Coinbase Reopens India Access, Sets 2026 Target for Cash-to-Crypto Purchases
Coinbase has reopened user registrations in India after a hiatus of more than two years, marking its most significant step yet toward re-establishing a footprint in one of the world’s largest digital-asset markets.
The exchange operator is now allowing Indian customers to sign up and conduct crypto-to-crypto trades, according to Coinbase’s director for Asia-Pacific, John O’Loghlen.
Coinbase has reopened user registrations in India after a hiatus of more than two years, marking its most significant step yet toward re-establishing a footprint in one of the world’s largest digital-asset markets.
The exchange operator is now allowing Indian customers to sign up and conduct crypto-to-crypto trades, according to Coinbase’s director for Asia-Pacific, John O’Loghlen.
Speaking at India Blockchain Week, O’Loghlen said the company plans to introduce a fiat on-ramp in 2026, TechCrunch reported Sunday.
That feature would enable users to load rupees into the app and purchase digital assets directly, a capability Coinbase abandoned weeks after launching in 2022, when the operator of the country’s Unified Payments Interface distanced itself from the platform.
The company later withdrew entirely from India, offboarding “millions” of users in 2023 as it shifted to what O’Loghlen described as a “clean slate” approach with domestic regulators.
Coinbase subsequently began formal engagement with India’s Financial Intelligence Unit, which oversees compliance and anti-fraud norms, and secured registration earlier this year.
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