Jamie Crawley

Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.

Jamie Crawley

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Finance

BNB Smart Chain to Perform Hard Fork as Fix for $100M Exploit

The "temporary urgent patch" release will take occur at around 08:00 UTC on Oct. 12.

The Cardano hard fork is expected on Sept. 22. (Yuri_Arcurs/E+/Getty Images)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Greenidge Expects Q3 Losses of $20M-$22M Amid CEO Departure

CEO Jeffrey Kirt resigned from his position effective Oct. 7.

Crypto mining rigs (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

Citigroup Director of Blockchain and Digital Assets to Leave for Six Digital Exchange

Alexandre Kech's departure follows the exit of another key digital-assets employee from Citi in August.

(TungCheung/Shutterstock)

Finance

UK Investment Giant Abrdn Joins Hedera Governing Council to Advance Tokenization Goals

The Edinburgh, Scotland-based company becomes the 27th member of the council that runs the Hedera blockchain-like public ledger.

Edinburgh, Scotland (Shutterstock)

Markets

Dogecoin Loses Momentum From Musk Twitter Acquisition News

Elon Musk's favorite memecoin settled down after rising on news that the Tesla CEO's purchase of Twitter was back on the table.

Dogecoin perdió el impulso que había ganado previamente. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Investment Manager Hamilton Lane to Tokenize 3 Funds Through Securitize

The move will make private market investments available to more people.

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo (Securitize)

Finance

Middle East/North Africa Was Fastest-Growing Crypto Market Over Past 12 Months: Chainalysis

MENA-based users received $566 billion in cryptocurrency from July 2021 to June 2022

Crypto usage has surged in the Middle East and Africa. (Arek Socha/Pixabay)

Finance

SWIFT Says It's Proved It Can Be the Way Forward for Global CBDCs

The financial messaging system said it has carried out transactions between different blockchain networks using both central bank digital currencies and fiat currencies.

(Swift)

Finance

Mastercard Looks to Make Buying Crypto Safer With Risk Assessment Tool

"Crypto Secure" will incorporate the insights and technology of CipherTrace to help card issuers assess the risk profile of crypto exchanges

(Alina Kuptsova/Pixabay)

Finance

Blockchain Game Developer Horizon Raises $40M in Series A Funding Round

The round was led by Brevan Howard Digital and Morgan Creek Digital, and included investments from traditional gaming companies Ubisoft and Take-Two Interactive.

The Skyweaver video game (Horizon Games)