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

Digital Asset Will Start Global Blockchain Network With Deloitte, Goldman Sachs and Others

Other participants of the network include BNP Paribas, Cboe Global Markets and Microsoft.

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Finance

P2P Bitcoin Exchange Paxful Back Online After Temporary Suspension

The platform shut down in April after the CEO expressed concerns about the safety of customer funds owing to a lawsuit from its co-founder.

Foto de los cofundadores sin fecha. (Paxful)

Finance

Coinbase Jumps 17% Post-Earnings; Analysts Praise Results but Worry About Regulatory Uncertainty

The crypto exchange’s first quarter revenue of $773 million was up 23% from the previous three months and blew past estimates for just $655 million.

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Finance

Coinbase Shares Rise as Q1 Revenue Grows 23% to $773M From Q4

The crypto exchange reported results after the close on Thursday.

Coinbase's Base blockchain has gone live (Chesnot/Getty Images)

Finance

Coinbase Losses Expected to Narrow; Analysts Seek Details About International Exchange

Coinbase will report its first-quarter earnings results after the market closes on Thursday.

Coinbase (COIN) reports fourth quarter earnings on Thursday and is expected to post strong numbers as trading volume picked up in the last few months of the year. (Piggybank/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Trading Platform Enclave Starts Fully Encrypted Spot Exchange

The new platform is secured by independent attestors, including Blockdaemon, Ava Labs, Republic Crypto and Enclave.

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Finance

PayPal to Enable On-Chain Transfers From Venmo Accounts, Including to On-Chain Wallets

The feature will become available in May, PayPal's Jose Fernandez da Ponte said during a panel at Consensus 2023.

PayPal's crypto lead Jose Fernandez da Ponte says PayPal's new stablecoin, PYUSD, is "an extension of the PayPal balance." Does that include PayPal's interest revenue? (CoinDesk/Helene Braun)

Finance

WisdomTree CEO Says Crypto Is 'Natural Evolution' of ETF Products

CEO Jonathan Steinberg discussed his company’s soon-to-launch crypto wallet for trading tokenized real world assets such as gold. Blockchain brings democratization to traditional finance, he tells CoinDesk Editor-in-Chief Kevin Reynolds.

WisdomTree CEO Jonathan Steinberg (left)(Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Coinbase Receives License to Operate in Bermuda

In March, the company was reported to be exploring options to launch an offshore platform.

Coinbase's Base blockchain has gone live (Chesnot/Getty Images)

Finance

Metropolitan Commercial Bank Is Almost Done Exiting Crypto Business

The New York-based bank has only $278.5 million in crypto-related deposits left, according to a filing.

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