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

London-Based Open Banking Startup TrueLayer Raises $130M Led by Tiger Global, Stripe

The fundraise sees TrueLayer’s valuation surpass $1 billion, thus giving it “unicorn” status.

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Tech

Vee Finance Hit for $35M in Second Major Exploit on Avalanche

The platform was attacked for a total of 8804.7 ETH (around $26 million) and 213.93 BTC (around $9 million).

(Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

Policy

UK Parliament’s House of Lords Launches CBDC Inquiry

The deadline for responses on a possible U.K. central bank digital currency is mid-October.

U.K. Houses of Parliament (TTStudio/Shutterstock)

Finance

Bitcoin Sidechain–Based STO Approved by German Regulator

This marks BaFin’s first approval of a security token offering issued on the Liquid Network.

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Finance

Solana-Based Music Marketplace Launches With Aspirations to Tokenize Royalties

Solo Music follows 3LAU’s Royal platform as music-industry crypto experimentation continues.

(OSABEE/Shutterstock)

Policy

China Stepping Up Campaign Against Hidden Crypto Miners: Report

Inspections are being carried out across several Chinese provinces in colleges and research institutions.

BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

Finance

Decentraland Invests in Decentral Games to Support Metaverse Poker

The money will help fund the rollout of ICE Poker, a new virtual game.

(Keenan Constance via Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto App Abra Raises $55M to Develop High-Net-Worth, Institutional Offerings

The Series C was led by previous backers Ignia and Blockchain Capital, with Kingsway Capital and Tiga Investments listed among new investors.

Abra CEO Bill Barhydt (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Greenidge to Buy 10,000 Miners for Planned South Carolina Facility

The upstate New York-based mining firm announced Wednesday its purchase order for 10,000 S19j Pro bitcoin miners from Bitmain.

(Clint Patterson via Unsplash)

Finance

Jump Capital Raises $350M Venture Fund With ‘Increased Concentration’ on Crypto

The firm’s seventh venture fund is 75% larger than the preceding one from October 2019.

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