithmic execution through APIs for automated trading strategies. (Trading Terminal, Live) - [Coinbase Prime](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): Coinbase Prime is a prime brokerage platform for institutional clients that combines trading execution, qualified custody, and financing services. It provides multi-venue smart order routing, custodial storage, and portfolio margining across multiple assets. Institutional features include algorithmic trading APIs, over-the-counter block execution, staking infrastructure across multiple networks, and onchain wallet operations governed by a policy engine. (Custodian, Live) - [Coinbase Card](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): Coinbase Card is a debit card enabling cryptocurrency spending at merchants globally with automatic conversion to fiat at point-of-sale. Users select funding sources from their Coinbase account balances, including fiat or supported cryptocurrencies, with conversion executing during transactions. The card offers rotating crypto rewards on eligible purchases with no annual fees or credit requirements. (Card, Live) - [Coinbase Payments](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): Coinbase Payments is developer infrastructure within the Coinbase Developer Platform for accepting and sending stablecoin payments. It provides wallet-native checkout experiences, application programming interfaces for payment operations, treasury management, and fiat on and off-ramps, with smart contract settlement led by a rollup network. The infrastructure supports a range of stablecoins and includes native integration for agentic payments, allowing autonomous software agents to transact directly. It abstracts blockchain complexity while enabling continuous global payment processing for businesses building on top of it. (Merchant Payment Gateway, Live) - [AgentKit](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): AgentKit is a developer framework that enables AI agents to interact with blockchain networks through secure wallet management and onchain capabilities. It provides a wide range of blockchain actions across multiple wallet providers while remaining compatible with various AI models and development tools. Developers use it to build autonomous agents capable of holding assets, executing trades, and interacting with smart contracts. (Developer Tooling, Live) - [Coinbase Stocks](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): Coinbase Stocks is a brokerage platform for trading equities and exchange-traded funds with zero-commission execution. The platform supports fractional share purchases from small minimums, extended-hours trading, and unified portfolio management alongside cryptocurrency holdings. Users fund accounts with fiat or stablecoin balances from their existing account, with a third-party partner providing execution, clearing, and custody services. (Centralised Exchange, Live) - [Coinbase Prediction Markets](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): Coinbase Prediction Markets is a platform for trading on the outcomes of real-world events, including sports, crypto, and political outcomes. Users buy and sell outcome shares whose prices reflect market-implied probabilities, with positions settling based on the actual event result. The product is integrated into the main Coinbase trading account. (Prediction Markets, Live) - [Coinbase Business](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): Coinbase Business is an all-in-one crypto financial account for startups and small and medium-sized businesses. It combines global crypto payment acceptance through payment links, invoices, and checkouts with payouts to vendors and contractors, alongside spot trading and custody across a wide range of crypto assets. The account also offers yield on idle stablecoin balances and integrates with accounting software for bookkeeping and tax reporting. Settlement for payments is powered by a rollup network, and the product is positioned as the successor to Coinbase Commerce for merchant payment acceptance. (Merchant Payment Gateway, Live) ## Assets - [CBBTC Coinbase Wrapped BTC (cbBTC)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): cbBTC is a wrapped Bitcoin token issued by Coinbase that is backed 1:1 by Bitcoin held in Coinbase custody. It is used as collateral in DeFi lending protocols and for providing liquidity across multiple blockchains. Coinbase customers can automatically convert BTC to cbBTC when sending to supported networks, and cbBTC automatically converts back to BTC when deposited to Coinbase accounts. (Wrapped Tokens) - [Coinbase Wrapped DOGE (cbDOGE)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): cbDOGE is a wrapped Dogecoin token issued by Coinbase that is backed 1:1 by Dogecoin held in Coinbase custody. It is used to move Dogecoin value onto Base for use in decentralized applications and liquidity pools. Coinbase customers can convert DOGE to cbDOGE when sending to Base, and cbDOGE automatically converts back to DOGE when deposited to Coinbase accounts. (Wrapped Tokens) - [Coinbase Wrapped XRP (cbXRP)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): cbXRP is a wrapped XRP token issued by Coinbase that is backed 1:1 by XRP held in Coinbase custody. It is used to bring XRP liquidity onto Base for use in decentralized applications. Coinbase customers can convert XRP to cbXRP when sending to Base, and cbXRP automatically converts back to XRP when deposited to Coinbase accounts. (Wrapped Tokens) - [Coinbase Wrapped LTC (cbLTC)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): cbLTC is a wrapped Litecoin token issued by Coinbase that is backed 1:1 by Litecoin held in Coinbase custody. It is used to move Litecoin value onto Base for use in decentralized applications and liquidity pools. Coinbase customers can convert LTC to cbLTC when sending to Base, and cbLTC automatically converts back to LTC when deposited to Coinbase accounts. (Wrapped Tokens) - [Coinbase Wrapped ADA (cbADA)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): cbADA is a wrapped Cardano token issued by Coinbase that is backed 1:1 by ADA held in Coinbase custody. It is used to bring Cardano liquidity onto Base for use in decentralized applications. Coinbase customers can convert ADA to cbADA when sending to Base, and cbADA automatically converts back to ADA when deposited to Coinbase accounts. (Wrapped Tokens) - [Coinbase Wrapped MEGA (cbMEGA)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): cbMEGA is a wrapped MegaETH token issued by Coinbase that is backed 1:1 by MEGA held in Coinbase custody. It is used to bring MegaETH liquidity onto Base for use in decentralized applications. Coinbase customers can convert MEGA to cbMEGA when sending to Base, and cbMEGA automatically converts back to MEGA when deposited to Coinbase accounts. (Wrapped Tokens) - [Coinbase Wrapped Staked ETH (cbETH)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Coinbase): cbETH is a liquid staking token issued by Coinbase that represents Ether staked through Coinbase's staking infrastructure. It allows holders to access liquidity for their staked ETH while continuing to accrue staking rewards, and can be used as collateral or for liquidity provision in DeFi applications. Unlike other Coinbase wrapped assets, cbETH does not convert 1:1 with ETH but instead accrues value over time to reflect staking rewards. 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