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.

Dernières de Ian Allison

Finance

Binance-Backed Privacy Mavens Release Tokenomic Lynchpin: 'Proof-of-Relay'

Rewards gathered on the testnet will be made available when HOPR tokens launch on the live mainnet later this year.

20 oct. 2020

HOPR's founding team: Robert Kiel, Sebastian Bürgel and Rik Krieger.

Finance

R3 Corda Network Set to Go DeFi With XDC Digital Currency

A group of former bankers building on R3’s public Corda Network is touting the first digital currency for that ecosystem, dubbed XDC.

20 oct. 2020

Corda Network is the public offshoot of R3's enterprise blockchain efforts.

Finance

Block.one Debuts Big-Business Version of EOSIO Blockchain

Block.one has released “EOSIO for Business,” an enterprise-focused version of its software.

15 oct. 2020

Finance

Breitling Goes Live With Ethereum-Based System to Put All New Watches on the Blockchain

Breitling is the first luxury watchmaker to offer an Ethereum-based digital passport for all its new timepieces.

15 oct. 2020

Marchés

Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Calls on Power Users to Move to Layer 2 Scaling

Talking at CoinDesk's invest: ethereum economy event, the Ethereum founder called for users of the second-largest blockchain to move over to scaling solutions that are “already here."

14 oct. 2020

Finance

Securitize Is Taking Ethereum-Based Securities Into the DeFi Realm

Securitize is teaming with a protocol called Tinlake from Centrifuge, which uses a clever system of NFTs to put real-world assets into DeFi.

12 oct. 2020

Finance

Revamped Crypto Derivatives Exchange Qume Set to Fly in Wake of BitMEX Woes

The timing couldn’t be better for regulation-focused trading platform Qume, which unveils a revamped set of services Monday.

12 oct. 2020

Finance

Binance UK Director Departing After Less Than 6 Months

Binance’s director of growth and institutional business will take on responsibility for the U.K. arm following the departure of Teana Baker-Taylor.

9 oct. 2020

Finance

Group Backed by ING Bank, Fidelity and Standard Chartered Releases Crypto AML Tools

The Travel Rule Protocol working group has published the first version of its TRP API.

8 oct. 2020

A Standard Chartered branch in Hong Kong's business district.

Juridique

Inside the Estonian CBDC Experiment That Could Shape the Digital Euro

How the firm helping lead Estonia's central bank digital currency research is approaching a mass-market crypto coin.

7 oct. 2020