Coinbase obtains UK MiFID license to offer derivatives and stock trading to UK users

Coinbase announced that it has obtained a UK investment services license (MiFID) and will provide traditional financial product trading services to UK users in the future. Institutional and professional traders will be able to trade perpetual contracts for cryptocurrencies, stocks, and commodities, while retail users will be able to trade stocks on the Coinbase platform for the first time.

Coinbase stated that this license will form a regulatory framework together with its existing UK electronic money license and cryptocurrency asset registration qualifications, marking the largest expansion of product capabilities since the company entered the UK market, and will further advance its "Everything Exchange" strategy. In the future, the platform will gradually support services such as stablecoin payments, savings, lending, and tokenized real-world assets (RWA).