secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN)
CIK:        0001679788
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-02-03T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001679788-22-000004
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Coinbase appoints Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke to board; approves up to $5.1M in CEO security expenses
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- Tobi Lütke appointed to board effective Feb 2, 2022; receives 1,867 RSUs vesting over 3 years and 522 pro-rated RSUs.
- Compensation Committee approved up to $4.0M annually for CEO Brian Armstrong's personal security and IT support, plus tax gross-ups.
- One-time payment of up to $1.1M approved for 2022 for CEO security and IT improvements, with tax gross-ups.
- Lütke uses Coinbase platform as a customer in ordinary course; no other material interests.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000167978822000004/0001679788-22-000004-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000167978822000004/coin-20220131.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001679788-22-000004

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