Key Takeaways Coinbase traced the 50-minute outage to an undetected Kubernetes resource name collision during a routine infrastructure update. The incident disrupted transfers, Coinbase Card debit purchases, institutional settlements, and onchain services across multiple platforms. The outage also disabled Coinbase’s normal rollback process, prompting new safeguards and infrastructure changes. Coinbase Explains What Went Wrong Crypto exchange Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) has identified the software error behind last week’s outage that left customers unable to complete transfers, make purchases with Coinbase Card, and access several onchain services for about 50 minutes. According to a postmortem published on July 21, engineers were deploying …


