Coinbase is looking to focus more on institutional clients, company CFO Alesia Haas told CNBC on Wednesday.- She laid out what institutional firms generally look for when seeking their services.
Coinbase, the world's largest
"The way that we look at it is where the money is in the world," Haas told CNBC. "A lot of that money sits in institutional hands, whether that is in pensions or asset managers. So I think we'll shift into more institutional money as we go forward."
Haas also laid out what institutional firms generally look for when seeking their services.
The first step is usually for cryptocurrency custody, a service that Coinbase provides institutional firms so they can have a safe and secure way to store their digital assets, said Haas.
"They really appreciate our history of investing in security that we have not had a loss due to cyberattacks on our platforms since our inception," she told CNBC.
From there, Haas said it moves into trading, data services, and borrow-lend products, in that order.
"We're really building deep roots with a lot of our institutional clients across their investing needs in the
Among its roster of clients are Elon Musk's
The company on Tuesday posted second-quarter earnings that crushed analyst expectations, boosted by a volatility-spurred jump in trading volumes. The chart below shows pronounced quarter-over-quarter growth in both retail and institutional activity.
Retail investors, which pay more fees compared to institutional traders, comprised almost 95% of Coinbase's transaction revenue in the quarter.
Coinbase's stock rose to as much as 9% to $294 on Wednesday.