Final notes ahead of the Coinbase direct listing

This post offers our quick take from Coinbase's headline 1Q results. For previous analysis on Coinbase, check out The Block Research S-1 analysis — and for a deeper overview of Coinbase, our latest Coinbase Company Intelligence report which covers Coinbase product and service lines, org chart, investment maps, employment and funding trends, and more.

In what surely has to be one of the better final window dressings of a business set to go public in recent memory, Coinbase yesterday released a flash update of its headline 1Q results ahead of next week's landmark direct listing.