Benjamin Schiller

Benjamin Schiller is CoinDesk's managing editor for features and opinion. Previously, he was editor-in-chief at BREAKER Magazine and a staff writer at Fast Company. He holds some ETH, BTC and LINK.

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Finance

Creator of Controversial LIBRA Memecoin Introduced MELANIA, Says He Sniped Both Tokens

Hayden Davis said he refunded $5 million to Dave Portnoy who lost money on LIBRA.

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Markets

Ether ETFs Register $393M in Inflows This Month as Crypto Investors Turn Their Back on Bitcoin

Investors pivot to ether ETFs as Ethereum's impending Pectra upgrade is expected to bode well for cryptocurrency.

Leveraged MSTR ETFs see a surge in trading volumes (steinarhovland/Pixabay)

Finance

Brevan Howard Digital Deploys $20M on Ethereum-Based Kinto in Institutional DeFi Push

The investment enables participation in Kinto’s mining program, which rewards asset deposits on the chain with token emission.

Ramon Recuero, Kinto CEO and co-founder (Kinto)

Coindesk News

El Salvador Dispatch: How Bitcoin Taught a Nation to Dream

The Central American nation is on a roll. This year’s Plan B conference was electric, featuring famous speakers from abroad as well as native Spanish content.

Sunset in San Salvador. Credit: Ricky Mejia, Unsplash

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Justin Sun on Mars, Tropico, Game of Thrones, and That Banana

Sam Reynolds meets TRON's founder at home in Hong Kong.

Crypto's Justin Sun (Tron)

Coindesk News

El Salvador Dispatch: The Origins of the Bitcoin Experiment

El Zonte inspired Bukele to make bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador. CoinDesk visited the surfing village to see how it’s developing.

A small river divides El Zonte in half. You can easily cross the stream from the beach if you don’t mind getting your feet wet. Credit: Luis Rodriguez, Unsplash

Tech

Story Protocol Launches to Let People Register IP and Get Paid for It

Story protocol is an intellectual property blockchain backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

PIP Labs CEO and Story Protocol Co-Founder SY Lee (Provided)

Opinion

Why Congress Needs to Act on Digital Assets – Reps. French Hill and Bryan Steil

Leading House lawmakers say the U.S. should move fast on crypto and blockchain legislation.

(Image via Shutterstock)

Coindesk News

El Salvador Dispatch: Searching for Bitcoin City, the Modern El Dorado

President Nayib Bukele vowed to build Bitcoin City on the Conchagua volcano. CoinDesk went looking for signs of construction.

The Conchagua volcano facing the Gulf of Fonseca (Esaú Fuentes González, Unsplash)

Tech

The Protocol: Can Based Rollups Solve Ethereum’s Layer-2 Problem?

Also: Lido goes modular; Uniswap finally launches Unichain

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