{"id":76206,"date":"2026-03-13T14:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=76206"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:01:34","slug":"coinbase-short-interest-doubles-in-2026-s3-data-shows-elevated-potential-for-short-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=76206","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase Short Interest Doubles In 2026: S3 Data Shows Elevated Potential For Short Squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Cryptocurrency trading platform <strong>Coinbase Global<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"COIN\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\">COIN<\/a>) is seeing elevated bets against the public company with short interest doubling in 2026. Here&#8217;s what that could mean for a share rally and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/what-is-a-short-squeeze\">potential short squeeze.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coinbase Short Interest Rises<\/h2>\n<p>Investors continue to look for stocks with high short interest that could see short squeezes as prices rise. While Coinbase is not among the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/movers\/26\/02\/50625620\/top-10-most-shorted-stocks-cleanspark-hims-hers-and-more\"> most shorted stocks <\/a>overall yet, the stock is seeing elevated short interest.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.s3partners.com\/articles\/coin-toss-large-short-position-vs-rally-squeeze\">report <\/a>from S3 Partners shows that Coinbase\u2019s short interest was around 5% in December and is now around 10%, doubling to start the 2026 year.<\/p>\n<p>The rising short interest comes amid Coinbase stock down 18.3% year-to-date, compared to a 16.7% decline for <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) and a 2.5% decline for the<strong> SPDR S&amp;P 500 ETF Trust<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"SPY\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" ...><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/long-ideas\/26\/03\/51240576\/coinbase-short-interest-doubles-in-2026-s3-data-shows-elevated-potential-for-short-squee?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Coinbase\" short interest doubles in s3 data shows elevated potential for squeeze>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN) is seeing elevated bets against the public company with short interest doubling in 2026. Here&#8217;s what that could mean for a share rally and potential short squeeze. Coinbase Short Interest Rises Investors continue to look for stocks with high short interest that could see short squeezes as prices rise. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-76206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}