Ian Allison

Senior Reporter

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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Tecnología

Polkadot Weighs Multichain Tech Challenges Ahead of DOT 'Parachain' Auctions

Polkadot’s interconnected web of blockchains will require “a totally different application programming paradigm,” said Web3 Foundation tech lead Joe Petrowski.

24 may 2021

Finanzas

Solidus Labs Raises $20M From VCs, Ex-Regulators to Fight Crypto Market Manipulation

Solidus won angel support from former U.S. regulators Chris Giancarlo, Troy Paredes and Daniel Gorfine.

24 may 2021

Solidus Labs CTO Praveen Kumar (left), COO Chen Arad (top) and CEO Asaf Meir (right).

Finanzas

Institutional Crypto Exchange LMAX Digital Hit Record $6.6B Volume on Bitcoin’s ‘Black Wednesday’

LMAX Digital says many institutional clients saw last week's crypto crash as "an opportunity to buy."

24 may 2021

Finanzas

Crypto Hedge Funds Show Growing Appetite for DeFi: PwC

Crypto hedge funds had $3.8 billion in assets under management in 2020. Chainlink, Polkadot and Aave tokens proved to be popular.

24 may 2021

Finanzas

Uphold Exec Accused of ‘Fraudulently Misdirecting’ $700K in Funds

Uphold's former chief compliance officer allegedly misdirected corporate and user funds. He denies the claim, though a private investigator says there may be more.

21 may 2021

The offices of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in London. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finanzas

Coinbase in Talks to Buy Asset Manager Osprey Funds: Sources

The talks are at a high level and informal at this stage, said one of the sources.

20 may 2021

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaks at Consensus 2019.

Finanzas

Crypto Custodian Copper Raises $50M in Series B Round

The digital asset custodian says revenue and client growth tripled in the last quarter.

18 may 2021

Finanzas

Cryptocurrency Custodian Anchorage Adds Five More DeFi Tokens

In a further sign of "institutional DeFi" momentum, the regulated custodian is adding 1INCH, BNT, CRV, REN and SUSHI.

14 may 2021

Anchorage co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley. (CoinDesk)

Finanzas

Hedge Fund Giants Millennium, Matrix and Point72 Standing Up DeFi Funds: Sources

DeFi is booming and institutions are edging towards it, trying to figure out how to get a slice of the alpha.

13 may 2021

Israel "Izzy" Englander, chairman and chief executive officer of Millennium Management (left) and Steven A. Cohen, chairman and chief executive officer of Point72

Finanzas

Elliptic Is Mapping Bitcoin Stolen From 2016 Bitfinex Hack

New research from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic asks whether zkSNACKs, the firm behind bitcoin privacy wallet Wasabi, is turning a blind eye to stolen coins.

13 may 2021

A number of firms track asset flows on the Bitcoin blockchain.