Coinbase is a secure platform that makes it easy to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrency. It is a digital currency exchange headquartered in San Francisco, California. They broker exchanges of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, Tezos, and many others, with fiat currencies in approximately 32 countries, and bitcoin transactions and storage in 190 countries worldwide.
Coinbase provides market information and descriptions for more than 50 cryptocurrencies. Coinbase continues to explore the additional of new digital assets for customers around the world.
Coinbase’s goal is to offer support for all assets that meets their technical standards and comply with applicable laws.
On Friday, the San Francisco-based exchange announced that they will evaluate 19 additional cryptocurrencies against their “Digital Asset Framework” for inclusion on popular trading platform.
These new assets are: Ampleforth, Band Protocol, Balancer, Blockstack, Curve, Fetch.ai, Flexacoin, Helium, Hedera Hashgraph, Kava, Melon, Ocean Protocol, Paxos Gold, Reserve Rights, tBTC, The Graph, THETA, UMA, and WBTC
Coinbase always tries to be ahead in the crypto market and support any asset requires significant technical and compliance review and may be subject to regulatory approval in some jurisdictions. As per their listing process, they will add new assets on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis, subject to applicable review and authorizations.
The announcement did not state a timeline and gave no guarantees on “whether or when” any of the contenders would actually be listed.
To read previously announced assets by Coinbase may still be exploring see; Jul 13, 2018, Dec 7, 2018, Aug 5, 2019, Sep 1, 2019, June 10, 2020.