Coinbase Reports Q4 Loss of $667 Million as it Expands Beyond Crypto Trading

• Coinbase’s Q4 financial report posted a net loss of $667 million.
• Coinbase diversified its business through futures derivatives, stablecoins, and other financial products.

Coinbase, a leading U.S.-based crypto exchange, shared its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2025 on February 12, reporting a net loss of $667 million in Q4 2025, despite strong trading volume growth of 156% in 2025. As the company expands into derivatives, stablecoins, and new markets. 

Coinbase Q4 Losses

The shareholder letter mentioned that the total revenue for the quarter was $1.8 billion, down 5% from the last quarter. Where the transaction revenue fell to $983 million, while subscription and services revenue was $727 million, both were slightly lower than Q3. Then, because of increased spending for marketing, administration, and technology, operating expenses increased by 9% to $1.5 billion. 

Even after excluding one-time or unusual costs, Coinbase earned $178 million in adjusted net income and $566 million in adjusted EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization), showing that its core business is still profitable.

Moving to crypto, on page no.10 of the Shareholder letter, the Q4 net loss was driven by a $718 million loss on our crypto asset investment portfolio, which was largely unrealized, and a $395 million loss on our strategic investment. 

In spite of the crypto losses, Coinbase demonstrated outstanding cash management and consistent shareholder returns by the end of Q4 with $11.3 billion in cash and cash equivalents, including USDC, and repurchasing $1.7 billion of its Class-A stock. 

While they mentioned that certain crypto assets were held as collateral, as well as other liquidity resources, when including these crypto assets, total available resources totaled $14.1 billion. 

Coinbase also mentioned, “Crypto is cyclical, and experience tells us it’s never as good, or as bad as it seems. While asset prices can be volatile, under the surface, an undercurrent of technological change and crypto product adoption continues.”

2025 Performance Highlights

According to the Coinbase official blog post, it states the company established new products like stock trading and prediction markets, extended its global presence by purchasing Deribit, and debuted 24/7 U.S. perpetual-style futures. Also, Stablecoin and institutional services were created at the same time, which means to reduce reliance on crypto trading. 

Some of the all-time highs mentioned in the post are that the average USDC market capitalization reached $76.2 billion, crypto trading volume doubled with a market share of 6.4%, and then total trading volume reached $5.2 trillion, compared to year over year. 

With that, Brian Armstrong, Co-founder and CEO, stated, “In 2025, we drove all-time highs across our products: Coinbase One subscriptions reached ~1 million, trading volume and market share doubled, and USDC held on platform reached an all-time high. We’re in pole position to capitalize on whatever 2026 has in store.”

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