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.

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Policy

Dubai Government-Owned Bank Emirates NBD Offers Crypto Trading Through Liv X App

Liv is offering its crypto service using infrastructure operated by Aquanow, a digital asset platform licensed by Dubai's VARA

16:9 Dubai UAE (Pexels, Pixabay)

Finance

Early Solana Backer Foundation Capital Raises $600M for Eleventh Flagship Fund

The fund is 20% larger than its predecessor $500 million fund, which closed around three years ago

Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Finance

Sygnum Bank Expands Custody to Include Leading Crypto Options Exchange Deribit

Sygnum and Deribit are now leveraging crypto custodian Fireblocks' "Off Exchange" service

Deribit CEO Luuk Strijers (Extreme right) at Consensus Hong Kong (CoinDesk)

Policy

Bank of Israel Unveils Possible Design of 'Multipurpose' Digital Shekel

The central bank stressed that no decision has been made whether to issue a CBDC, therefore the design presented should only be considered a preliminary one

16:9 Shekels (Ri_Ya/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Custodian Taurus Expands Footprint to Turkey Through BankPozitif Collaboration

Turkey's economic woes have buoyed crypto adoption in recent years as users have turned to cryptocurrency as a lifeline against double-digit inflation

From left to right: Lamine Brahimi, Co-Founder and Managing Partner; Dr. Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Co-Founder and CSO; Oren-Olivier Puder, Co-Founder and Chairman; Sébastien Dessimoz,  Co-Founder and Managing Partner (Taurus)

Tech

Layer-2 BOB's 'Bitcoin DeFi' Continues Progress With Fireblocks Integration

Fireblocks users can now earn yield on their BTC holdings via BOB's network

bob

Finance

Coinbase, NEAR, Others Form Alliance to Develop Open AI Services

The Open Agents Alliance (OAA) consists of NEAR AI, the payments and AI arms of crypto exchange Coinbase and an array of other blockchain and AI projects.

Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol (Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Policy

FBI Seeks Crypto Industry Help to Track, Block Laundering of Bybit Hack Funds

The FBI reiterated North Korean involvement, and identified the activity as TraderTraitor.

FBI symbol on side of a building.

Finance

Ondo Finance to Bring RWAs to Mastercard Network

Mastercard's MTN incorporates API-enabled blockchain tools to allow banks to streamline domestic and cross-border transactions

Mastercard (CoinDesk)

Markets

ARK Invest Swaps Nearly $9M of Its Own Bitcoin ETF for Coinbase

The rout in the cryptocurrency market on Tuesday brought about record outflows from spot bitcoin ETFs in the U.S

Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest, at Consensus 2024 by CoinDesk (Suzanne Cordiero)