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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Policy

Ghana at 'Advanced Stages' With Digital Cedi, Central Bank Governor Says

Bank of Ghana Gov. Ernest Addison also warned against “unregulated” cryptocurrencies.

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Tech

IOTA Takes a Step Closer to Decentralization With 2.0 DevNet

The IoT-focused network is gradually looking to remove its central Coordinator role.

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Finance

DeFi Risk Assessor Sherlock Raises $1.5M in Pre-Seed Funding

The fundraising was led by IDEO CoLab Ventures, with participation from A.Capital Ventures, Scalar Capital and DeFi Alliance.

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Finance

Canaan Forecasts Second-Quarter Revenue as High as $250M

The mining equipment maker said total shipments for the second quarter would either maintain or surpass Q1 2021.

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Finance

Overstock’s tZERO Is Looking for a Buyer

The company is exploring a number of options, including a SPAC merger, said tZERO VP of Investor Relations Michael Mougias.

An Overstock.com Fulfillment Center Ahead Of Wholesale Inventories

Policy

Compliance Exec: Crypto Too Slow to Adopt Anti-Laundering Rules Ahead of FATF Review

Compounding matters, “each country is kind of doing its own thing, which makes compliance actually very difficult for us,” says Malcolm Wright.

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Finance

Binance Smart Chain Adds CipherTrace for Tracking Illicit Transactions

The move could open the door to more FATF-friendly DeFi in the BSC ecosystem.

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Finance

What ING Bank Might Steal From DeFi

ING blockchain lead Mariana Gomez de la Villa said Ethereum’s composability could inform the next generation of banking services.

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Markets

Mastercard Exec Shares Thoughts on Crypto Rewards, Stablecoin and CBDC Plans

Jessica Turner, the storied payment network’s fintech executive, reflects on mainstream crypto adoption at Consensus 2021.

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Markets

China’s BSN Builder Urges Developers to Look Beyond Cryptocurrency

Red Date Technologies CEO Yifan He was showing off the BSN stack in public for the first time.

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