Coinbase Prime to Drop Custody Support for 49 Altcoins by End of April
Coinbase Prime, the institutional arm of the major U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, announced it will remove custody support for 49 altcoins by the end of this month.
The decision affects a wide range of niche blockchain tokens, including real estate-backed digital assets.
Which Altcoins Are Being Delisted?
In an April 14 post on X, Coinbase stated:
“We regularly evaluate the assets we support to ensure they continue to meet our standards. Based on recent reviews, Coinbase Prime will end custody support for 49 assets, effective the end of the month.”
You can see all the altcoins that are going to be delisted here. Among the most notable assets losing support are:
- BOSAGORA (BOA)
- 0chain (ZCN)
- pNetwork (PNT)
- Telcoin (TEL)
- Oraichain Token (ORAI)
- Sentinel Protocol (UPP)
- Cellframe (CELL)
- Ideaology (IDEA)
- RioDeFi (RFUEL)
What Does This Mean for Institutional Investors?
Coinbase Prime serves institutional clients by offering custody, trading, and financing solutions. Custody, in particular, provides a secure storage method that ensures regulatory compliance and robust asset protection for large-scale investments.
This removal signals a strategic reassessment of the platform’s supported assets, possibly driven by:
- Low liquidity
- Insufficient trading volume
- Lack of institutional demand
- Compliance or regulatory concerns
While some of the tokens have remained stable—or even gained in the short term (like PNT, ORAI, TEL, and IDEA)—others have experienced slight pullbacks.
Impacted Coinbase Prime clients will need to liquidate or transfer their holdings before the end of April 2025. Failure to do so may result in inaccessibility post-deadline.
Coinbase has not provided specific criteria for these removals but emphasized ongoing reviews to ensure its platform remains aligned with institutional standards.
Kosta has reported on cryptocurrency markets and blockchain infrastructure since 2020, bringing over six years of hands-on experience in the crypto industry built through daily tracking of markets, trends, and emerging blockchain developments. Specializing in Bitcoin on-chain analysis, institutional ETF flows, and digital asset price action, his work at Coindoo has been cited by other news agencies and consistently covers market developments with a focus on data-driven reporting across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP. Over the years, Kosta has contributed to multiple crypto media outlets in different regions, authoring over 6,000 articles across the sector. His reporting spans cryptocurrency markets and the broader fintech industry, tracking not only price action but also the technological and regulatory forces shaping the ecosystem. To support his analysis, Kosta actively leverages on-chain data and metrics from leading platforms such as Santiment, Glassnode, and CryptoQuant, enabling deeper, evidence-based market insights. He believes in the power of transparency and the data that underpins the blockchain ecosystem. His academic background in Marketing Management from Denmark further complements his analytical approach, adding a strong understanding of communication strategy and content positioning to his work.
