About Coinbase Global, Inc.
Coinbase Global, Inc. is an American company that operates a cryptocurrency exchange and crypto-asset platform for consumers, institutions, and developers in the United States and internationally. Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam founded the company in 2012 in San Francisco, California. Coinbase went public through a direct listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange in April 2021, and its Class A common stock trades under the ticker symbol COIN. The company is headquartered at One Madison Avenue in New York, New York. Its main products and services include a retail cryptocurrency brokerage and trading platform for consumers, Coinbase Prime for institutional prime brokerage and liquidity, and a suite of developer and onchain tools for building and interacting with decentralized applications. Coinbase operates in the cryptocurrency and crypto-asset industry, which falls under financial technology and financial infrastructure. It is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the United States by trading volume and user base.
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