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Roshan Prabhakar reposted thisRoshan Prabhakar reposted thisWhy should markets close? The world doesn't. Proud to share that stock perpetual contracts are now live on Coinbase — AAPL, NVDA, TSLA, GOOGL, AMZN, MSFT, META, SPY, and QQQ. 24/7 trading, up to 10x leverage on single stocks and 20x on indices. This was a massive cross-functional effort and I want to congratulate the team that made it happen. Incredibly proud of what this group pulled off. For those unfamiliar with perps, here's the short version of why they're interesting for stocks: → A $10K stock position requires $10K in capital. The same exposure as a perp requires $1K margin. → Shorting a stock means borrowing shares and paying fees. With a perp, it's one click — no borrow needed. → When news breaks at 2 AM on a Saturday, the stock market is closed. Perps aren't. That's 55 hours of gap risk eliminated. Different instrument, different tradeoffs — but the optionality matters. I personally built an interactive tool that breaks down the mechanics of stock perps vs. traditional stock trading. Take a look if you're curious: https://lnkd.in/gxK3iuKB Here's our blog: https://lnkd.in/gdk_7K4r
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Roshan Prabhakar shared thisCoinbase India team was present at TokenIQ in Bangalore this weekend. First of all, huge kudos to Hitesh Singhi Kritesh Abhishek Manish Singh and the FinGrad team for an extremely well run event and thanks for the opportunity to talk in front of the thriving crypto trading community in India. We read a lot about grassroots crypto adoption in India in all the Chainalysis reports but it hits different to see it for real! Couldn't be more convinced and excited about the potential in India 🇮🇳 🚀 It was a great opportunity to talk to some of the leading traders in India as well. Nothing beats talking to the pro users - months of learning compressed into hours! John O'Loghlen Akshay Chugh Karan Malik
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Roshan Prabhakar reposted thisRoshan Prabhakar reposted thisPerpetual-style futures and dated futures contracts are now available in Germany (and across Europe) on Coinbase. Previously investors tended to rely on unregulated platforms to access these products. Now Coinbase Advanced users can access: - Perpetual-style futures (long-dated futures contracts with 5-year expiries) and dated contracts - 10x Leverage on Select Contracts - Low Trading Fees All within the trusted and regulated Coinbase platform. Learn more about Futures Contracts on Coinbase in the blog linked in the comments!
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Roshan Prabhakar reposted thisRoshan Prabhakar reposted thisGreat to be back in India and thanks + congrats to Ambassador (ret.) Atul Keshap and the whole USIBC - US India Business Council team for the 50th anniversary summit. Despite the macro challenges, business ties between the two countries are strong, and there’s excitement about how to capture the opportunities as India enjoys its “moment.” There’s also growing interest in digital asset tokenisation in Delhi, a powerful complement to the existing DPI stack. We’re seeing academics at Gujarat National Law University and senior judges also lean in to contribute to how India can capture the upside here. A lot to do! Coinbase is excited to be growing our biz in 🇮🇳 🚀 John O'Loghlen Katie Mitchell Rohan Naik
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Roshan Prabhakar reposted thisRoshan Prabhakar reposted thisCoinbase is becoming an “Everything Exchange”, expanding our product offering beyond crypto all within the trusted Coinbase app. The latest example of our work in Europe is the launch of futures contracts. Now Coinbase Advanced users can access: - Perpetual-style futures (long-dated futures contracts with 5-year expiries) and dated contracts - 10x Leverage on Select Contracts - Low Trading Fees Blog post with more details in the comments.
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Roshan Prabhakar shared thisLooking for my opening partner at Coinbase India 🙂 PS: We already have the wright top talent team assembled under the able guidance of coach John O'Loghlen and we can't wait to play the long innings!Roshan Prabhakar shared thisHave been cautious to post given NZ's hammering v. India 🏏 recently ( hoping some redemption 🙏 in T20 World Cup ) .................. But........ WE ARE HIRING and looking for Top Talent, think Sachin Tendulkar, for an India Country Director role. Check it out and help us get some runs on the board. Probably looking for someone who can get us through a series of tough 5 day tests 🏆 versus a flashy ODI Hitman 😉 https://lnkd.in/dSjrukD5
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Roshan Prabhakar reposted thisRoshan Prabhakar reposted thisEverything we announced at the Coinbase System Update in under two minutes.
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Roshan Prabhakar reposted thisRoshan Prabhakar reposted thisThe Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society (KITS), under the IT BT Department, Karnataka, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Coinbase India Private Limited on December 3, 2025. The partnership encompasses two strategic tracks: developer cultivation on Base (Ethereum Layer 2) ecosystem and cybersecurity capacity building. Through this collaboration, the state aims to upskill over 10,000 developers, incubate 25+ blockchain startups, train 1,000+ individuals including law enforcement in cybersecurity, and position Karnataka as both the onchain capital and a cybersecurity center of excellence. The initiative will leverage government colleges, K-Tech hubs and Centers of Excellence for program deployment. #MoUSigning #StrategicPartnership #CenterOfExcellence #KITS #KarnatakaInnovation Priyank M Kharge | Manjula N | Rahul Sharanappa | Prashanth Prakash | Kiran Mazumdar Shaw | Kris Gopalakrishnan | Champa E | Jaikrishna Ramesh | Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM) | Coinbase | Brijesh Chawla | Harshith Bhat | Utkarsh Shahdeo | Giri Shankar | Ujani Ghosh | Anurag Singh | Khushboo K. | Nidhi Prasad | Itishree Panigrahi |
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Roshan Prabhakar reposted thisRoshan Prabhakar reposted thisThanks Roshan Prabhakar Akshay Chugh Ashwini Sharma Anagh Tiwari Rohan Naik Sumit Gupta Tak L. Peyush Agarwal Saumya Saxena Sagar Desai Ahaan Raizada Michala Pamplin Karan Malik Kushaal Patel and Vijay N D Manoj Gursahani Milind Hardas 🇮🇳 Venkatesh Sarvasiddhi Mukesh Katotra Shiv Mehta Akash Karmakar Nandan Desai GAUTAM SEHGAL and so many others for making the Coinbase India GTM week spanning Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi last week such a success. The appetite for digital assets in India from a broader audience of investors is palpable, particularly when contrasted with the early stages of the domestic regulatory landscape and the enthusiasm of our partners and local stakeholders is always so refreshing and energising. India is ramping up for web3 and its much broader and widespread than just India Blockchain Week. We are just starting 🚀 + 🛺……..
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It's been a pleasure and honour to be working closely with you Lucas over the last few years. You will be dearly missed! Congrats and best wishes for your next gig!
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Congrats Aditya Kulkarni !! So proud to have been your colleague at some point of time :)
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Roshan Prabhakar liked thisRoshan Prabhakar liked thisVercel deleted 24,677 lines of code because of a blog post I wrote. Here's what happened. Thursday morning I noticed something off on Claude Code. “The Vercel plugin collects …. Would you like to also share your prompt text…?” - popped up on my Claude Code project with zero Vercel connection. This sent me down a rabbit hole of Vercel's Claude Code plugin. 4 things were happening: 1. Vercel Claude Code plugin was asking to read every prompt you type, across every project. 2. The consent question wasn’t even a real UI element. It’s delivered via prompt injection into Claude’s system context - the plugin tells Claude to ask you a question and run shell commands based on your answer. 3. “Anonymous usage data” included your full bash command strings sent to Vercel’s servers. You’re never told this is optional. 4. All of this runs on every project, not just Vercel ones. So I wrote it up a blog post, x-posted to Hacker News and went to bed. The next morning: #1 on Hacker News. 200+ comments. OpenClaw's founder re-tweeted. People were pissed, naturally. Then something I didn't expect happened. Vercel's CEO reached out within hours, acknowledged the issues, walked through changes already shipped, and committed to further fixes. Vercel plugin's lead engineer sent over his code changes for a quick review → 730 additions → 24,677 deletions → 85 files changed All four issues I raised: fully addressed ✅ And this change cost Vercel real features. The telemetry wasn’t a separate layer bolted on top. It was woven into the plugin’s operational fabric. Removing it meant deleting: a code validation system, 40+ package mappings, smart subagent bootstrapping. Real sacrifice, not just a cosmetic cleanup. They took a genuine hit to do the right thing. This is what accountability looks like when it actually works. Concerns will always be raised, mistakes will always be made. Being upfront about owning it, being super proactive and fixing what the community is telling you - that continues to be the secret sauce. Hats off to the Vercel team! I will continue to use Vercel. I will continue to use Claude Code. But I will also continue to trust but verify!
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Roshan Prabhakar liked thisRoshan Prabhakar liked thisDEX Trading is live in the UK 🇬🇧 It is great to see the team taking more steps to build the "Everything Exchange": the place where you can trade and access all the financial services and assets users want. This latest milestone gives UK users access to millions of Base and Solana tokens moments after they launch. You can learn more about our product in our blog post: https://lnkd.in/dSqsKmufCoinbase Launches DEX Trading in Brazil and United KingdomCoinbase Launches DEX Trading in Brazil and United Kingdom
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Roshan Prabhakar reacted on thisRoshan Prabhakar reacted on this5 years at Coinbase. From an 8-seater room to building globally. Most people don’t know this — when I joined Coinbase Singapore, there were 8 of us. Just a small coworking room — and absolute conviction we were building something that would redefine the future of finance. I was the first boots on the ground for Candidate Experience outside of the US. No playbook. No blueprint. Just a lot of coffee — and figuring things out in real time. People ask how the last 5 years have been. Short answer: you either evolve, or you get left behind. In an industry that moves at light speed and now with AI accelerating everything — staying still just isn’t an option. Market cycles come and go. The mission doesn’t. No corporate cushioning. No hand-holding. Just building. Breaking. Rebuilding better. It’s not always neat. It’s intense. And it’s exactly why it works. Five years in — still building, still learning 🚀 Grateful for the people, the pace, and the constant push to grow. If you still don’t quite know what we do — it’s not too late: https://lnkd.in/gr48ejp6 #coinaversary
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Roshan Prabhakar liked thisRoshan Prabhakar liked thisOur 24-hour hackathon summarised in a 72-second after-movie! 🙂 We recently ran CoinDCX's biggest internal hackathon: 55 teams across cities and functions (engineering, product, marketing, infosec, growth) each building on one of three themes: growth, efficiency, and trust. For 24 hours straight, teams were in the office brainstorming, building, testing, debugging, and taking breaks and having fun. We thought we had planned for everything. But we saw teams utilising AI credits at twice the expected speed. Honestly, the best possible sign that the builders were building! So, we sourced more credits! Building shouldn’t stop! I also interacted with many teams while they were building. The highlight for me was walking around the office at 2 AM, having momos and maggi and seeing the energy still at all-time highs! Submissions closed at 11 AM the next day. Then came the hardest part: 10 judges trying to pick winners from solutions that were all genuinely well-thought-out and impressive. We got every team to present their builds to the entire company. The best part? Many of these builds aren’t stopping at the demos. They are heading into performance testing and we will ship many of them in the coming months and quarters!
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Roshan Prabhakar reacted on thisRoshan Prabhakar reacted on thisAfter four incredible years, the time has come for me to move on from Coinbase . I joined when crypto policy was still finding its footing globally. I leave at a time when it is firmly on the agenda at the highest levels of government, with broad recognition that digital assets will play a significant role in the future of finance. That shift did not happen by accident and I’m proud of the part our team played. It’s been an extraordinary adventure criss-crossing the globe talking to policymakers about the promise of cheaper, faster, more democratised and more competitive financial services. Along the way, we secured licences, helped shape regulatory frameworks and worked to position Coinbase as a trusted partner to governments globally. Above all, I want to thank the people who made that work possible. Faryar Shirzad, it has been a privilege to work with, and learn from, you. Scott W. Bauguess & Kara Calvert what a run. Thank you, and keep crushing it! Brian Armstrong , Emilie Choi and Paul Grewal - thank you for your incredible leadership, championing policy and for continually raising the bar. I’m also very pleased to be leaving this work in exceptional hands. Under Faryar’s leadership, Katie Harries and Katie Mitchell, who have led the UK & Europe, and APAC & Middle East respectively, will continue to drive Coinbase’s global policy efforts. They are outstanding, supported by a deeply talented team: Roeland Van der Stappen , David Menz, CFA , Akos Erzse , Rohan Naik , Aadi Kulkarni , Felix Haynes , Julia Rosin , and Adriana Ennab and Harry Pearce Gould from Stand With Crypto In The UK . It has been a privilege to work alongside all of you. This industry has come a long way. Onward.
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Roshan Prabhakar reacted on thisRoshan Prabhakar reacted on thisI want to address what happened to Neeraj and me last week. It was shocking and disheartening for us too. But today, we want to talk about what actually happened and more importantly, what we’re going to do about it. On March 21, we were taken into police custody over a fraud complaint. Three days later, on March 24, a Thane court granted us bail, finding that no prima facie case was made. The fraud at the centre of this complaint was carried out through a fake website—"coindcx.pro"—by impersonators with no connection to our platform, systems, or CoinDCX. No money moved through CoinDCX. No transaction occurred on our exchange. The complainant himself confirmed in court that he did not know us and had never met us. Our experience was deeply unsettling. Not because we doubted the facts, but because it revealed something painfully clear: the ecosystem we operate in still lacks the tools to distinguish between those building responsibly and those exploiting it. Think about the precedent this sets: if a scammer uses your brand, name, or face on a fake website and defrauds someone, you could be arrested. Not the scammer. You. This could happen to any founder, any business. That has to change. So, CoinDCX will lead that change. Not with words, but with action. Today, we’re announcing the Digital Suraksha Network (D.S.N.), a ₹100 crore commitment from CoinDCX to build the cyber safety infrastructure India’s digital finance ecosystem desperately needs. This isn’t just a crypto issue—it’s a problem for any business with a digital footprint. Here’s what we’re building: → 24x7 WhatsApp helpline: free for everyone to verify links, platforms, and offers before transacting. → Open Fraud Intelligence API: we’ve tracked 1,200+ fraudulent websites impersonating CoinDCX. Soon, we’ll share this data via an open API and invite every exchange, fintech, bank, and lender to contribute—creating a shared immune system for digital finance. → Cyber Safety Infrastructure for Law Enforcement: the D.S.N. will fund training for state cybercrime cells on blockchain forensics and digital asset tracing. → “Caution Before Transaction”: a nationwide initiative to equip every Indian with tools for safe digital participation. No single company can solve this. Fraud networks are sophisticated, cross-border, and evolve daily—now even using AI to evade detection. But someone must fix this problem at the root. We’re committing ₹100 crore because the ecosystem cannot wait. I urge every platform, every regulator, and every Indian who participates in digital finance to join us. We want to ensure that founders in India can build with confidence, not fear.
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Roshan Prabhakar liked thisRoshan Prabhakar liked thisCoinbase is hiring in Singapore! 🇸🇬 We're looking for two high performers for our APAC Institutional account management team. This role is incredibly high leverage and high agency, a fit for someone who can independently manage a book of top tier clients while mitigating risk, scaling accounts and being a powerful advocate for the client with internal stakeholders. Coinbase is the dominant institutional crypto platform globally. This is your opportunity to be a part of it. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/geRFQ9T3 Brett Tejpaul | Ayan D. | Darshit Kanani | Saumya Aggarwal
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Roshan Prabhakar liked thisRoshan Prabhakar liked thisExcited to help build the future of payments at Tempo! Very grateful for the last 4.5 years at Coinbase, where I first fell down the crypto rabbit hole… the 3.5 years before that at Wayfair, where I first caught the payments bug… and the 4.5 years before that at WilmerHale, where I first learned how to be a good transactional lawyer (in real estate). Did not expect to end up at a layer 1 blockchain startup (didn’t even know what that was when I started my legal career 13 years ago). I took a few chances along the way that paid off, but it was as much about the people who took a chance on me. Thanks Gina Moon Lindsey Haswell Molly Abraham Enrique Colbert Andrew Oliver Paul Jakubowski, and the countless other colleagues who took the time to teach me what I practice today (too many to name)!
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Roshan Prabhakar liked thisRoshan Prabhakar liked thisGet your house and keep your crypto. We’ve joined forces with Better to launch a new crypto-backed mortgage product that lets homebuyers use Bitcoin or USDC toward a down payment – without selling their assets. This means: → Pledge your crypto instead of a cash down payment → Keep your assets and keep earning rewards without giving up long-term investments → Coinbase One exclusive: if approved for a loan, members will be eligible for a rebate worth 1% of the mortgage value, capped at $10,000, to cover closing costs and fees Originated and serviced by Better, powered by Coinbase, and with the same backing of Fannie Mae as other conforming mortgages. The product will be live in the coming months. More details: https://lnkd.in/e8dnfd3a
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Director's Merit List, IIM Bangalore
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Award for top 5% of the batch - ranked 3rd overall
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Gold Medal, Electronics and Communication, NIT Calicut
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Award for the top ranked student in the batch
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State rank 12 - 10th board exam
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