Coinbase Builds Into Bitcoin Ecosystem With Dev Grants, Wrapped BTC
But the cryptocurrency exchange today announced it is offering two grants from its Crypto Community Fund to developers that work on the Bitcoin core code or "closely associated" projects. Related Reading | Why A Stock Market Listing For Coinbase Is Ultimately Ironic For Crypto A blog post from Coinbase EVP of Engineering Manish Gupta explains that Bitcoin was born without fundraising, yet "bootstrapped" an entire than other projects that have active founders, a team of developers, and even a marketing team, Bitcoin thrives on the open-source community alone.
Ethereum-Wrapped BTC To Trade on Pro Platform, Tokenized Crypto Synergy Unlocked Coinbase Pro,(formerly GDAX) the professional trading platform owned by Coinbase, also announced it kickstarting deposits on October 19, to begin allowing trading of Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) starting October 20. And with Coinbase now embracing tokenized BTC, the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and DeFi ecosystem will grow better together.
