Messari values Coinbase at $28 billion following IPO filing
Potential listing could provide a valuation anchor, not only for future crypto IPOs but also for crypto-native exchange tokens. Following cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase filing a draft registration for a public offering with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, research company Messari has valued the company at $28 billion.Messari’s model examined the company’s various business segments, such as trading, custody and debit cards, to come to this figure.Coinbase is one of the biggest exchanges worldwide, with daily trading volumes of over $1 billion. Assets under....
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The custody service of leading U.S. exchange Coinbase now controls more than 10% of the combined crypto asset market cap. Crypto data aggregator Messari has reported that the quantity of crypto assets stored in custody on U.S. exchange giant Coinbase surged in the last quarter of 2020.Messari Crypto has revealed that as much as 11% of the entire crypto market capitalization was held with Coinbase custody at the end of last year. The Coinbase offers custody services for over 90 crypto assets, roughly half of which are tradable on Coinbase’s exchange.The value of assets custodied with....
In the five days after launching on Coinbase, new token listings gain 91% on average. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. Crypto analytics provider Messari has compiled a report concluding that the fabled “Coinbase effect” — the popular belief that new token listings on Coinbase tend to outperform launches on other exchanges — is true.But the effect is far from consistent, and after controlling for outliers, it’s not as great as many assume.Messari analyzed the performance of 28 new Coinbase listings over five days against 22 Binance listings, 19 FTX listings, 19 Gemini listings, 14....
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The exchange’s ties to Goldman Sachs go all the way back to Fred Ehrsam, who co-founded Coinbase in 2012 with Brian Armstrong. Digital currency exchange Coinbase has reportedly approached Goldman Sachs to lead its upcoming initial public offering — a move that could bolster the appeal of cryptocurrencies to a broader mainstream audience. Citing two sources familiar with the matter, Business Insider reported Friday that Coinbase is looking to Goldman Sachs to handle its public filing. No additional details were provided. Coinbase has been linked to Goldman Sachs through Fred Ehrsam, the....
The IRS has asked a district court in California to dismiss a filing by a Coinbase customer that might prevent it from gaining access to the company's user data. Filed in the US District Court of Northern California (which oversees the city of San Francisco where Coinbase is headquartered), the new documents request the filing be dismissed on the grounds that the request was only for unidentified users of Coinbase. In the process of filing his documents to prevent the search, so goes the IRS argument, lawyer Jeffrey K Berns of the Berns Weiss law firm had revealed himself as a user, and as....