Cheyenne Ligon

On the news team at CoinDesk, Cheyenne focuses on crypto regulation and crime. Cheyenne is originally from Houston, Texas. She studied political science at Tulane University in Louisiana. In December 2021, she graduated from CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she focused on business and economics reporting. She has no significant crypto holdings.

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Policy

Celsius’ Third Bankruptcy Hearing Yields Little in the Way of Customer Relief

The three-hour hearing was largely spent on a back-and-forth over whether custodial account holders will be able to get their money back.

Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky at Consensus 2019 (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

5 Top Crypto Lawyers Join Law Firm Brown Rudnick’s Digital Commerce Practice

Well-known crypto lawyer Stephen Palley will co-chair Brown Rudnick’s Digital Commerce practice.

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Layer 2

Can Crypto Save the Cannabis Industry?

The legal cannabis industry’s problems go much deeper than a lack of access to banking. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Sin Week.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Policy

Coinbase Wants You to Register to Vote (for Pro-Crypto Candidates)

The U.S.-based exchange’s newly launched crypto policy education initiative includes a voter registration tool.

(Arnaud Jaegers/Unsplash)

Tech

DeFi Platform Acala’s Stablecoin Falls 99% After Hackers Issue 1.3B Tokens

A bug in the protocol’s newly deployed iBTC-aUSD liquidity pool left the door wide open for hackers to exploit.

The Polkadot pavilion on the Promenade at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Policy

NFT Collections Will Be Regulated Like Cryptocurrencies Under EU’s MiCA Law, Official Says

A carve-out for ownership tokens may prove narrow, meaning issuers have to publish white papers.

NFT regulation was discussed at Korea Blockchain Week in Seoul. (Cheyenne Ligon)

Policy

EU Official Says Europe’s MiCA Bill Would Prevent Collapses Like Terra's

Peter Kerstens said the rules would require stablecoins to be fully collateralized and redeemable upon request.

Seoul, South Korea (Ciaran O'Brien/Unsplash)

Finance

South Korean Web 2 Metaverse Platform Zepeto Gets a Web3 Makeover

The Naver-owned social network worked with Jump Crypto to build ZepetoX on the Solana blockchain.

Seoul, South Korea (Shutterstock)

Layer 2

In Crypto Winter, Jesse Powell’s Pirate-King Leadership Style Might Be the New Normal

Less than 1% of employees have taken the CEO’s buyout offer since he laid down the law on culture. Do employees see Kraken as a “based” place to work, or just somewhere to ride out the bear market?

CEO Jesse Powell says he's trying to insulate Kraken from “people who basically [think] if you don’t agree with them you’re evil.” (Kraken)

Policy

2 California Men Sentenced to Prison for $1.9M Crypto Grift

The founders of Dropil, Jeremy McAlpine and Zachary Matar, pleaded guilty to one count each of securities fraud last August.

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