{"id":97611,"date":"2026-06-02T04:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=97611"},"modified":"2026-06-02T04:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:03:02","slug":"coinbase-takes-next-step-in-india-with-direct-inr-banking-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=97611","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase Takes Next Step In India With Direct INR Banking Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has launched direct deposit and withdrawal rails for the Indian Rupee (INR), continuing its push into India.<\/p>\n<h2>Coinbase Users In India Can Now Make Direct INR Netflows<\/h2>\n<p>According to a website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinbase.com\/zh-sg\/blog\/coinbase-launches-in-india-with-direct-inr-rails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announcement<\/a>, Coinbase has expanded its offerings in India, allowing users to directly interact with the platform through the nation\u2019s official fiat currency: the INR.<\/p>\n<p>Indian users can now use the platform\u2019s fiat rails to deposit and withdraw INR without having to go through intermediaries like peer-to-peer (P2P) trading, as is the norm for some other international exchanges with a presence in the country. For facilitating the transactions, the exchange is making use of the Immediate Payment Service (IMPS), a popular interbank fund transfer system in India.<\/p>\n<p>Coinbase noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Customers have access to spot trading across a range of assets, alongside perpetual futures contracts covering major crypto assets. We have built local INR order books that provide dedicated liquidity for Indian customers, with continued access to our global exchange.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The current Indian push is not the first time that the exchange has taken a crack at the subcontinent. Back in 2022, the platform made its initial entrance into the country, but soon after launch, it was forced to suspend access to Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions, leaving users with no way to participate in trading on the platform with the INR. The next year, Coinbase completely discontinued its services in India.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, however, the platform once again made a return to the market, this time with approval from India\u2019s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). \u201cFor Indian customers, our FIU-IND registration means we operate under the compliance framework established for virtual digital asset service providers in India,\u201d said Coinbase.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange saw a full relaunch in India in December, but it still lacked a fiat on-ramp, something that most retail traders rely on. With this new expansion, it has also finally changed.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond its exchange, Coinbase has also been investing in the country\u2019s digital asset ecosystem in other ways. The firm is an investor in <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/crypto-exchange-coindcx-falls-to-44-million-hack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">CoinDCX<\/a>, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in India. \u201cThrough Base, our Ethereum Layer 2 network, we\u2019ve put over $1 million into the Indian builder community through hackathons, direct grants, and fellowships,\u201d noted the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Coinbase, the <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/bitcoin-etfs-1-42b-weekly-outflows-bloodbath-may\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">Bitcoin<\/a> spot price on the exchange has been trading lower relative to Binance recently, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/bitcoin-coinbase-premium-green-us-selling-pressure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">Coinbase Premium Gap<\/a> metric from <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoquant.com\/asset\/btc\/chart\/market-data\/coinbase-premium-gap?window=DAY&amp;sma=0&amp;ema=0&amp;priceScale=log&amp;metricScale=linear&amp;chartStyle=line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CryptoQuant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-683086 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chart.png?w=980&amp;resize=980%2C405\" alt=\"Bitcoin Coinbase Premium\" width=\"980\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chart.png?w=1526 1526w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chart.png?w=640 640w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chart.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chart.png?w=980 980w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chart.png?w=750 750w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/chart.png?w=1140 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\"><\/p>\n<p>From the chart, it\u2019s visible that the gap between the Bitcoin prices on Coinbase and <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/bitcoin-faces-fresh-danger-as-miner-inflows-to-binance-surge\/\">Binance<\/a> has widened as the cryptocurrency has gone down since mid-May. This could be a potential indication that Coinbase\u2019s users have been applying a higher amount of selling pressure than the latter\u2019s traders.<\/p>\n<h2>Bitcoin Price<\/h2>\n<p>At the time of writing, Bitcoin is floating around $72,600, down more than 6% over the past week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/x\/Rk6Wswox\/\" alt=\"Bitcoin Price Chart\" width=\"1486\" height=\"957\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has launched direct deposit and withdrawal rails for the Indian Rupee (INR), continuing its push into India. Coinbase Users In India Can Now Make Direct INR Netflows According to a website announcement, Coinbase has expanded its offerings in India, allowing users to directly interact with the platform through the nation\u2019s official fiat [&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-97611","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\/97611","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=97611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}