Author: Fan Jiabao, Odaily Planet Daily
Recently, Coinbase released its 2024 First quarter financial report.
The report showed that Coinbase’s first-quarter revenue was US$1.64 billion, higher than analysts’ average estimate of US$1.34 billion; net profit was US$1.18 billion, or US$4.40 per share, compared with a loss of US$7,890 in the same period last year. This was a staggering financial turnaround compared to a loss of 34 cents per share. This profit performance comes after the company reported its first profit in two years in February this year.
Notably, profit for the quarter included a $650 million gain from the adoption of new accounting standards for marking-to-market crypto assets held for investment.
Looking by business type, the total transaction fee income in 2024 Q1 was US$1.077 billion, a month-on-month increase of 103.42%, a year-on-year increase of 187.35%, Revenue accounted for 65.75%, becoming the main source of revenue.
Transaction fee income increased significantly, mainly due to the substantial increase in retail and institutional trading volume.
Details of trading income (in millions of dollars)
2024 Q1 Retail transaction fee income was US$935 million, a month-on-month increase of 99.45% and a year-on-year increase of 184.08%. Retail trading volume in Q1 2024 was US$56 billion, a month-on-month increase of 93.10% and a year-on-year increase of 166.67%. Coinbase's financial officer pointed out during the conference call that the significant increase in transaction fees was due to the growth of new users and the recovery of transaction volume of existing users, as well as the increase in per-user transaction volume.
In 2024 Q1, institutional transaction fee income was US$85 million, a month-on-month increase of 132.70% and a year-on-year increase of 282.96%. Institutional trading volume in Q1 2024 was US$256 billion, a month-on-month increase of 104.8% and a year-on-year increase of 106.45%.
Institutional trading fee revenue benefited from the approval of a Bitcoin spot ETF and the company’s product innovation. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has attracted an influx of institutional investors since it approved a new series of U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds. Many exchange-traded funds have chosen Coinbase as their custody partner, with the funds collectively attracting more than $50 billion in capital as of the end of the first quarter.
Institutional platform Coinbase Prime 2024 Q1 trading volume and number of active customers hit record highs. The Prime platform provides custody, trading, financing and staking services to institutional clients, with the approval of a Bitcoin ETF in January 2024 and the rise in Bitcoin prices in the first quarter significantly increasing customer engagement across the Prime product suite.
Thanks to the stimulation of trading activities by ETF issuance, as a custody partner of exchange-traded funds, Coinbase Prime’s trading volume hit a record high in the first quarter, rising 115% year-on-year to 312 billion times. First-quarter revenue It also surged from US$22.3 million in the same period last year to US$85.4 million, and loans surged to US$797 million in the same period.
2024 Q1 Other transaction income was US$56 million, a month-on-month increase of 137.71% and a year-on-year increase of 140.77%. Other trading revenue benefited from increased revenue from Base, the Layer 2 solution provided by Coinbase.
Subscription and service revenue reached US$511 million this quarter, a month-on-month increase of 36.09%, a year-on-year increase of 41.25%, and revenue accounting for 31.20%, mainly due to blockchain Driven by growth in rewards revenue, hosting fee revenue and other subscription services revenue.
Subscription and service revenue breakdown (in millions of dollars)
2024 Q1 Stablecoin revenue was US$197 million, a month-on-month increase of 14.98% and a year-on-year decrease of 0.8%. Stablecoin revenue benefited from the increase in USDC market value. The value of USDC on the platform is $5.5 billion, roughly double what it was at the end of Q4 2023.
It is worth noting that in the first quarter, USDC’s market capitalization growth rate was the highest among all U.S. dollar stablecoins.
2024 Q1 blockchain reward income was US$151 million, a year-on-year increase of 104.75% and a month-on-month increase of 58.68%. Blockchain reward revenue has mainly benefited from the sharp rise in crypto assets, especially the price of Ethereum, which increased by approximately 60% on March 31 compared to December 31 last year.
2024 Q1 Custody fee income was US$32 million, a month-on-month increase of 63.96% and a year-on-year increase of 90.00%. Custody fees benefited from rising crypto asset prices and increased custody business for Bitcoin spot ETFs. Among the 11 Bitcoin spot ETFs approved by the SEC in January 2024, Coinbase served as the custodian of 8 of the ETFs. At the end of Q1 2024, the company's assets under custody were approximately US$171 billion.
2024 Q1 Prime financing income was reclassified from other subscription service income to interest and financing income. Interest and financing income was US$67 million, a month-on-month increase of 36.40%, a year-on-year increase 54.04%.
2024 Q1 Prime financing income was reclassified from other subscription service income to interest and financing income. Interest and financing income was US$67 million, a month-on-month increase of 36.40%, a year-on-year increase 54.04%.
In the foreseeable future, the passage of the Stablecoin Act will provide Coinbase stablecoin revenue
Furthermore, Base chain As Coinbase's bet on L2 beat, it has performed well in the past quarter. Due to the active trading of a large number of new and old Meme tokens, the transactions on Base have far exceeded other L2 second-tier chains in the past few months.
Comparison of Layer 2 Network Transaction Overview
In addition, according to the estimates of Wall Street analysts, in the future Coinbase's new business derivatives revenue will reach hundreds of millions of dollars in two years. Coinbase's main platform's expansion into derivatives adds to its upside in the long term.
Finally, the continuous growth of Coinbase’s international site and the fact that Coinbase has obtained compliance licenses for crypto assets in more countries will also promote the continuous expansion of its business scale.
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