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  Valarie M (@valpal1919) reported 18 seconds ago

  A simple way to understand XRP price action: Most people watch news, ETFs, institutions, and OTC deals. But the price you see on apps like Coinbase, Binance, Uphold, Kraken, etc. is mostly shaped by activity on public exchanges. That means price moves when buyers and sellers meet on those exchanges. If retail traders leave the market, volume drops. Lower volume means fewer active buyers. When fewer people are buying, it becomes easier for selling pressure to push the price down. So even if long-term institutional interest is growing, the short-term market price can still fall if exchange demand is weak. That does not automatically mean XRP is “dead.” It can simply mean retail participation is low, trading volume is down, and sellers have more control for now. ETFs, institutional custody, and OTC activity may matter long term, but they do not always create immediate buying pressure on public exchanges. That’s why XRP can have strong long-term narratives while still looking weak in the short term. Simple version: Price = what buyers and sellers are doing right now on exchanges. Adoption = what may build value over time. Those two things are connected, but they are not always the same thing.

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  𝚠𝚘𝚕𝚏⚡️ (@elong_tusks) reported 2 minutes ago

  @rwitoff @coinbase App isn’t working still… you people are CLOWNS 🤡 💩💩

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  William J Davis. (@ADHD_7899) reported 2 minutes ago

  CEO Matthew Prince's statement is one of the most noteworthy sentences in the tech industry this week: "AI and AI agents are now a core part of our working team, and the way Cloudflare works has fundamentally changed." This follows exactly the same logical structure as Meta, just on a smaller scale. Earlier this week, Coinbase announced layoffs of 14% (approximately 700 people), with the reason similarly citing AI hiring. Upwork announced layoffs of nearly one-quarter of its workforce, conducting a large-scale restructuring. The nature of this wave of layoffs is fundamentally different from past cyclical layoffs. In the past, corporate layoffs were typically accompanied by declining revenue and compressed profits; the current trigger for layoffs is often earnings beats, but simultaneously announcing large-scale AI capex. Layoffs are not because the company is doing poorly, but because the capital allocation priority order has already changed. --- **Investment Summary** The core logic of this round of market movement can be described with a simple capital flow chain: hyperscalers are releasing human capital costs, converting them into GPU and infrastructure procurement, creating enormous demand for Nvidia, memory manufacturers, storage manufacturers, and optical component manufacturers, driving scarcity repricing across the entire hardware supply chain. Nvidia is the largest beneficiary in this chain, with its market cap increasing by over $1 trillion from the March 30 low, currently trading at 43x P/E and 65% operating margin. But the market is already looking beyond Nvidia for the next bottleneck. The valuation recovery of memory, storage, and foundry is still in a relatively early stage. If Intel's Apple foundry agreement is ultimately finalized, the significance for Intel's foundry business goes far beyond the financial figures themselves — it would be the first top-tier consumer electronics brand to officially endorse Intel's foundry capability, changing the market's narrative about the long-term viability of the advanced foundry space (though the immediate competitive impact on TSMC is of course negligible). Akamai's +27% today came from Anthropic's $1.8 billion, seven-year cloud infrastructure contract. The scramble by AI companies for computing resources has already spread to the tier of what was previously considered purely traditional CDN operators. This is also one of the most illustrative cases of the depth to which AI infrastructure investment is spreading.

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  Zoodles (@zoodlesonchain) reported 4 minutes ago

  @realharmoni @therealbrittfit you work for Coinbase? We would love to support your charity bot can we donate?

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  Whales Money (@WhalesMoneyX) reported 6 minutes ago

  Coinbase is back online after a massive seven-hour outage that paralyzed the platform on Friday. The disruption left users unable to trade for nearly the entire Asian business day. Here is a breakdown of what happened and why it matters for the crypto ecosystem.

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  Jim Abbott (@CynicalHodler) reported 8 minutes ago

  Coinbase has a systemwide issue with their app but they apparently don't know what's going on. Concerning.

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  0xsunnydiaz (@0xsunny_diaz) reported 8 minutes ago

  @coinbase 27-7 is a big stretch on coinbase reality, ill just say will be working sometimes

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  Gustavo Maldonado (@tweetthis101) reported 9 minutes ago

  Coinbase’s pivot to AI-led operations is not going so well On Friday, the company said a cooling failure inside Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN), helped trigger a multi-hour outage that hit trading, exchange access, and balance updates across its platform. The problem began at roughly 23:50 UTC on May 7th when internal monitors detected a widespread breakout of quote failures within the company’s systems. At that point, several Sev1 incidents were created by the engineers, and customers were already impacted in terms of services like spot trading, Coinbase Prime, International, derivatives, Retail, Advanced, and Institutional exchanges. Brian Armstrong, who is the CEO of Coinbase, wrote on X that his company “experienced an outage” and that such an occurrence was “never acceptable.” According to him, the reason behind it was “a room overheating in an AWS data center due to multiple chillers failing.” According to Brian, the company ensures that all their services are designed in such a way that they do not go offline in case one AWS availability zone fails. The majority of services are structured this way, except for the exchange, which uses a different infrastructure due to its high latency demands. Coinbase blames failed AWS chillers as quote systems start breaking before midnight UTC It was reported by Cryptopolitan earlier that Coinbase is planning to terminate 700 workers from their staff because it constitutes approximately 14% of the total workforce. And this is done with the intention of replacing manual processes with AI. Rob Witoff, who heads the Platform of Coinbase, gave the technical details of the matter. As per him, the outage lasted for a long time and affected “trading, exchange access, and balance updates.” The initial warning came about at 23:50 UTC due to quote failures emanating from within the internal systems. An immediate Sev1 analysis followed. According to Rob, the cause of this challenge was a “thermal event” in a small percentage of racks in one of the facilities in AWS us-east-1. Such a structure for the exchange infrastructure came in handy. Rob said that Coinbase maintains its exchange infrastructure in one availability zone, as the industry values speed. Additionally, the firm has a distributed backup copy of this exchange infrastructure in case of such scenarios. But the failure of one part of the exchange infrastructure in question at the moment did not stay within its boundaries, prolonging the process of fixing the situation. Two components failed. There was a malfunction within the hardware below the matching engine. Therefore, before anything else, there was the need to perform recovery and failover operations. Also, the distributed Kafka cluster, tasked with sharing information throughout all systems within the organization, went down. It took the recovery of the Kafka partitions on a new hardware broker, amounting to TiBs of information. Engineers rebuild quorum and bring Coinbase markets back through cancel-only and auction modes The matching engine was responsible for the largest trading stall. The matching engine processes orders and maintains order books. The system works in a distributed cluster and requires quorum before choosing a leader and conducting trades safely. Since not all the nodes remained healthy due to the constraints in the data center during the outage, quorum could not be achieved, thereby preventing trading activities on the Retail, Advanced, and Institutional exchanges. Rob mentioned that on-call support and engineering teams had to execute the company’s disaster recovery procedures, establish quorum, and assess system health under difficult infrastructure circumstances. According to him, the team had to develop, test, deploy, and validate a solution while managing the broader outage. Kafka would have required extensive manual recovery because its partitioned architecture manages thousands of terabytes daily. There were some problems with delayed balance streams because Kafka was behind. Rob stated that these issues with balances disappeared after replication became synchronized. According to Coinbase, no data was lost. When the matching engine was back in service, markets were not re-enabled simultaneously. First, Coinbase switched all products to cancel-only mode, checked product statuses, switched all markets to auction mode, and finally, enabled trading on Coinbase Exchange. Moreover, Rob emphasized that customers should not be locked out of their accounts temporarily. Coinbase assured everyone that the company would provide a detailed explanation for this incident within several weeks. However, Josh Ellithorpe rebutted the rumors after reading Rob’s post on Twitter. As he put it, “no one vibe coded something that failed. A ‘non-engineer’ didn’t push production code and take out the trading engine. It wasn’t intentional. It wasn’t because Coinbase failed to design a failover system. Things happen at scale, don’t let the armchair quarterbacks tell you tall tales.”

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  bdsmarttader.base.eth (@sajedurrahmans2) reported 12 minutes ago

  @ProfessorCornel @base Now base passing by golden peak time because of huge social hype from Base & upcoming Azul update. This hype won't last long... Coinbase is going down consequent quarterly loss Just in Q1 2026 the loss has exceeded $394 million. Base has laid off 14% Employee. Very crucial

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  NINJA🥷⚔️ (@Ninjacrypto786) reported 13 minutes ago

  $AORA doesn't just launch. It arrives. May 14th • 00:00 UTC via @AerodromeFi Ignition live on OKX and Coinbase Base app from day one. No listing fees. No shortcuts. Just distribution. First project on Ignition to deposit 15% of total supply and hold a full 4 weeks. That's not confidence-that's conviction. GSR and Amber Group on market making. The liquidity is structural. Fully transparent. Blockworks B1 Filing is live on website. This is what a real launch looks like. May 14th. Don't miss it @AtlasOraFi

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  Javier Mardones (@javiermardoness) reported 14 minutes ago

  @SotaaMr @davidsenra @brian_armstrong Tokenization is the only way out. Lower fees would also help. Coinbase is very expensive.

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  Ben Ruggles (@BenRustC) reported 17 minutes ago

  An AWS data center cooling failure caused a significant outage at Coinbase, impacting trading services, account access, and customer balance displays. CEO Brian Armstrong called the outage 'unacceptable' and pledged to review infrastructure resilience. The incident lasted several hours, with services gradually recovering throughout the day.

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  Demineo (@Dobbermon) reported 18 minutes ago

  I just purchased $flux @RunOnFlux on coinbase. Of course its through DEX on @base... just putting that out there! Real infrastructure solid community, and top tier customer service.

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  Jeremy (@QandAinPublic) reported 19 minutes ago

  @bryanrbeal This is BS, AWS NEVER ADVERTISE SINGLE AZ. They used our company in Australia as an example to always use Multi-Az after an outage. Show me the url where they discuss what you're saying - the Coinbase architecture?

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  Money Platters (@MoneyPlatters) reported 20 minutes ago

  @coinbase is the biggest pile of **** app that exists. its clear that its entire support staff is like 3 guys named vanjarapu sitting in front of 30 screens saying they are looking into it until you give up or get frustrated they logged you out 3 times. what a mess