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All three core trading actions — buying, selling, and converting — on both the main platform and the DEX feature incur fees.
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 →You will be charged fees when you buy, sell, or convert cryptocurrencies on Coinbase or through its DEX trading feature.
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"When you buy, sell, or convert cryptocurrencies on Coinbase or using the DEX trading feature, fees are charged.Excerpt from Coinbase's Fee Schedule
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All three core trading actions — buying, selling, and converting — on both the main platform and the DEX feature incur fees.
You will be charged fees when you buy, sell, or convert cryptocurrencies on Coinbase or through its DEX trading feature.
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