Coinbase
Coinbase is a major US-based cryptocurrency exchange. It appears in this knowledge base in two distinct contexts:
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Money laundering vehicle (benton-2026-cryptocurrency-money-laundering-2-3m): Three Coinbase accounts held by Linda Winder were subject to federal seizure warrants in a $2.3M money laundering case. Stolen funds from a business email compromise were converted to Bitcoin and transferred through her Coinbase account.
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PQC collaborator (babbush-neven-2026-quantum-vulnerabilities-cryptocurrency): google-quantum-ai cited Coinbase as a collaborator on post-quantum cryptography migration for blockchain systems, alongside the Stanford Institute for Blockchain Research and the Ethereum Foundation.
Sources: benton-2026-cryptocurrency-money-laundering-2-3m, babbush-neven-2026-quantum-vulnerabilities-cryptocurrency