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An open-source toolkit for trading digital currency We’re excited to announce the GDAX Trading Toolkit (GTT), an open source library for trading digital currency across a variety of exchanges. The GTT provides a suite of tools for traders to design, create, and operate trading features such as automated trading bots and personal portfolio trackers. For the […]

We are excited to announce that GDAX’s parent company, Coinbase, has raised $100 million in Series D funding. The round was led by IVP, with participation from Spark Capital, Greylock Partners, Battery Ventures, Section 32 and Draper Associates. Over the last year, GDAX has experienced unprecedented growth. We will use this new funding to continue […]

We wanted to give our customers an update on the recent Bitcoin hard fork. Forks enable innovation and improvements to digital assets. We believe that we will see an increasing number of forks in the future and expect this to be a vibrant and innovative part of the community. When a digital currency forks, it creates […]

As part of our Q3 2017 focus on the fundamentals and our commitment to improving customer support, we’re pleased to announce phone support is now live for our customers. Phone support is another step in our commitment to making GDAX the most trusted digital asset exchange. Starting today, customers can contact GDAX customer support via […]

We’re excited to announce our new Streaming API, an easy way to monitor real time market data from GDAX. Previously, GDAX only provided a full data feed. This feed required high bandwidth and prevented users from monitoring select market data. With the new Streaming API customers can now: Subscribe to a ticker channel to receive real time […]Read More

We wanted to give our customers an update on the upcoming Bitcoin SegWit2x hard fork scheduled for November 2017. You can read & comment now about what a digital currency fork is here. We operate by the principle that our customers should benefit to the greatest extent possible from hard forks or other unexpected events. This […]

Timeline and Support — Bitcoin Segwit2x and Bitcoin Gold We wanted to give customers another update on two upcoming Bitcoin forks — Bitcoin Segwit2x and Bitcoin Gold. You can read & comment now about what a digital currency fork is here. We operate by the principle that our customers should benefit to the greatest extent possible from hard forks or other […]Read More

In our prior blog post we indicated that at the time of the fork, the existing chain will be called Bitcoin (BTC) and the Segwit2x fork will be called Bitcoin2x (B2X). Since then, some customers have asked us to clarify what will happen after the fork. We are going to call the chain with the […]

We are excited to release the GDAX Digital Asset Framework. We believe the number of digital currencies and tokens will continue growing and contribute to creating an open financial system. To support this growth, GDAX will add assets which align with this framework and promote our mission of creating an open financial system for the world. […]

We’re happy to announce an important security update for GDAX API traders that allows IP address whitelisting for API keys. This feature ensures that your API credentials can only be used from an approved IP address. That means even if your API credentials are lost or compromised — they are never usable on a non-whitelisted server. Starting […]Read More

ETH-USD Trading Update #3 — What Happened and What’s Next? At 12:30pm PT on June 21, 2017 a multimillion dollar market sell was placed on the GDAX ETH-USD order book that resulted in approximately 30% book slippage. As a result, several hundred stop loss orders and margin calls were automatically executed, causing ETH to momentarily trade as low […]Read More

This is the second update regarding the ETH-USD trading activity on June 21st, 2017. You can read the first update here. GDAX is just over two years old and has grown to become one of the world’s leading digital asset exchanges. We launched our first version of margin trading earlier this year and have generally seen […]