Ahead of its long-anticipated public market debut next week, crypto-brokerage Coinbase previewed results for its best quarter ever, pulling in $1.8 billion in first-quarter revenue, as booming interest in cryptocurrencies pushes the market to meteoric new highs.
Shortly after the market close on Tuesday, Coinbase, the nation’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, reported first-quarter revenue that soared nearly 900% from $190.6 million in the same period last year, blowing past the $585 million nabbed in the fourth quarter.
The San Francisco-based firm, which posted a surprise profit of $322 million last year, pulled in an estimated $800 million in earnings during the first quarter, roughly 25 times the $32 million posted a year ago.
Reflecting the surging interest in cryptocurrencies, Coinbase’s trading volume totaled $335 billion in the quarter, eclipsing the $30 billion worth of trades in the first quarter of 2020.
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Meanwhile, the platform’s verified users (those with confirmed identities who are eligible to trade) swelled to 56 million at quarter’s end, compared to 34 million one year prior.
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cryptocurrencies, fueled by heightened institutional adoption that’s seen the likes of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs dive into the space just last month. The cryptocurrency market late Monday swelled to more than $2 trillion after skyrocketing nearly tenfold from $208 billion in April 2020.
Chief Critic
“Coinbase’s expected valuation of roughly $100 billion is far too high,” David Trainer, the CEO of investment research firm New Constructs, said in a note to clients Monday. “It’s hard to make a straight-faced argument that the firm can justify the lofty expectations baked into its valuation given increasing competition in a mature cryptocurrency trading market and the lack of sustainability in its current market share and margins,” he added, noting that competitors such as Gemini, Bitstamp, Kraken and others are likely to try to undercut Coinbase’s market share advantage by lowering their trading fees, as has happened with stocks in the years since online brokerages like Robinhood and Stash emerged.
Surprising Fact
Billionaire Coinbase CEO and Cofounder Brian Armstrong earned an eye-popping $59.5 million in total compensation last year—more than JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon.
Further Reading
Coinbase Investors Say It Could Hit $100 Billion Valuation When It Goes Public (Forbes)
Crypto Giant Coinbase Pulled In $1.3 Billion Last Year, New Filing Shows (Forbes)
I’m a reporter at Forbes focusing on markets and finance. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I double-majored in business journalism and economics while working for UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School as a marketing and communications assistant. Before Forbes, I spent a summer reporting on the L.A. private sector for Los Angeles Business Journal and wrote about publicly traded North Carolina companies for NC Business News Wire. Reach out at jponciano@forbes.com.
Source: Coinbase Posts Record $1.8 Billion In Revenue As Crypto Market Shoots Past $2 Trillion
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