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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Blockchain Privacy Firm HOPR Releases Mixnet Hardware Node for Ethereum

HOPR Hardware Nodes validate transactions on the Ethereum blockchain – without any reliance on cloud servers controlled by Amazon and Alibaba.

The HOPR Hardware Node (HOPR)

Политика

Where FATF Crypto Compliance Gets Interesting: Africa

Crypto businesses seeing strong growth across the 54-country continent are working hard to meet the FATF's anti-money laundering standards.

Tanzania (Hu Chen/Unsplash)

Финансы

Audius Rallies EDM Artists, Crypto VCs to Back Vision for Music Payments on Ethereum

Audius, a streaming service built on Ethereum, has raised $3.1 million from Multicoin Capital, Blockchange Ventures, Pantera Capital and Coinbase Ventures.

(Krys Amon/Unsplash)

Финансы

Circle Gets $25M From DCG to Drive USDC Mainstream

USDC backer Circle is teaming with Genesis Trading in a $25 million deal aimed at pushing the stablecoin to the fintech masses.

Circle founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire

Финансы

Carbon Credits Have a Double-Spend Problem. This Microsoft-Backed Project Is Trying to Fix It

The Microsoft-backed IWA sustainability group is building a tokenization standard that aims to bring transparency to carbon accounting.

(Nicolai Dürbaum/Unsplash)

Финансы

How the EEA Made Ethereum Palatable to Big Business

Formed in 2017, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance helped large corporates and tech providers experiment with blockchain.

ConsenSys staffer and EEA board member Jeremy Millar speaks in 2018. (Ian Allison/CoinDesk archives)

Рынки

Memories of London’s Devcon 1, Ethereum’s ‘Woodstock’ Moment

Ethereum’s Devcon 1, held in London in November 2015, featured adventuresome bankers and Big 4 consultants mingling with dreadlocked coders.

Christian Lundkvist and Vitalik Buterin (right) speak at Devcon 1. (Ethereum Foundation/YouTube)

Финансы

Bitstamp Backs BCB’s SWIFT Alternative for Instant Cash-Crypto Settlements

BCB Group is launching an instant settlement network for cash and crypto.

OKCoin Lightning Network

Политика

Banks Won't Rush to Hold Crypto – But OCC's Regulatory Approval Makes It Harder to Ignore

Regulatory approval doesn't mean banks are about to begin providing crypto custody, but it is accelerating a conversation about financial institutions safeguarding bitcoin.

OCC

Финансы

How One Firm Is Addressing the Interoperability Problem Posed by FATF's 'Travel Rule'

Crypto companies building solutions to the FATF "Travel Rule" may be creating a new interoperability problem. Netki is offering a fix.

(Kumiko SHIMIZU/Unsplash)