Coinbase Global, Inc. Q1 FY2024 Earnings Call

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  • Total Revenue: $1.6 billion, up 72% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ), driven by strong market conditions and increased crypto asset prices and volatility.
  • Net Income: $1.2 billion in Q1 2024.
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $1 billion, exceeding total 2023 adjusted EBITDA.
  • Transaction Revenue: $1.1 billion, up 103% QoQ, driven by increases in both consumer and institutional trading volumes.
  • Subscription & Services Revenue: $511 million, up 36% QoQ, boosted by higher asset prices (e.g., Ethereum up 60%) and USDC market cap growth (up 30% YTD to $32 billion).
  • Customer Safeguarded Assets: Grew to $330 billion, representing ~12% of total crypto market cap.
  • Liquidity: Coinbase ended Q1 with $7.1 billion in USD resources.
  • Convertible Debt: Raised $1.1 billion through a convertible note, to be used for debt repayment or strategic investments.
  • New Accounting Change: Early adoption of fair value accounting for crypto assets resulted in $737 million of unrealized pretax mark-to-market gains.
  • Base (Layer 2 Solution): Achieved #1 status among Layer 2s by transactions. Processed 2x Ethereum L1 transactions in 30 days; developer activity up 8x; fees cut by 80% to sub-$0.01 levels.

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Operator: Good afternoon. My name is Sarah, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Coinbase First Quarter 2024 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] Anil Gupta, Vice President, Investor Relations, you may begin your conference. Anil Gupta: Good afternoon, and welcome to the Coinbase First Quarter 2024 Earnings Call. Joining me on today's call are Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder and CEO; Emilie Choi, President and COO; Alesia Haas, CFO; and Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer. I hope you've all had the opportunity to read our shareholder letter, which was published on our Investor Relations website earlier today. Before we get started, I'd like to remind you that during today's call, we may make forward-looking statements. Actual results may vary materially from today's statements. Information concerning risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause these results to differ is included in our SEC filings. Our discussion today will also include references to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are provided in the shareholder letter on our Investor Relations website. Non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for GAAP measures. We are once again using the Say Technologies platform to enable our shareholders to ask questions, and in addition, we will take some live questions from our research analys

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