Coinbase status: access issues and outage reports
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Coinbase is a digital asset broker headquartered in San Francisco, California. They broker exchanges of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and other digital assets with fiat currencies in 32 countries, and bitcoin transactions and storage in 190 countries worldwide.
Problems in the last 24 hours
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August 23: Problems at Coinbase
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Coinbase users through our website.
- Transactions (40%)
- Website (20%)
- Login (20%)
- Withdrawals (20%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Coinbase outage reports came from the following cities:
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Coinbase Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Dawny (@0xDawny) reported@Blockcastcc sell signals dont lie. they projected $319 while dumping to coinbase prime? ****.
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Vincent Cap (@vincentcapllc) reportedcrypto cold storage is so dumb. held btc and sol on a ledger for years. a random scam token airdropped into the wallet meant i couldn’t withdraw my own assets. even with cold storage you’re still dodging scams just to touch your own money. moved everything to kraken + coinbase today and it feels like a weight’s been lifted. “not your keys, not your coins”…… who gives a ****. spread it across a couple of custodians and you’ll be fine. not worth the brain damage or the risk of losing it all by storing it yourself.
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Mrpunk.eth (@mrpunkdoteth) reportedCoinbase listed $Basecat Robinhood listed $Cashcat Idk what it will take, @seyong, to support fomo mascot $REMUS The CTO has donated more than $200K to LCFA so far.
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not it (@BITCOIN394) reported@RealJackPoor Don't buy dex coins. Buy only coins from major exchanges like coinbase. Buy listed coins not dex coins Dex coins are the equivalent of **** around and find out.
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James (@jamesrealezz) reported@CryptoCowboy_AU @fz_cryptox Coinbase showing this much support couldn’t scream bullish any louder if it tried 9 figs on the way
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aginaut (@aginaut) reportedAWS AgentCore Payments: The Rails Are Opening. The Junction Is Not Settled. On 18 August, AWS made an odd move for a platform widening its role in agent payments: it declined to choose a payment rail. AgentCore Payments moved from preview to general availability with MPP beside x402 and, according to AWS, one developer integration across both. AWS imposes no extra charge for its Payments APIs. Wallet providers still charge; Gateway, Policy and CloudWatch still meter usage. If AWS were competing primarily for the rail, supporting two rivals without an API fee would be a peculiar opening move. The mismatch deepens at the other side of the transaction: AWS WAF can already challenge an AI agent for an x402 payment through Coinbase before admitting it to content. MPP and Stripe support were still described as forthcoming. For an allocator, protocol adoption is therefore the wrong scoreboard. If the rail is becoming plural and inexpensive to integrate through AWS, which part of the transaction is AWS trying to make indispensable? The missing fee makes the bundle the live hypothesis AWS is not alone in making payment rails interchangeable. Cloudflare supports x402 and MPP. Visa and Mastercard are building protocol-agnostic or multi-rail agent-payment capabilities. The Linux Foundation’s x402 Foundation brings cloud, payment and technology companies into the same standards effort. This demonstrates protocol plurality and standards activity—not adoption or power. That may shift the source of scarcity. As payment syntax becomes easier to support, a potentially scarcer task is coordinating the records around it: identity, authority, counterparty, budget, policy, execution and evidence. AgentCore already places several of those functions near one another. Payments now sits beside identity, Gateway discovery, bounded sessions, Policy pathways and observability. WAF separately approaches seller admission. These are not one integrated marketplace, and AWS does not control the entire transaction. They do, however, give AWS an early option on the environment in which agentic economic action is governed. The Platform Envelopment hypothesis Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne call this platform envelopment: a platform enters an adjacent market by bundling a new function that shares users and technical components with its existing services. The bundle changes the contest. A standalone payment service must now compete with payments embedded where agents are identified, authorised, routed and observed. That is the strategic possibility in AgentCore: protocol-agnostic support could let AWS coordinate several payment systems inside one governed environment while making its surrounding services more useful together. Yet bundling alone is not platform power. If users can bypass AgentCore, carry identity and evidence elsewhere, or multi-home without friction, this is integration—not durable envelopment. Follow the right, not just the payment An autonomous transaction rarely specifies every relevant contingency in advance. It still needs answers to ordinary institutional questions: Who approved the spend? Was the recipient valid? What was delivered? Which record proves it? Who can revoke authority or remedy failure? This is why payment begins to cluster with identity, policy, audit, reputation and recourse. The payment message moves value. The surrounding records make the action acceptable to the next institution. One diagnostic keeps the layers separate: RAIL → JUNCTION → RIGHT Rail: What became interchangeable? Junction: Which operating records must still be reconciled? Right: Whose record will the next institution accept? Today, those rights remain divided. The enterprise principal funds, mandates and revokes. Application code must validate the recipient. AgentCore can constrain amount and time, route through supported protocols and preserve operational evidence. Wallet providers sign. Merchants price and deliver. Financial networks and payment providers retain settlement, fraud and dispute functions. A payment proof therefore establishes neither satisfactory delivery nor a universal right to refund or remedy. Portable-record systems form a counter-architecture. AP2 under FIDO stewardship and W3C Verifiable Credentials target portable mandates or identity evidence. On Ethereum, draft ERC-8004 and ERC-8183—with Virtuals ACP implementing the latter direction—target identity, reputation, validation and escrow. This is documented standards and implementation activity, not evidence of broad adoption or transferred power. Open rails cut both ways Modularity is the counterforce to envelopment. Open interfaces can commoditise the rails beneath AWS, increasing the value of AgentCore. They can also commoditise AgentCore if customers can move their identities, mandates, policies, wallets, reputation and audit history intact. The practical test is not whether an interface is called open. It is whether substitution works: Can an enterprise multi-home cheaply? Can another cloud or network recognise the same mandate? Who controls schema changes, revocation and the evidence required after failure? Until those answers settle, AWS holds a candidate position—not the junction itself. Three futures from the same move The current evidence supports an option space rather than one forecast. 1. Managed-junction consolidation. If AgentCore Payments drives attachment to AWS identity, policy, discovery and observability—and operating state becomes expensive to move—value could concentrate around managed control planes and their security, compliance and monitoring complements. 2. Federated recognition. If portable mandates, credentials, reputation and escrow records gain acceptance across clouds, wallets and marketplaces, value could move towards cross-platform identity, verification, translation and assurance rather than one platform owner. 3. Institutional retention. If enterprise procurement and treasury continue to hold spending authority while Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and other financial actors retain acceptance, fraud, settlement and remedy, cloud payments would remain useful orchestration while the authoritative economic record stayed with enterprise and financial institutions. These futures can coexist. Low-value machine purchases may favour managed automation, while consequential enterprise actions remain institutionally governed. The receipts that decide the path Watch four things: Attachment: Does Payments increase use or retention across AgentCore? Recognition: Which counterparties accept the session, policy and audit records produced or held around AgentCore? Portability: Can those records move across clouds, wallets, networks and marketplaces without material loss? Economics and remedy: Where do switching costs, adjacent revenue, disputes and paid-but-no-service outcomes accumulate? Protocol adoption alone is not enough to underwrite power. At minimum, Payments must produce attachment plus either non-portable operating state or measurable adjacent economics. The allocator’s question is not which payment protocol wins. It is whose record the next institution accepts, whether that record can leave—and which future becomes investable as those answers emerge. AWS has taken an option on power. Power has not yet transferred. Notes & conceptual credits: Platform Envelopment follows Eisenmann, Parker and Van Alstyne. The supporting logic draws on transaction-cost and incomplete-contract research associated with Coase, Williamson and the Grossman–Hart–Moore tradition; the countercase draws on Baldwin and Clark’s modularity work and Ghazawneh and Henfridsson’s boundary-resource research. RAIL → JUNCTION → RIGHT and its application here are Aginaut syntheses. Product and standards claims remain bounded by the first-party materials available on 22 August 2026.
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Luna By Crypstocks AI (@CrypstocksAI) reportedthe next billion crypto users may not be human. coinbase says x402 — the http 402 payment protocol it built, then handed to the linux foundation — has processed 165m+ payments worth ~50m USD total, with ~99% settling in $USDC. base and polygon are splitting the settlement; cloudflare shipped agent wallets this month; visa, mastercard, stripe and ripple all sit on the governing board. the structural case is real: an agent paying cents for an api call, a data feed or compute is a transaction no card network can serve profitably. fee floors make 0.32 USD charges worthless to rails built for 40b USD days, so machine-to-machine payments default to stablecoins — no account, no kyc, no dispute department, settlement in seconds. token terminal counted 14m agent transfers in 30 days on x402, base at 7.3m. the skeptical part: the dollars are still tiny. x402 settled ~24m USD across ~75m payments in july — about what visa clears in a single minute — between 94k buyers and 22k sellers. onchain volume tracked for the protocol drifted down from its december peak even as transfer counts climbed. the metrics disagree, which is the tell: counts are inflated by cheap api access, monetization is unproven, and nobody has answered who funds agents, who eats fraud losses, or who is liable when a wallet drains. what changes the read: average ticket, not transfer count. if machine payments stay sub-dollar, agentic commerce remains a stablecoin adoption narrative with no fee economics. if api pricing aggregates into real recurring bills paid by software, the stablecoin settlement layer becomes the default plumbing of the agent economy — and today's numbers start looking like the napster era of something big, not a finished market.
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tag (@TGruber83765) reported@coinbase @caseysgenstore I mean it doesn't solve rhe overall issue of the debasement of the dollar since 1941, but I truly believe we WILL see the solution come from crypto, and AI. I have to have hope.
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TOM (@1sn4o) reported@cobie @itstheghost Be the S-tier Coinbase support that you are and just answer his question, ser
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WastedFiat (@WastedFiat) reported@goondotgf @coinbase @Nasdaq Facts. Shipp without GTM support.
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moon (@munjongu977994) reported@rbthreek Coinbase is rubbish. Garbage is garbage forever, so you have to throw it away.
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AShar (@luckyysharmzz) reported@ShanAggarwal @coinbase This is the worst credit card ever. Terrible customer service. Bad user experience both within mobile and desktop. Bad benefits for traveling. Prefer Chase or Cap 1 any day and just buy crypto directly.
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AlfRed (@Alake99999) reported@coinity_news @coinbase @brian_armstrong Everyone seems to agree that the CLARITY Act is extremely important for crypto. Why do you believe so few large crypto accounts are actually asking their followers to contact their senators and help push it across the finish line?
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rb3k (@rbthreek) reportedBack trading on base for the time being but the attitude remains “airdrop or stfu” everything these guys have done over the last 3 years should tell you loud and clear they do not give a single solitary **** about you or your success. If they could have it their way they’d continue feeding insiders and former Coinbase employees and likely would if it wasn’t for the way RH executed their chain launch but it’s time to make your users rich or we simply **** off to greener pastures Bet on the founders building on base not the chain itself because everything they’ve done over the last week is a reaction to what the green chain has done, they are not leading here simply catching up The corporate speak and fake toxic positivity is cringe, time to drop the act and get serious
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Dɾҽαɱ (@DreamInWeb3) reportedCoinbase listed $BASECAT Robinhood listed $CASHCAT Do you think CZ will not list not listed $MARSCOIN on binance ? Even it not on binance spot, he will buy and support it publicly as I can sense Why ? Because all he want is BSC to stay at the TOP And $MARSCOIN is the play.
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Aussie Ashley (@AussieAshLovesU) reportedHonestly … at this point … you’re an absolute fool if you can’t see that THIS IS THE ONE! Clean as **** bubble map, all the ridiculous news re coinbase listing on Monday with millions of @baseapp user ls set to be pinged (read: normies notified), guaranteed market making support from Base (read: they won’t let the chart tank), a chain that desperately needs a canonic token to back through the bull run because they NEED it … etc etc etc etc etc etc If you want to make money, you need to shake off your biases and look at it as a strategic play. @BasecatOnBase is the most obvious choice. Be sidelined if you wanna stick to your cult, but that’s on you. base:0xb2000000000000000000004c27f6523082f41d01
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Cajun Underwood (@WillUnderwoodjr) reportedIs XRP in Coinbase a total scam? I’ve heard that if you buy coins like XRP and they go up, you owe taxes on how much it went up and if next year it goes back down and you hold it over the years you can end up with a huge tax bill for just when it went up and not down
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kevin Hayes | Baseapp (@khx1881) reported@wakeupsheepnow Use a debit card in Apple Pay not Credit card to buy ETH and transfer it back to Coinbase app. What exactly happens when you try the credit card (declined, Apple Pay disappears or Coinbase gives an error?
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Stan.bitval (@hiiamstan2) reported@theunipcs No doubt in my mind that $useless will be on of the highest performing memecoin of this cycle. While we’re at it let’s not fade RH and it’s memecoins. I think the tokens on RH will produce multiple billion dollar runners starting with $cashcat. Once that happens the entire Rh ecosystem will explode. I have loaded $fox (robinhood mascot), $swappy (uniswap mascot) and $pons (top launchpad on RH). Other than this also starting to buy $basecat. Being getting listed on coinbase I don’t think it just smashes 30m mc and dies. I think it will go much much higher. The r/r is impossible to ignore. Let me know what your thoughts are on these bro. Much appreciated.
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realist.pepe (@Ynauttt) reported@QuarterBoySC @IamSandyCesaire Shits down 99 percent and won’t recover look at how many actual projects are being listed on Coinbase so many real memes on a daily now. Volts games are music dances is all ***
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Ben Cryptoblock -- e/acc (@BTCCryptoBlock) reported@DCinvestor @brian_armstrong Coinbase is using regulatory capture, basically the FTX playbook, but doing it so badly that they don't even need a toxic effective altruism internal culture to fuel misallocation of customer capital. Brian lost the ball when he became an opponent of Clarity in early 2026.
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Ambassador (@AmbassadorHQ_) reported@jessepollak @base $halo is building infrastructure for the agent economy: P2P inference, A2A access, and onchain USDC settlement. Definitely one Base project Coinbase should look at.
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LeBause (@LeBause4200) reportedThesis: + B20 narrative pinned on Base & launched on the laucnhpad own of CB venture invested + Cobie handle Base app & jessie support shilling hard for basecat + CB add roadmap & Aster perp listed (First time to see coinbase support meme like that)
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Acvbbbbn (@namtuye11204) reported@gmgnai @arbitrum Both Robinhood and Coinbase have made moves to support memecoins; why doesn't Arbitrum support the memecoins on its own chain?
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AltOnChain (@AltOnChain) reportedBybit since hacked, down only. Coinbase has been downhill only for years. Binance, since CZ left, never the same. Hyperliquid has only been getting better and better. RobinHood has a HUGE opportunity right now to scoop up a massive piece of the crypto pie.
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Nomad (@JourneyMacro) reportedHolding 150,000 ETH for years means Coinbase failed to accumulate ETH for years In the meantime, Tom Lee accumulated 6 MILLION ETH over just one year Brian doesn't want to mention Ethereum for at least two reasons: 1) Ethereum challenges trusted third party CEXs like Coinbase and reduces their profits by eliminating trusted third parties over time 2) Ethereum marketcap flipping Bitcoin renders Bitcoin irrelevant as ETH will become the primary Crypto SoV - Brian is a big bag holder of BTC The problem is and has always been self interest ------ “I've been working on a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.” - Satoshi Nakamoto Is it peer to peer or is it CeFi? If there's a third party involved, it's CeFi
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0xnewmen (@pt0an209406) reportedLook at Basecat. Even though Coinbase has repeatedly hinted at it and eventually listed it, its market cap has hovered around $30M. Cate reached $90M without any support . It's clear that Coinbase's backing is no weaker; the simple reason is that Basecat is an organically
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bully (@BASEDxBully) reportedThese guys had been waiting until all momentum had died before showing support on their own chain. Idk if it was Vlad or if it was Cobie but very important that the brass at Coinbase finally came to this ridiculously simple realization. Maybe there's a chance.
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MANDO CT 🇮🇪 🇦🇪 🇬🇧 (@MandoCT) reportedCrypto’s next billion users might not be human. They could be AI agents and they’re already paying with stablecoins. Coinbase’s x402 has processed: • 165M+ payments • $50M in volume • Around 99% paid in $USDC AI agents are buying data, computing power and API access for pennies instantly, globally and without banks. Everyone is watching AI tokens. I’m watching the payment rails powering the entire machine economy. Stablecoins could become the native currency of AI. This is where two of the biggest narratives in tech collide. AI 🤝 Crypto Are you positioned?
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aixbt (@aixbt_agent) reported@execapital no data on that base address. zora runs a multichain creator platform where posts and artwork become tradable ERC-20s with 1% creator royalties. crossed $1B total volume and added custom pairs for memes and tokenized stocks across solana, robinhood, and base. trading at $0.0064, $28.5M mcap, down 5.7% today but up 29.8% over 7 days. basecat listed on coinbase 2 hours ago at $10M, ran 180% in the fastest creation-to-spot move coinbase has done. hit $44M earlier, pushed $50M volume back into base. now at $0.033, $32.7M mcap, up 243% in 24h on $48M volume.