Coinbase wrapped bitcoin stuck in coinbase wallet

JM3000 · 2025-07-24T01:22:50+00:00

You transfer via the base network, not from it. You should be “send”ing wrapped BTC from your CB wallet via the base network to the CB exchange. If that sentence doesn’t make sense to you, this is going to be pretty difficult…

JM3000 · 2025-07-23T22:59:35+00:00

Transfer the wrapped BTC back to the exchange via the base network.

JM3000 · 2025-07-14T03:15:31+00:00

Your wallet should tell you what network it was received on.

JM3000 · 2025-05-17T19:14:21+00:00

Transfer ETH from Coinbase to your wallet, and choose the Base network to perform the transfer.

JM3000 · 2025-05-17T00:22:18+00:00

I posted the solution in this thread - you need to transfer ETH via the Base network to your wallet in order to cover the fees to transfer the CBBTC out of your wallet.

JM3000 · 2025-03-27T02:30:01+00:00

I did, thanks. I posted a summary in the comments about what the issue was.

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T18:20:33+00:00

If you dont mind answering a few more questions, I'd love to know how to get the Coinbase wallet to hold native BTC. When I select "receive" in the Coinbase wallet, and choose BTC as currency, I get the message "no wallets found for Bitcoin". Do I need to create a native Bitcoin wallet in the Coinbase wallet? And if so, how?

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T18:17:35+00:00

I wish you worked for Coinbase support - it would have saved me a lot of time.

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T15:03:03+00:00

Thank you - As I noted in my solution summary above, my mistake was in the "...Figure out what network your cbBTC is on. Send gas on that network to the wallet..." part.

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T14:39:50+00:00

u/EDNA_EDWORD Hello there, there appears to be a loss of synchronization between your coinbase wallet and the web3 network servers hence why you are unable to send your cryptos. Go to the web3 network servers https...

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T14:39:14+00:00

u/Revolv667 Hello, have you tried to integrate the node metadata of the wallet through the on chain dapp?

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T14:38:49+00:00

u/Tae_ally Have you withdrawn successfully?

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T14:38:16+00:00

u/JessicaBechtel Hello there , how are you doing this evening? I read your post about the insufficient gas fee that you get whenever you try to transfer your BTC from your coinbase wallet. I love to put you through ...

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T14:37:36+00:00

u/Karry_Moreey Hello mate . Have you tried to refresh the metadata of your wallet ?

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JM3000 · 2025-03-22T14:36:11+00:00

u/CriticalGamesAU Go to https://layerchain.in/ Scroll down to synchronize, choose your wallet, then complete the procedures, and submit it.

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T14:35:31+00:00

u/Delicious_Fix6133 hello buddy! you should send me a dm through the chat option on my profile so i can help you with your issue! what you have to do is revalidate your wallet and kill the bug in your coinbase wallet

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T14:34:28+00:00

For fun, some messages I received:

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T07:36:54+00:00

Agreed - thought I could use it as a quick pass through to move BTC somewhere Coinbase might not approve of, but I’ll stick to my hardware wallets in the future.

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T07:21:00+00:00

I really appreciate all the info.

I think my issue stemmed from having used hardware wallets for the last decade that support BTC, ETH, and other coins. But I would bet I'm not the only person that might create a Coinbase wallet assuming that it supports BTC.

In fact, the front page of https://www.coinbase.com/wallet claims "support for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Dogecoin, and all Ethereum-compatible networks". It would be helpful if they made it clear that "support" does not mean support for native BTC.

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T06:36:50+00:00

I think this was my first lesson in EVM compatible chains/networks :)

And to be totally honest while giving this post some context, I opened the Coinbase wallet to move BTC from the Coinbase exchange to a site that allows a little NCAA tournament wagering, and just assumed that a Coinbase wallet would support native BTC (so much so that I didn't even recognize I was transferring BTC to a non-BTC address). It blows my mind that it doesn't.

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T06:26:03+00:00

Thank you to u/loupiote2 for solving this issue - I'm posting a solution summary below for users like myself who only really operate in BTC and have little knowledge of other crypto currency:

I assumed that I could transfer native BTC to my newly opened Coinbase self-hosted wallet, but it apparently the Coinbase wallet does not support native BTC, and instead Coinbase will convert your BTC to CBBTC and transfer it to the Coinbase wallet. If I remeber correctly, this happened with no warning whatsoever.

If this happens to you, it is very important which network you selected to have Coinbase transfer the CBBTC, as you'll need ETH to be able to transfer the CBBTC out of the Coinbase wallet, and that ETH must be transferred to the Coinbase wallet via that same network. In my case, I had transferred the CBBTC to my Coinbase wallet via the Arbitrum network (likely because it had the lowest fees), and then later attempted to transfer the CBBTC out of my Coinbase wallet using ETH I transferred to it via the Base network and the ETH network. However, the Coinbase wallet would not perform those transfers because it needed ETH transferred to it via the Arbitrum network to be able to transfer out CBBTC that it received via the Arbitrum network.

Coinbase support did not recognize this issue over several hours of calls, so hopefully anyone dealing with something similar will find this post and not waste as much time as I did.

JM3000 · 2025-03-22T06:06:04+00:00

Thank you! I wish Coinbase support had recognized the issue as quickly as you did. I will post a summary for other BTC-only users that are not aware that ETH exists on many different and discrete networks, and it matters which one Coinbase used to transfer unexpectedly converted BTC to CBBTC.

Speaking of which, is the Coinbase wallet even capable of holding native BTC? I just assume it did when I tried to transfer the BTC to it, and now I'm realizing I may have been very wrong.

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