{"id":40709,"date":"2021-04-14T10:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T07:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40709"},"modified":"2025-08-30T15:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:23:31","slug":"coinbase-gives-100-shares-to-each-employee-ahead-of-direct-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/coinbase-gives-100-shares-to-each-employee-ahead-of-direct-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase Gives 100 Shares to Each Employee Ahead of Direct Listing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-announces-date-for-direct-listing\">a direct listing<\/a> on Nasdaq, the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase distributed 100 shares to each of its 1,700 full-time employees. CoinDesk reports.<\/p>\n<p>Nasdaq <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nasdaq-sets-reference-price-for-coinbase-shares-at-250\">set a reference price<\/a> for COIN at $250. At that price, each employee received $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>Traders on FTX value Coinbase at nearly $150 billion, and COIN shares at more than $500. At that price, each employee received more than $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>The exact value of the gift will be determined by the market during COIN trading on Nasdaq, which opens on April 14 at 16:30 MSK.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, Binance <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/binance-to-list-tokenised-coinbase-stock-tokens\">will add to the listings the Coinbase Stock Token (COIN)<\/a>, backed by a portfolio of real shares from a U.S. exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of its direct listing on Nasdaq, the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase distributed 100 shares to each of its 1,700 full-time employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,1286,1211],"class_list":["post-40709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coinbase","tag-listing","tag-stock-market"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40711,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40709\/revisions\/40711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}