Paul Grewal is the Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase, where he serves as the company's primary legal spokesperson on regulatory enforcement, compliance, and policy. Paul Grewal's Twitter Score is 494 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #325 (top 0.1%) out of 531,432 crypto accounts tracked on this platform. He has 102,452 followers as of July 2026 on X and has published 8,407 posts. He has been mentioned by 287 accounts, totaling 557 mentions.
Paul Grewal has been at the center of Coinbase's most significant legal disputes. On June 6, 2023, the SEC charged Coinbase with operating as an unregistered national securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency, and with the unregistered offer and sale of securities through its staking-as-a-service program. He represented the company publicly throughout the proceedings, and on February 27, 2025, the SEC filed a joint stipulation to dismiss the case, which he described as a complete win for Coinbase. In January 2023, Coinbase agreed to a $100 million settlement with the New York Department of Financial Services over compliance shortfalls; he acknowledged shortcomings and said the company welcomed opportunities to improve its programs.
Paul Grewal has addressed additional regulatory and policy matters on behalf of Coinbase. In May 2025, a reported investigation surfaced into whether Coinbase had overstated a previously reported verified-user metric; he characterized it as a holdover inquiry into a figure the company had stopped reporting. After Coinbase filed a petition for crypto-specific SEC rulemaking in July 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ordered the SEC in January 2025 to better explain why it denied the request. In November 2025, Coinbase filed paperwork to reincorporate in Texas, and he authored a Wall Street Journal column arguing the state had become increasingly attractive for innovative companies.
Paul Grewal previously served as deputy general counsel at Facebook, where he handled communications during the Cambridge Analytica backlash in 2018. Before that, he served as a U.S. magistrate judge at the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
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