Two additional tickers are now fully tradable on Coinbase. The DATA-USD and WHUF-USD pairs — both quoted in US dollars — support all order types on both Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced, after completing the platform's standard staged onboarding process.

How the rollout unfolded

Full trading for both pairs went live on October 8, 2026. Each pair first entered auction mode, which lasted at least 10 minutes. In an auction, buyers and sellers submit orders that are then matched at a single opening price — a setup intended to support orderly price discovery when a market debuts.

Next came limit-only mode. Traders could post limit orders, meaning they specify the exact price at which they are willing to trade. Market orders, which execute immediately at whatever price is available, remained switched off during this phase.

Only after completing these stages did Coinbase move the pairs into full trading, with every order type enabled. The phased approach is designed to let a new order book build resting liquidity before immediately-executing orders are switched on.

Two tokens, two very different backstories

DATA is not so much a new project as a new name. The token is a rebrand and migration of the former Story (IP) token. Trading in the old token was suspended on October 5, 2026, and re-enabled around October 7–8 under the new DATA ticker. The swap ran at a 1:1 ratio: holders of the old token received the same number of DATA tokens, and the exchange came at no cost to them. In practical terms, the migration changed the ticker rather than holders' balances.

WHUF, short for Whuffie, is the genuinely new arrival. It is the native asset of the Ethos Network, a project built around a decentralized reputation platform — a model that aims to record credibility signals without a single central gatekeeper.

WHUF reached Coinbase following a public sale that closed on September 8, 2026. The sale raised $8.4 million from 1,560 participants, with tokens priced at $4.20 each. The token has a fixed supply of 10 million, of which 20% was set aside for the public sale. Twenty percent of 10 million is 2 million tokens, and 2 million tokens at $4.20 apiece accounts for the full $8.4 million raised — an average of roughly $5,385 per participant, with the remaining 80% of the fixed supply sitting outside the public-sale allocation.

A transfer lock on withdrawals expired on the same day full trading opened. As a result, the day the order books fully unlocked was also the day sale participants gained greater freedom to move their tokens. For anyone following WHUF's early market life, that overlap is the scheduling detail to track: unrestricted order books and unrestricted withdrawals arrived together, on the same date.

Source: CryptoBriefing