Coinbase makes an impressive public debut, Dell spins out VMware and Ford announces a new hands-free driving system. This is your Daily Crunch for April 14, 2021. The big story: Coinbase goes public Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase went public today via direct listing at an opening price of $381 per share, climbing to nearly $430 before…
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Garry Tan, a prominent angel investor and the founder of Initialized Capital, was one of the first investors to provide seed funding to Coinbase eight years ago. Less than a decade later, and after today’s highly anticipated Nasdaq listing for Coinbase’s COIN stock, Tan’s 2013 investment of $300,000 into Coinbase is now worth $2.4 billion.…
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The crypto exchange, whose CEO has previously dissuaded employees from expressing political views, started its initial public offering off with a message referencing U.S. President Joe Biden’s stimulus package. According to Coinbase, the crypto exchange had mining pool F2Pool embed the title of a New York Times article in the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain at 2:05…
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Following months of build-up and speculation, Coinbase (COIN) listed on the Nasdaq and in true cryptocurrency fashion, opening day trading was a volatile affair that may have had a widespread effect on the cryptocurrency market. COIN’s reference price was initially $250 but the stock opened at $381 and rapidly rose to a high of around…
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Shares of digital currency exchange Coinbase (COIN) opened at $381 Wednesday — significantly higher than its pre-listing reference price of $250 — underscoring heightened institutional demand for the crypto-focused stock. The $381 value put Coinbase’s market capitalization at $99.6 billion on a fully diluted basis. The stock peaked at $429.54 for a gain of 71.8% from the…
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Trading has already begun on Coinbase’s COIN stock on the Nasdaq after weeks of anticipation following the U.S. exchange giant’s direct listing announcement. COIN began trading significantly higher than the $250 reference stock price assigned by Nasdaq prior to the market open, rising quickly to around $430. The price fell sharply within the first few…
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Galaxy Digital founder and CEO Mike Novogratz compared the listing of Coinbase’s shares on Nasdaq today to the dawn of a new age in the adoption of crypto. In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning, Novogratz called the long-awaited initial public offering, or IPO, of the major cryptocurrency exchange’s stock shares “the Netscape…
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Today shares of Coinbase began to trade after the company executed a direct listing. From a reference price of $250, Coinbase shares opened at $381 today, a change of around 52%. At its open Coinbase was valued at $99.6 billion on a fully diluted basis. As of the time of writing Coinbase has appreciated further…
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Investors with tokenized exposure to Coinbase (COIN) shares experienced extreme volatility Tuesday, as the value of their holdings plummeted in a matter of minutes. The selloff took place on FTX, a leading derivatives exchange, where the COIN-USD stablecoin exchange rate fell from a high above $640 all the way to around $420. Three huge red…
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has addressed the platform’s transaction fees as the company’s shares list on Nasdaq today. In a CNBC Squawk Box interview on Wednesday, Armstrong discussed public concerns associated with Coinbase’s massive returns coming from transaction fees. As previously reported, nearly 96% of Coinbase’s entire revenue in 2020 was generated from transaction fees…
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