Coinbase Buys Liquifi Token Platform In 4th Acquisition YTD

Main US cryptocurrency change Coinbase continued its 2025 shopping for spree, buying token administration platform Liquifi.

Coinbase on Wednesday announced a strategic acquisition of Liquifi, a token administration platform targeted on early-stage tokenization tasks.

“Buying Liquifi offers us best-in-class capabilities in token cap desk administration, vesting, and compliance, and positions Coinbase to assist builders earlier of their journey,” Coinbase’s vp of institutional product, Greg Tusar, mentioned within the announcement.

The most recent acquisition is Coinbase’s fourth this yr, following its $2.9 billion acquisition of Deribit, one of many world’s largest crypto derivatives buying and selling platforms, in Might.

Coinbase desires extra token launches

In keeping with Tusar, Coinbase’s acquisition of Liquifi goals to handle the complexity of token launches by onchain builders, together with points like fragmented authorized, tax and compliance hurdles, regulatory issues and extra. 

“We need to take away these obstacles by offering each the product and the experience to make token launches easy, compliant, and scalable,” Tusar mentioned, including:

“Liquifi solves these ache factors by automating core workflows whereas lowering token launch danger. This acquisition will allow us to associate extra successfully with builders earlier of their lifecycle — earlier than tokens are launched or listed.”

He added that the acquisition aligns with Coinbase’s imaginative and prescient and aim to make token launches “simpler, sooner and extra international than issuing conventional startup fairness.”

Liquifi options to be built-in with Coinbase Prime

Coinbase’s help to onchain builders gained’t be restricted to the Liquifi platform, because it plans to combine it into its institutional brokerage platform, Coinbase Prime.

“Over time, we’ll combine these capabilities with Coinbase Prime to provide issuers best-in-class instruments instantly out of our market-leading Prime platform, whereas tightening our integration throughout custody, buying and selling, financing and past,” Tusar mentioned.

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Liquifi was based in 2021 with the purpose to simplify token administration. The platform’s clients embrace Uniswap, Optimism, Ethena and Zora.

“That is just the start,” Liquifi mentioned in an announcement on X. “With Coinbase’s assets behind us, we’re constructing the institutional-grade token infrastructure the trade deserves,” it added.

Earlier this yr, Coinbase additionally acquired onchain ads and attribution platform Spindl and the staff behind Iron Fish, a crypto platform targeted on privacy-preserving instruments.

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