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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Finance

Genesis Faces ‘Hundreds of Millions’ in Losses as 3AC Exposure Swamps Crypto Lenders: Sources

The DCG-owned trading colossus is said to have suffered nine-figure losses partly through exposure to Three Arrows Capital and Babel Finance.

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

Tech

Meet ‘Frequency,’ Polkadot’s New Decentralized Social Media Parachain

The team behind Project Liberty’s Decentralized Social Network Protocol unveiled the newly named parachain at Polkadot Decoded.

(Jan Huber/Unsplash)

Tech

Polkadot Chief Gavin Wood Announces Blockchain Governance Upgrade

The platform's “Gov2” is set to launch on Kusama “imminently,” following a final professional audit of its code, he said.

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood (Parity Technologies)

Finance

Alan Howard-Backed Cryptography Investor Geometry Emerges From Stealth

Tom Walton-Pocock, the former CEO of zero-knowledge proofs shop Aztec, is heading up Geometry.

keys, cryptography

Finance

Coinbase Adds Support for On-Chain Polygon and Solana Transactions

“Over time, we’ll add support for more tokens and more networks,” Coinbase said.

A look at the new Coinbase Wallet (Coinbase)

Finance

Citibank Chooses Swiss Firm Metaco for Digital Asset Custody

The custody platform integration is with Securities Services and will focus on tokenized securities to begin with.

Citibank (TungCheung/Shutterstock)

Finance

DeFi Moves Into Real Estate With Tower Fund and Teller Protocol Partnership

The timing for fully transparent DeFi opportunities couldn’t be better, according to Teller CEO Ryan Berkun.

Teller Protocol hopes to bring DeFi to commercial real estate projects such as multifamily buildings. (Dan Reynolds Photography/Getty Images)

Finance

Lido Finance Warns Leverage Is a ‘Hell of a Drug’

After integrating with DeFi major Aave, Lido saw leverage kick up a gear and nudged some larger players to unwind. But plenty of people didn’t.

leverage (Shutterstock)

Finance

JPMorgan Wants to Bring Trillions of Dollars of Tokenized Assets to DeFi

The bank’s recent tokenization of money market funds with BlackRock dovetails with an institutional DeFi project led by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

JPMorgan has ambitious plans for institutional DeFi. (Getty Images)

Finance

Tesla Board Member Kimbal Musk Says Most DAOs Are Not Actually Decentralized

“Frankly, I think most DAOs are designed to allow the founders to maintain control,” said the founder of food justice charity Big Green DAO.

Kimbal Musk, Co-Founder & CEO, Big Green, questioned DAOs at Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas. (Christian Barrett/CoinDesk)