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Add Coinbase as a social connection

You will learn the following:

  • Use Coinbase to authenticate users with OAuth

Before you start

Enabling OAuth with Coinbase allows your users to sign up and sign in to your Clerk app with their Coinbase account.

Configure for your development instance

For development instances, Clerk uses preconfigured shared OAuth credentials and redirect URIs—no other configuration is needed.

  1. In the Clerk Dashboard, navigate to the SSO connections page.
  2. Select Add connection and select For all users.
  3. In the Choose provider dropdown, select Coinbase.
  4. Select Add connection.

Configure for your production instance

For production instances, you must provide custom credentials which involves generating your own Client ID and Client Secret using your Coinbase account.

To make the setup process easier, it's recommended to keep two browser tabs open: one for the Clerk Dashboard and one for your Coinbase's Developer Platform.

Enable Coinbase as a social connection in Clerk

  1. In the Clerk Dashboard, navigate to the SSO connections page.
  2. Select Add connection and select For all users.
  3. In the Choose provider dropdown, select Coinbase.
  4. Ensure that both Enable for sign-up and sign-in and Use custom credentials are toggled on.
  5. Save the Redirect URI somewhere secure. Keep the modal and page open.

Create a Coinbase app

Note

Coinbase automatically creates a default project for you named Project 1. Select the icon next to the project name to rename it.

  1. In your Coinbase Developer Platform project dashboard, navigate to the API keys tab.
  2. Select OAuth, then select Create client.
  3. Complete the required fields. In Redirect URIs, paste the Redirect URI you saved from the Clerk Dashboard.
  4. Select Create client. The page will refresh and you should see the Client ID and Client Secret in the OAuth section. Save both values somewhere secure.

Set the Client ID and Client Secret in the Clerk Dashboard

  1. Navigate back to the Clerk Dashboard where the modal should still be open. Paste the Client ID and Client Secret values that you saved into the respective fields.
  2. Select Add connection.

Note

If the modal or page is not still open, navigate to the SSO connections page in the Clerk Dashboard. Select the Coinbase connection. Under Use custom credentials, you can paste the Client ID and Client Secret into their respective fields.

Test your OAuth

The simplest way to test your OAuth is to visit your Clerk app's Account Portal, which is available for all Clerk apps out-of-the-box.

  1. In the Clerk Dashboard, navigate to the Account Portal page.
  2. Next to the Sign-in URL, select Visit. The URL should resemble:
  • For development – https://your-domain.accounts.dev/sign-in
  • For production – https://accounts.your-domain.com/sign-in
  1. Sign in with your Coinbase account.

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