Coinbase Global (COIN) S-8Registration of securities for employees

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 21, 2023

Registration No. 333-

Brian Armstrong

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board

Coinbase Global, Inc.

Coinbase Global Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan

Coinbase Global Inc. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

1209 Orange Street

Wilmington, Delaware 19801

(302) 777-0200

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

All reports and documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the filing of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment, which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such reports and documents, except as to specific sections of such reports or documents as set forth therein. Unless expressly incorporated into this Registration Statement, a report deemed to be furnished but not filed on Current Reports on Form 8-K prior or subsequent to the date hereof shall not be incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement. Any statement contained in a report or document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed report or document, which also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, modifies or supersedes such

statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

As of the date of this Registration Statement, individuals and entities associated with Fenwick & West LLP beneficially own an aggregate of less than 0.001% of the Registrant’s Class A common stock.

The following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated by reference:

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Brian Armstrong and Alesia J. Haas, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with the full power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully for all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his or her substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant in the capacities and on the dates indicated.