{"id":32831,"date":"2020-12-04T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T09:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32831"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:39:40","slug":"coinbase-joins-square-led-cryptocurrency-open-patent-alliance-copa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/coinbase-joins-square-led-cryptocurrency-open-patent-alliance-copa\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase joins Square-led Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has joined the board of the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA). Along with the trading platform, the initiative has been supported by 18 companies, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/open-patent.org\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">according to a statement<\/a> from the consortium.<\/p>\n<p>Coinbase pledged to promote the idea of an open patent base for all companies. The alliance described such an approach as a way to address problems arising from patent-blocking of fundamental cryptocurrency technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Among COPA members are Satoshi Labs, Kraken, Protocol Labs and Blockstream. Board members include Square Crypto head Steve Lee and Paradigm partner Dan Robinson.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Independent members of the board are regarded as experts within the community. They are well known for their contributions to advancing cryptocurrency initiatives,&#8221; said alliance representatives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, the COPA was initiated by the payments company Square <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/square-forms-patent-alliance-for-cryptocurrency-firms\">led by<\/a> Jack Dorsey. It proposed forming an open patent library to foster innovations in the cryptocurrency industry.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">VK<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has joined the board of the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA). Alongside the trading platform, 18 companies supported the initiative, according to the consortium&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,570,1534],"class_list":["post-32831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coinbase","tag-patents","tag-square"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32833,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32831\/revisions\/32833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}