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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Технології

Filecoin Might Have a Way for Bitcoin to Fight Its Energy Critics (if Miners Use It)

Did Filecoin just launch a tool to end the never-ending debate over bitcoin’s carbon footprint?

Power plant

Технології

Hologram NFTs at Art Basel Miami Are Trying to Save the Oceans

Can NFTs be a vehicle for environmental action?

A female surfer walks down a beach in Mal Pais, Costa Rica. (Gabe LHeureux/Getty Images)

Фінанси

A National Stock Exchange That Supports NFTs? Welcome to Switzerland

Never mind security tokens, the newly licensed SIX Digital Exchange is in discussions with NFT funds and central banks. SDX’s chairman discusses the trading venue’s uniquely Swiss ambitions.

(Michele Limina/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Celsius CFO Arrested on Charges Tied to Former Job at Moshe Hogeg’s Firm

Yaron Shalem, the CFO of crypto lender Celsius, previously worked at Singulariteam, whose founder, Hogeg, was arrested last week on money laundering and other charges.

(National Gallery of Art, modified by CoinDesk)

Фінанси

Jutta Steiner Leaves Polkadot Builder Parity Technologies

The CEO stepped away earlier this year after running the company since 2015, a Parity representative confirmed.

Jutta Steiner (center) (Parity Technologies)

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Soccer Star Andrés Iniesta Warned by Spanish Regulator After Promoting Binance

“I’m learning how to get started with crypto with @binance,” Iniesta told his 25 million Twitter followers.

Kobe, Japan (isseymatnoh/Pixabay)

Фінанси

JPMorgan Hiring Software Engineers for ‘Collateral Blockchain Tokenization’

The intriguing vacancy doesn’t go into much detail, however.

JPMorgan analysts are trying to figure out what's driving bitcoin. (Getty Images)

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Blockade Games Raises $5M Round at $23M Valuation From Animoca Brands, Others

The round was led by metaverse and NFT stalwart Animoca Brands.

"Neon District" demon art (Marguerite deCourcelle/Blockade Games)

Фінанси

Bank of England Governor Touts CBDCs Over Stablecoins: Report

BoE chief Andrew Bailey said the bank wouldn’t be moving into the retail bank account business through a CBDC.

Bank of England Chief Andrew Bailey

Фінанси

Citi Plans to Hire 100 Staffers for Beefed-Up Crypto Division

The bank has also named Puneet Singhvi as head of digital assets for its institutional clients group starting Dec. 1.

Citi, Citigroup, Citibank