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

Switzerland’s Sygnum Bank Gets Into DeFi

Custody and trading services for DeFi tokens is the first step, to be followed by a suite of yield-generating products.

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Tech

Stake Technologies Raises $10M Ahead of Polkadot and Kusama Auctions

With auctions to win a place building on the Polkadot blockchain ecosystem beginning soon, projects are coming out with strategies to secure one of the coveted slots.

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Finance

State Street Bank Launches Cryptocurrency Division

State Street says it plans to evolve into a “multi-asset platform” to support cryptocurrency trading and more.

State Street CEO Ron O'Hanley

Finance

Solana-Based Oxygen Taps Jump Trading in Bid to Be DeFi’s Top ‘Prime Brokerage’

Oxygen will enter its beta stage in the next two to three months, co-founder Alex Grebnev said.

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Finance

SEC’s Peirce Warns Against Stifling Crypto Innovation

“You can have pretty effective self-regulation,” Peirce said in an interview with the Financial Times.

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Finance

Blockchain Staking Firm Blockdaemon Raises $28M in Series A Funding

The round was led by Greenspring Associates and included Goldman Sachs.

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Tech

Polkadot’s Kusama Network to Start Parachain Auctions Next Week

The start date was heralded by the upgrade to Kusama’s Statemine parachain, Polkadot founder Gavin Wood said Tuesday.

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Finance

Amazon Looks to Hire Blockchain Staffers With Experience of DeFi

“Experience in Decentralized Finance a plus,” the ad says.

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Finance

CoinShares Issues Three Crypto ETNs on Deutsche Boerse

The three CoinShares ETNs are tracking bitcoin, ethereum and litecoin.

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Finance

Remember JPM Coin? Next Step Is Programmable Money, Bank Exec Says

The global bank is also “keeping a very close eye” on DeFi, says Umar Farooq, head of JPMorgan’s Onyx blockchain team.

Umar Farooq, JPMorgan's blockchain chief