Helene Braun

Helene is a New York-based news reporter at CoinDesk, covering news about Wall Street, the rise of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and updates on crypto exchanges. She is also the co-host of CoinDesk's Markets Daily show on Spotify and Youtube. Helene is a recent graduate of New York University's business and economic reporting program and has appeared on CBS News, YahooFinance and Nasdaq TradeTalks. She holds BTC and ETH.

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Finance

Coinbase Revenue May Be Hurt by Lower Trading Volumes, Regulatory Uncertainty, Analysts Say

The crypto exchange may also see lower staking revenue when it reports its Q3 earnings as ether underperformed in the quarter.

Coinbase (PiggyBank/Unsplash)

Finance

Consensys Cuts 20% Workforce, Blames SEC’s ‘Abuse Of Power’

The main supporter of the Ethereum network has been in an ongoing battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission who most recently alleged the company of operating as an unregistered broker.

Joe Lubin, founder and CEO of Consensys, discusses Ethereum's political prospects. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk/Suzanne Cordiero)

Finance

Emory University Joins Bitcoin ETF Rush, Reporting $16M Holding in Grayscale Vehicle

The endowment also reported a modest holding in crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN).

Main quadrangle on Emory University's Druid Hills campus (Wikipedia)

Finance

Microsoft Urges Shareholders to Vote Against a Proposal to Assess Bitcoin as a Diversification Investment: Filing

The proposal from the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, argues that bitcoin is an “excellent, if not the best, hedge against inflation.”

Microsoft Offices, Mountain View, Ca. (Getty/David Pu'u)

Markets

Bitcoin ETFs Will Soon Hold 1M Tokens, Nearly as Much as Satoshi

The U.S.-based spot funds currently hold about 396,922 bitcoin altogether, with BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust soon to cross 400,000 in BTC holdings.

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs could soon hold more bitcoin than the founder of the token, Satoshi Nakamoto. (Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto ETFs Look Unlikely to Expand Beyond Bitcoin, Ether Under Kamala Harris, Experts Say

Several prospective issuers have filed to launch exchange-traded funds tracking smaller coins like Ripple's XRP or Solana (SOL), but the trajectory of those applications may lie with American voters.

More crypto ETFs, including current applications for an XRP or solana ETF, might not ever be approved if Kamala Harris beats Donald Trump in the presidential election, two ETF experts said. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Markets

MicroStrategy's 'Nav Premium' Shouldn't be Feared, Says Benchmark, Raising Price Target to $245

The company's use of "intelligent leverage" differentiates its stock from other means of gaining exposure to bitcoin, argued analyst Mark Palmer.

Michael Saylor at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee

News Analysis

History Suggests Crypto’s Bullish Momentum Should Continue Into the U.S. Election and Afterwards

Bitcoin could move 10% in either direction on the outcome of the U.S. election, according to one analysis.

Bitcoin bulls are out ((Unsplah/Peter Lloyd)

Finance

Grayscale Looks to Turn Multi-Token Fund Into ETF

The fund tracks the CoinDesk Large Cap Select Index which measures the market cap-weighted performance of bitcoin, ether, solana, XRP, and avalanche.

Grayscale ad (Grayscale)

Finance

Is Elon Musk Selling Bitcoin? Tesla Transfers All $760M of Its BTC to Unknown Wallets.

On-chain data shows wallets associated with Elon Musk's electric car company have been emptied.

Is Elon Musk's Tesla selling bitcoin? (Chesnot/Getty Images)