Coinbase Global
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.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Coinbase Global the way a machine reads it — 11 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Coinbase Global scores 49.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 47/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Coinbase Global
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Coinbase Global. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 6
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
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
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
coinbase-global-mcp.yml
MCP SERVEREvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Coinbase Global Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Coinbase Global — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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