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The Brief

What Coinbase is

Composed · as of Jul 16, 2026in graph since Jul 16, 2026

Coinbase is a publicly listed cryptocurrency exchange and the company behind Base, the Ethereum Layer-2 network.

About Coinbase

Founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam, Coinbase is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges and became a publicly traded company on Nasdaq (ticker COIN) in 2021. It offers a broad suite of retail and institutional crypto products.

Products & Initiatives

Coinbase incubated Base, an Ethereum Layer-2 built on Optimism's OP Stack, which its Base team — led by jessepollak — announced in 2023. Its consumer products include the Coinbase exchange and the self-custody Coinbase Wallet. Descout tracks Coinbase as the organization behind Base and as the anchor for its creator, Jesse Pollak.

Last verified Jul 18, 2026
The Timeline

The record

Every dated thing we know · Jul 2026
Jul 18, 2026★ MilestoneGraph · edge
Jesse Pollak is a Coinbase executive who created and leads Base, Coinbase's Ethereum Layer-2 network. He joined Coinbase in 2017 and previously led Coinbase's consumer engineering. (He did not found Coinbase — that was Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam.)
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