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Users may not receive any benefit from favorable pricing differences; Coinbase is permitted to retain the full amount of any excess spread.
Interpretive note: The excerpt does not define 'excess spread', which introduces some ambiguity about the scope of what Coinbase may retain, but the proposition itself is stated explicitly.
The updated fee schedule removes the pre-published 1% fee for instant unstaking and instead discloses the fee only at the moment a user requests to unstake. This means users can no longer review the exact cost before initiating a transaction through the published schedule. The revision also explicitly includes converting a pending standard unstake to an instant unstake as a fee-triggering action. No fee continues to apply if a user waits for the full unbonding period.
View change record →Any excess spread generated on your transaction may be kept by Coinbase rather than returned to you.
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Users may not receive any benefit from favorable pricing differences; Coinbase is permitted to retain the full amount of any excess spread.
Any excess spread generated on your transaction may be kept by Coinbase rather than returned to you.
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