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

Trezor Backtracks on ‘Travel Rule’ App for Self-Hosted Crypto Wallets Amid Uproar

SatoshiLabs, Trezor's creator, scratches its planned integration of the Address Ownership Proof Protocol (AOPP).

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Tech

Trezor Adopts Swiss Travel Rule Protocol for Private Crypto Wallets

The protocol automatically identifies an unhosted wallet when crypto is withdrawn from a Swiss exchange.

Trezor wallet (SatoshiLabs)

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Fireblocks Raises $550M at $8B Valuation

The Series E round was co-led by D1 Capital Partners and Spark Capital, and included Alphabet’s independent growth fund, CapitalG.

Fireblocks co-founders (left to right) Idan Ofrat, Michael Shaulov, Pavel Berengoltz (Fireblocks)

Finance

How Bitcoin Contributions Funded a $1.4M Solar Installation in Zimbabwe

The long-running Sun Exchange has a pitch for environmentally conscious bitcoiners.

Nhimbe Fresh's new solar panels. (Sun Exchange)

Finance

Winklevoss-Owned Gemini Galactic Snags FINRA Broker-Dealer Approval

The license could open up future opportunities around digital securities trading.

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Finance

Decentralized Data Sharing Network ‘Project Galaxy’ Raises $10M

Project Galaxy, which is live and in use, manages the largest credential data network in Web 3.

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Finance

Syndicate Launches Tool for Spinning Up DAOs With Legal Docs

The startup announced “Web3 Investment Clubs” with built-in compliance tools. Will this help DAOs go mainstream?

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Policy

The UK Lawmakers Who Want to Use Brexit to Rethink Crypto Rules

The U.K. has lost its fintech crown. Could a new approach to crypto regulation get it back?

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Finance

The Graph, the 'Google of Blockchains,' Raises $50M in Round Led by Tiger Global

The protocol indexes data across 26 blockchains.

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Tech

Agoric Raises $50M in CoinList Token Sale to Bring JavaScript Developers Into Crypto

Some 40,000 investors snatched up the BLD tokens in a mere two hours.

JavaScript (Joan Gamell/Unsplash)