Ark Invest Offloads $21M in Coinbase Shares as COIN Price Surges

Ark Invest has sold 74,291 Coinbase shares, valued at $20.8 million, across three exchange-traded funds, per their latest trade filing on Monday. This sale comes following the firm’s sale of over $100 million worth of Coinbase shares last week when the price of COIN reached new yearly highs. Ark Invest Sells Coinbase Shares Ark Invest has sold shares from its ETFs: 57,652 from Innovation ETF (ARKK) worth $16.1M, 12,544 from Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) worth $3.5M, and 4,095 from…

De.Fi Sold Out $5M Round. OKX, Binance & Coinbase Directors among Investors. The Sale is Still Open

De.Fi, a SocialFi & Antivirus SuperApp, has reached a significant milestone with the launch of De.Fi 2.0. Currently in the spotlight is the ongoing $DEFI token public sale, opened to users that want to join 2.0 Ecosystem. The project has already raised an impressive $5 million. The De.Fi Super App as of now, has reached over 3 Million unique users, with big names like CoinGecko, Arbitrum, zkSync, and London and Montreal Universities that trust to power their platforms with their…

De.Fi 2.0 Sold Out Instantly for a $1M Round. OKX, and Binance & Coinbase Directors are among their Investors

The De.Fi Super App as of now, has reached over 3 Million unique users. De.Fi started during DeFi Summer in 2020 as a group of passionate Yield Farmers, and during these last three years of development, they successfully led the resolution of multiple industry issues and grew our user base over 100X.  Web3 is the Wild West as 90% of the tokens in Uniswap are considered rug pulls, and honeypot scams per academic research. Learning this is when the De.Fi…

Coinbase Lists KAVA, Advancing Ethereum–Cosmos Interoperability

Today, Coinbase has listed Kava and will launch a massive Learning Rewards Campaign to educate its user base about how Kava is leading the world to Web3. Kava is a decentralized layer-1 blockchain that combines the speed and interoperability of Cosmos with the developer power of Ethereum. Kava has spent the last year building a deep integration with Coinbase that optimizes the process for Cosmos SDK chains to integrate with Coinbase helping to drive new liquidity to the Cosmos ecosystem. Unlocking…

Coinbase Predicts No Reprieve for Altcoins in 2023

In its latest report, crypto exchange Coinbase predicts the crypto bear market will extend for many more months. The company’s research team believes this year’s deleveraging cycle has harmed the investors' interest in altcoins. A Flight to Bitcoin and Ethereum Per the company’s report released on Wednesday, the multiple insolvencies plaguing the crypto industry have crushed investor confidence in the space. This is likely to extend the crypto winter well into 2023. “Constraints on liquidity may also disrupt normal market…

Coinbase Wallet Delists XRP and 3 Others, Cites Low Usage

According to an update on the crypto platform’s help page, Coinbase wallet will no longer support payment network Ripple’s XRP token. The digital asset is not the only cryptocurrency Coinbase has delisted as Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum Classic, and Stellar will also be unavailable. Coinbase Halts Wallet Support for XRP, BCH, ETC, and XLM The delisting will take effect from January next year and Coinbase’s wallet application will drop support for the aforementioned tokens. Coinbase Wallet like MetaMask and similar providers…

Coinbase Trading Revenue Down 44% After “Mixed” Third Quarter

America’s largest crypto exchange, Coinbase, has unveiled its Q3 2022 earnings report – and the results are a bit jumbled. While the firm had a roughly $300 million drop in expenses from last quarter, the company’s total revenue also fell by 24%. Slow Trading Season for Coinbase The third quarter shareholder letter showed transaction revenue at $366 million, taking a substantial 44% slash versus Q2. Meanwhile, total trading volume on the platform fell about 27%, from $217 billion to $159…

Coinbase Takes Ripple’s Side in Lawsuit With SEC

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is seeking permission to file an amicus brief supporting Ripple Labs in its legal battle with a top federal regulator.  The company argues that the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) lawsuit against Ripple is unprincipled, and violates due process. Coinbase’s Defense for Ripple Per the amicus brief dated Monday, Coinbase claims the SEC did not provide fair notice that Ripple’s conduct was illegal, prior to suing the firm. An amicus curiae is a third party that isn’t…

Ex-Coinbase Manager’s Brother Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading Charges

Nikhil Wahi – brother to former Coinbase Product Manager Ishan Wahi – has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy using confidential information.  Guilty As Charged As reported by Reuters, the ex-manager’s brother confessed during a virtual court hearing in front of a Manhattan judge. He admitted to making cryptocurrency trades based on confidential information from his brother, who used to work at Coinbase. "I knew that it was wrong to receive Coinbase's confidential information and make trades based on that…

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