Ian Allison

Ian Allison is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, focused on institutional and enterprise adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Prior to that, he covered fintech for the International Business Times in London and Newsweek online. He won the State Street Data and Innovation journalist of the year award in 2017, and was runner up the following year. He also earned CoinDesk an honourable mention in the 2020 SABEW Best in Business awards. His November 2022 FTX scoop, which brought down the exchange and its boss Sam Bankman-Fried, won a Polk award, Loeb award and New York Press Club award. Ian graduated from the University of Edinburgh. He holds ETH.

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Crypto Distress Prompts Fir Tree, a Hedge Fund, to Seek Profit From Turmoil

“Fir Tree is at its best when we identify opportunities that are mispriced, dislocated or complex. Rarely do we encounter situations that are all three, but that is precisely what we are seeing in digital assets right now,” Fir Tree said.

(Art Institute of Chicago/Unsplash)

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BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Application Takes Surveillance to the Next Level

An Information-Sharing Agreement, which appears to be absent from public spot Bitcoin ETF filings, compels a crypto exchange to share trading data up to and including personal information such as a customer’s name and address.

BlackRock HQ

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Distressed Crypto Specialist Thomas Braziel Sets Up Investment, Advisory Firm

The company, 117 Partners, will be a hybrid between advisory and investment, said Braziel.

117 Partners CEO Thomas Braziel (117 Partners)

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Three Arrows Capital Liquidator May Try to Claw Back About $1.2B From DCG, BlockFi

A July 7 report from Teneo, the hedge fund’s liquidator, described the potential claims.

Three Arrows (QuinceCreative/Pixabay)

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Ex-Genesis CEO Michael Moro to Head Crypto Derivatives Exchange Startup

Ankex, a non-custodial exchange with a centralized order book, is being spun out of crypto custody firm Qredo, which Moro joined in January.

Genesis Trading Michael Moro at the Crypto Bahamas event in April 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Mastercard Is Piloting Tokenized Bank Deposits in New UK Testbed

The company is launching what it calls a Multi-Token Network (MTN), which will begin by testing tokenized bank deposits and move onto experiments using stablecoins and CBDCs.

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Crypto Custody Firm Ledger Introduces Institutional-Grade Trading Network

The network has a range of partner firms, including Crypto.com, Bitstamp, Huobi, Wintermute and Komainu.

(Cleveland Trust Co/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Crypto Bankruptcy Investor Ouroboros Eyes Smaller Claims

The platform automates the due diligence process for buying cryptocurrency bankruptcy claims in firms like FTX or Celsius, providing previously missing liquidity for creditors owed around $50,000.

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Northstake Raises $3M to Boost Institutional Crypto Staking

The 2.8 million-euro fundraise comes from PreSeed Ventures, Morph Capital, The Aventures Fund, Funfair Ventures and Delta Blockchain Fund.

Photo of Northstake CEO Jesper Johansen

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Mastercard Focuses Its ‘Engage’ Program on Crypto

The expanded network helps bring new crypto card programs to market and creates crypto-to-fiat conversion capabilities, Mastercard said.

Raj Dhamodharan, Head of Crypto and Blockchain, Mastercard (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)