Coinbase vs Kraken
A tie, on what we measured. Both score 10/10. The difference between them is not something our probe can see, so we are not going to invent one.
Last collection 2026-08-25: probed 252 services, measured 233, over a 90-day window.
| Measured | Coinbase | Kraken |
|---|---|---|
| Status now | Operational | Degraded |
| Score On what we could measure: 38% of the criteria weight for Coinbase, 38% for Kraken. | 10/10 | 10/10 |
| Value locked | — | — |
| Audits | — | — |
| Age | 14.7 yr | 15.7 yr |
| Latency (our probe) | 165 ms | 102 ms |
| Status feed | statuspage | statuspage |
Coinbase
10 / 1038% measuredNo public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
Live 14.7 yr (since founding (2012), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No audit data — no smart-contract surface to audit, or none published to DefiLlama.
Publishes a machine-readable incident archive (statuspage) — its whole record can be checked by anyone, including against us.
Measured 165 ms, but at a different surface from the rest of this category — not comparable, so shown as context, not scored.
Kraken
10 / 1038% measuredNo public on-chain value to measure — not a smart-contract service, or not tracked by DefiLlama.
Live 15.7 yr (since founding (2011), public record). Most failures happen young, so time survived is real signal.
No audit data — no smart-contract surface to audit, or none published to DefiLlama.
Publishes a machine-readable incident archive (statuspage) — its whole record can be checked by anyone, including against us.
Measured 102 ms, but at a different surface from the rest of this category — not comparable, so shown as context, not scored.
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