{"id":57748,"date":"2022-02-15T09:38:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T07:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57748"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:19:31","slug":"temasek-sells-coinbase-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/temasek-sells-coinbase-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"Temasek Sells Coinbase Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temasek, the Singaporean investment holding, has sold shares of the Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. This is evidenced by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1021944\/000110465922021658\/xslForm13F_X01\/a22-4468_5informationtable.xml\"> report<\/a> for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).<\/p>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1021944\/000110465921138459\/xslForm13F_X01\/a21-30456_33informationtable.xml\"> documents<\/a> for the third quarter 2021, Temasek held 8,168 Coinbase shares worth about $2.1 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/0VB9cA7yf6QwyqOp7A_f4wIhx4A9Dbr6AdQyqKOqUJp1du93JpOdlYzQfTkpPiLnt4dn7Kpvq_cliqSUi0IpIVfqXBTr2D8ek2lN52XVbswiCsvVHoBcYm9xYUtbm8YGhDsRCYr4\" alt=\"Temasek sells Coinbase shares\"\/><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Data: SEC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the fourth-quarter report, there is no information about Temasek&#8217;s stake in Coinbase shares. The holding&#8217;s total portfolio at the end of last year was valued at $301 billion.<\/p>\n<p>On April 14, 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-shares-begin-trading-on-nasdaq-market-capitalisation-tops-100bn\"> direct listing of Coinbase <\/a> (ticker: COIN) on Nasdaq. The opening price was $381. During the first session, the company&#8217;s market capitalization exceeded $85 billion.<\/p>\n<p>On May 17, the stock price first fell below<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nasdaq-sets-reference-price-for-coinbase-shares-at-250\"> the reference price ($250)<\/a>. The decline came amid a crypto-market correction \u2014 Bitcoin<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-price-falls-below-43000\"> briefly reached $42,185<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, Coinbase <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-to-raise-1-25-billion-as-stock-slides\"> announced<\/a> a private placement of convertible bonds worth $1.25 billion with maturity in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In September the company announced plans to conduct a private placement<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-to-issue-1-5-billion-of-senior-notes-for-general-corporate-purposes-including-potential-ma\"> of two bond issues totaling $1.5 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The closing price on Monday, February 14, 2022, was $194.53. Since listing, COIN shares have fallen more than 40%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/vZ8kSnhCuxZUC13YNHSXWSoWUodbZAPw595jrpg7BOL0JCLFRgvE3hjcF9gqmTXX493sBUyWzDaFesBKMUJyKN8IW4BgfjMpTbVasJgbBh2SwMQjT-s_SxMrRApkpzy5aMJ_lcNY\" alt=\"Temasek sells Coinbase shares\"\/><figcaption>Data: Nasdaq, Google.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In April 2021, asset manager Ark Invest, through three of its exchange-traded funds, bought<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ark-invest-buys-749205-coinbase-shares-on-debut\"> 749,205 Coinbase shares<\/a> on the first day of trading.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, Cathie Wood<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ark-invest-buys-coinbase-shares-worth-110-million\"> bought additional Coinbase securities worth $110 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full news coverage, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Singaporean investment holding Temasek sold Coinbase shares of the Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange, according to a report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57749,"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":[138,2175],"class_list":["post-57748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coinbase","tag-temasek"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57748","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=57748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57750,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57748\/revisions\/57750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}