Crypto exchange Coinbase is now valued at over $8 billion after it closed a new $300 million funding round.

The US exchange held a Series E investment last week.

Coinbase Funding will Enhance Growth

Coinbase is one of the world’s largest exchanges by trading volume, and it has been at the fore of the cryptocurrency movement when it exploded in 2017.

In the first half of that year, the exchange facilitated almost $15 billion in digital currency exchanges. That number was five times the amount exchanged across all of 2016. Now, in 2018 and moving into 2019, the platform has amassed $525 million from investors to date.

Broadening Coinbase

The company has spent 2018 focusing on broadening its services; the exchange is aiming to cater to institutional investors, and this new Coinbase funding will help further that effort.

Interestingly, the company is planning on broadening its footprint outside of the US. It wants to offer fiat-to-crypto exchange services in other parts of the world.

And it seems this is a strategy most major platforms are implementing. Binance—the world’s largest exchange based on trading volume—has plans to open ten fiat-to-crypto exchanges worldwide by the end of 2019.