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

Crypto Trading Firm Wintermute to Provide Liquidity for Hong Kong Bitcoin and Ether ETFs

The market maker will provide liquidity for OSL Digital Securities and Haskey HK Exchange, both of which are sub-custodians of platforms facilitating the operation of the bitcoin and ether ETFs in Hong Kong.

Evgeny Gaevoy, Wintermute CEO (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Two Big Bitcoin Catalysts Could Drive MicroStrategy Stock Gains, TD Cowen Says

MicroStrategy shares are up 89% year-to-date but TD Cowen analyst Lance Vitanza believes the software firm could end the year “meaningfully higher.”

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Finance

Jack Dorsey Leaves BlueSky Board, Touts 'Freedom Technology' of X and Nostr

The former Twitter CEO announced its backing of the social networking startup in December 2019 in an effort to decentralize social media.

Jack Dorsey speaks at Consensus 2018 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Stripe Brings Back Crypto Payments Via USDC Stablecoin

The payments firm stopped taking crypto payments in 2018 due to bitcoin’s high volatility.

Stripe co-founder and President John Collison said, "crypto is finding real utility," in a keynote on Thursday. (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)

Finance

Franklin Templeton Upgrades $380M Tokenized Treasury Fund to Enable Peer-to-Peer Transfers

The new feature helps to expand the utility of the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund's BENJI token and make it more interconnected with the digital asset ecosystem.

a hundred dollar bill

Finance

KPMG Survey Finds 39% of Canada’s Institutional Investors Had Exposure To Crypto Assets in 2023

Of those 39%, three quarters owned crypto currencies directly.

Canada's regulatory situation is both clear and more conservative than in the U.S. (Sebastiaan Stam/Unsplash)