Coinbase Advanced

What is Coinbase Advanced?

Coinbase Advanced (formerly Coinbase Pro) is Coinbase’s feature-rich trading platform built for professional and institutional users. Offering access to over 550 cryptocurrency markets, it supports trading across major assets like BTC, ETH, SOL, and over 500 altcoins with a highly configurable interface, charting via TradingView, advanced order types (limit, stop-limit, market, and trailing stop), and a suite of APIs for automation . The platform boasts tight spreads, competitive volume-based maker-taker fees, and zero monthly account minimums.

Coinbase Advanced emphasizes liquidity aggregation, connecting to Coinbase’s exchange ecosystem and external LPs. Its infrastructure features real-time orderbooks, 24/7 monitoring, and layered security—cold & hot wallets, SOC 2 compliance, and routine third-party penetration tests . The platform accommodates both retail and institutional flow through multi-user subaccount management, granular order routing, and advanced chart overlays.

Notable integrations include seamless charting with TradingView indicators—EMA, MACD, RSI, Bollinger Bands—and portfolio management tools like custom watchlists and risk alerts. APIs allow high-frequency trading, custom bots, and algorithmic execution, with data endpoints streaming full market depth and historical tick data .

Coinbase Advanced is suitable for market analysis, quantitative trading strategies, and institutional-grade execution. Whether peer-to-peer arbitrage, hedging via paired trades, or building crypto-focused analytics, it delivers advanced capabilities within Coinbase’s trusted ecosystem.

For accounting teams using Cryptoworth’s cost basis calculator and accounting software, Coinbase Advanced provides granular trade and fee data—timestamps, volumes, fees, and prices—structured for automated cost basis calculations, ledger journal entries, and reconciled profit/loss tracking.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Cryptoworth calculate cost basis from Coinbase Advanced trades?

Yes. Coinbase Advanced’s detailed trade and fee exports—timestamped and priced—integrate seamlessly with Cryptoworth’s cost-basis calculator to support FIFO or weighted-average computations and journal-ready outputs.

Does Coinbase Advanced support enterprise-grade API integration?

Absolutely. Cryptoworth ingests Coinbase Advanced REST and websocket APIs to pull trade, fee, and balance data in real-time, enabling full automation for large trading teams.

Are trading fees and spreads captured?

Yes. Fee metadata—including maker/taker classification—is encoded in each trade and imported by Cryptoworth as expense or income line items for accurate accounting.

Does advanced chart data affect accounting?

No. While technical indicators and charts enhance trading, they don’t impact ledger data. Cryptoworth focuses solely on executed trades, fees, and asset movements.