Coinbase Institutional is the institutional crypto platform of Coinbase, offering integrated solutions for sophisticated investors and institutions across trading, custody, staking, financing, research, and crypto-as-a-service. Coinbase Institutional's Twitter Score is 184 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #2,650 (top 1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Coinbase Institutional operates several distinct business lines, including Coinbase Prime, Coinbase Custody Trust Company, LLC, Coinbase Exchange, Coinbase International Exchange, Coinbase Derivatives Exchange, and Coinbase Asset Management. Coinbase was co-founded by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam, and was backed early on by Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, and Ribbit Capital.
Coinbase Institutional states it handles $236 billion in quarterly institutional trading volume and holds $300 billion in assets under custody, with more than 275 assets available for trading and more than 470 assets supported for custody. In 2024, Coinbase Prime was selected by the U.S. Marshals Service to provide custody and advanced trading services for forfeited large-cap digital assets under a contract valued at $32.5 million.
Coinbase Institutional was at the center of a significant regulatory action when, on June 6, 2023, the SEC charged Coinbase, Inc. with operating its crypto asset trading platform as an unregistered national securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency, and also charged Coinbase over the alleged unregistered offer and sale of securities through its staking-as-a-service program. On February 27, 2025, the SEC filed a joint stipulation with Coinbase Inc. and Coinbase Global Inc. to dismiss the civil enforcement action against both entities, noting the dismissal was not an assessment of the merits of the claims. Coinbase Institutional has 132,920 followers as of August 2026 and has published 2,836 posts, and has been mentioned by 229 accounts a total of 449 times.
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The accounts that follow Coinbase Institutional include 609 founders, 200 angel investors, 321 influencers and 24 VCs, among them Brian Armstrong, Coinbase, Toly, Laura Shin, Stani and Kyle Samani.