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

Crypto Exchange Backpack Appoints Stripe, Banking Veteran as CFO

Backpack was founded by Armani Ferrante and Tristan Yver, alums of defunct trading company Alameda Research and bankrupt crypto exchange FTX respectively

Backpack CFO Oliver  Sleafer (Backpack)

Finance

Web 3 Startup Tensorplex Labs Raises $3M Seed Funding to Decentralize AI

Tensorplex said decentralization can help prevent tech giants monopolizing artificial intelligence, making them prone to biases or censorship.

two fingers adding a coin to one pile of coins among many

Policy

North Korean Crypto Hackers Have Stolen $3B Since 2017, Says UN Security Council: Report

A UN Security Council panel is investigating 17 crypto heists in 2023, for which North Korea may have been responsible, which were valued at more than $750 million

North Korea (Micha Brändli/Unsplash)

Policy

Guilty Verdict for Woman Accused of Laundering Bitcoin Tied to Alleged $6B China Fraud: Bloomberg

Police in the U.K. seized over 1.7 billion pounds ($2.2 billion) worth of related bitcoin in 2018.

Police, crime (geralt/Pixabay)

Tech

Bitcoin's Halving May Be Here Sooner Than You Know (Again)

Several months ago, the halving was expected to take place on April 28; now it's on track to land on April 19 or 20th, depending on time zone. Blame the surge in bitcoin's price, which has attracted more mining power and sped up the network.

Countdown (anncapictures/Pixabay)

Finance

Lithuania-Licensed Crypto Bank Meld to Offer Tokenized RWAs to Retail Investors

Meld, which is in partnership with the layer-1 blockchain of the same name, has an agreement with DeFi platform Swarm Markets, which started a real-world asset platform in December

Vilnius, Lithuania (Shutterstock)

Web3

Immutable, King River Capital, Polygon Labs Set Up $100M Web3 Gaming Fund

Immutable and Polygon Labs will identify investment opportunities while King River will manage the investment process and deploy the capital across game studios and web3 infrastructure firms.

(Jose Gil/Unsplash)

Markets

Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy Acquired Another 9,245 BTC for $623M

The company now holds approximately 214,246 bitcoins, which is more than 1% of all the 21 million of the tokens that will ever exist

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of MicroStrategy (Michael.com)

Markets

Galaxy Digital to Introduce Exchange-Traded Products in Europe in 'Matter of Weeks'

Galaxy Digital teamed up with asset manager DWS last April to develop ETPs designed to give Europeans access to digital-asset investment through traditional brokerage accounts.

16:9 Europe (652234/Pixabay)

Markets

Grayscale CEO Believes Bitcoin ETF Fees Will Drop Over Time: CNBC

GBTC has seen $12 billion in outflows since due in part to its high fees compared to its competitors

Grayscale ad in NYC (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)