Eliza Gkritsi

Eliza Gkritsi is a CoinDesk contributor focused on the intersection of crypto and AI, having previously covered mining for two years. She previously worked at TechNode in Shanghai and has graduated from the London School of Economics, Fudan University, and the University of York. She owns 25 WLD. She tweets as @egreechee.

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Finance

Coinbase in Talks to Acquire BtcTurk for About $3.2B: Report

The target is one of Turkey's oldest crypto exchanges.

(Engin Yapici/Unsplash)

Finance

Core Scientific Begins Reporting Daily Bitcoin Mining Production

The figure will be updated every day at 12:00 p.m. EST (16:00 UTC) on the mining company's home page in a bid to improve transparency.

Darin Feinstein, co-founder of Core Scientific, speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, April 8, 2022. The Bitcoin 2022 four-day conference is touted by organizers as "the biggest Bitcoin event in the world." Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Tech

Tornado Cash Adds Chainalysis Tool for Blocking OFAC-Sanctioned Wallets From Dapp

The blockade only applies to the Tornado Cash front end, not the underlying smart contract, one of the protocol's founders later tweeted.

Coin mixer Tornado Cash announced a nod toward compliance on Friday. (Espen Bierud/Unsplash)

Finance

South Korean Smart Contract Auditing Platform Sooho.io Raises $4.5M

The startup works with Samsung and LG.

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

Policy

Chinese Banking Associations Target NFTs

As the market heats up, the tokens are increasingly under the microscope in China.

China's crypto crackdown put digital-asset traders on the defensive. (Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum's First Mainnet Shadow Fork Goes Live as Move to PoS Continues

The shadow fork will stress test developers' assumptions on existing testnets and the mainnet.

Founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin during TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 (John Phillips/Creative Commons/CC2.0, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Tesla, Blockstream, Block to Mine Bitcoin Using Solar Power in Texas

The project aims to show that bitcoin mining using 100% renewable energy can be done at scale, says Blockstream CEO Adam Back.

Solar panels at dusk (Justin Paget/Getty images)

Policy

Industry Associations, Regulator Give Some Clarity on Singapore's Crypto Ad Rules: Report

Advertising to retail investors will be disallowed, as Singapore limits crypto trading to professional investors.

Singapore skyline (Unsplash)

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz, SoftBank Lead $150M Raise for Metaverse Startup Improbable

The multiplayer services provider is accelerating its push into the metaverse.

A scene from inside Decentral Games' metaverse casino. (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)

Finance

Sky Mavis Raises $150M Round Led by Binance to Reimburse Ronin Attack Victims

The funds from the round along with Sky Mavis and Axie Infinity funds will be used to refund users.

axie infinity