# Coinbase Global

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/coinbase-global/  
**Website:** https://portal.cdp.coinbase.com  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Coinbase Global, Inc. is a publicly traded cryptocurrency platform that operates a retail exchange, an institutional trading and custody business (Coinbase Prime), and the Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP) — a suite of APIs, SDKs, and onchain tooling for wallets, payments, trading, staking, and AI agents. Developers build against the CDP API v2, the Advanced Trade API, the Coinbase App (Sign in with Coinbase) API, the Exchange and Prime APIs, and Coinbase Commerce, with authentication via short-lived JWTs signed by project API keys. CDP ships first-party TypeScript and Python SDKs, a CLI that doubles as a local MCP server, AgentKit for AI agents, webhooks, and idempotent write semantics. This profile was added to the API Evangelist network from a venture-portfolio lead and enriched from Coinbase's public developer surface.

## Kin Score — 51.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 51.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 51.6 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 55.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 80.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 40.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 52.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | yes |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP) API** — Core CDP API v2 for onchain wallets, payments, trading, faucets, policies, and JSON-RPC access, authenticated with short-lived JWTs.
- **Coinbase Advanced Trade API** — Programmatic spot trading, order management, and market data for the Coinbase retail exchange (Advanced Trade).
- **Coinbase App API (Sign in with Coinbase)** — Retail Coinbase App API v2 for accounts, addresses, transactions, buys/sells, with OAuth2 and API-key HMAC authentication.
- **Coinbase Exchange API** — Institutional/pro exchange REST and WebSocket API for order books, trading, and market data.
- **Coinbase Prime API** — Institutional trading, custody, and portfolio management API for Coinbase Prime.
- **Coinbase Commerce API** — Crypto payments/checkout API for accepting cryptocurrency payments.

## MCP servers (1)

- **coinbase-global-mcp.yml**

## Security (3)

- **Coinbase Global Authentication** — apiKey/http/oauth2 · 4 schemes
- **Coinbase Global Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Coinbase Global Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Payments, Wallets, Trading, Onchain, Web3, Financial Services, Developer Platform, AI Agents, Stablecoins

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/coinbase-global/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.