Coinbase Expands Its Crypto Offering To 11 More Countries

The major American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has decided to expand its crypto to crypto trading to more countries, as a recent blog post published by the exchange noted. The news that Coinbase expands went viral on many best cryptocurrency news sites and was well accepted by the crypto community.

The full crypto news showed that Coinbase and its professional trading platform Coinbase Pro have introduced the crypto-to-crypto conversions and trading to 11 more countries in Latin America and Southeast Asia. The product is now available in the following countries: Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Chile, India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and New Zealand.

As Coinbase explained:

“This could take the form of decentralized versions of traditional financial services like lending or micropayments or truly novel crypto applications that no one has even thought of yet. The ability to convert from one crypto to another will form the backbone of this new decentralized economy.”

Meanwhile, the news that Coinbase expands allow customers in the aforementioned countries to store, trade, send and receive cryptocurrencies. As the latest cryptocurrency news show, the exchange also suggested that cryptocurrencies are moving from the current “investment phase” into the “utility phase” following a number of new use cases.

Recently, the company introduced a lot of new developments, one of which was featured in the altcoin news section. It was the added support for EOS (EOS), Maker (MKR) and Augur (REP) which went viral and expanded into cross-border payments. The latter development reportedly enables users to send as well as receive money instantly and convert them into local currency.

As part of the news that Coinbase expands, the report concluded:

“Realizing our mission of creating an open financial system for the world starts with making it as easy as possible to access crypto. With today’s announcement, we’re happy to take an important step in that direction.”

Earlier in April this year, Coinbase also launched the Coinbase Card in a partnership with Visa, enabling its United Kingdom-based customers to pay in-store and online using cryptocurrencies. As a result, the new service will allow Coinbase to instantly convert the customers’ cryptocurrency funds into fiat currency in order to complete each purchase.

This is definitely a lot of news coverage showing that Coinbase expands in different directions and is on a mission to offer various trading options globally.