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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Policy

U.S. Crypto Lobbying on Course for Record Spend This Year

Crypto companies spent almost $19 million on lobbying by the end of the third quarter compared with $16 million in the same period last year.

Washington DC (Wenhan Cheng/Pixabay)

Web3

Web3 Attribution Platform Spindl Teams Up With AppsFlyer to Improve Blockchain Gaming Analytics

The two firms will be integrating their data sets to allow developers to map their user journeys which span Web2 events - like clicks and app installs - and Web3 events like NFT mints

Web3 Gaming (Chanzj/Pixabay)

Finance

Investment Giant Franklin Templeton’s CEO Holds Bitcoin, Ether and Other Tokens in Her Portfolio: Report

Jenny Johnson added she believes a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) will be a better way of gaining BTC exposure as opposed to direct investment.

Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson (Franklin Templeton)

Policy

Soccer Star Cristiano Ronaldo Faces $1B Class Action Suit Over Binance Endorsement

The suit alleges that Ronaldo "promoted, assisted in, and/or actively participated in the offer and sale of unregistered securities in coordination with Binance."

Cristiano Ronaldo, now playing with Al Nassr FC, on Nov. 27 at King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Khalid Alhaj/MB Media/Getty Images)

Finance

KuCoin Ventures to Provide $20K Grant to TON Ecosystem

The funding will be allocated to five "mini-apps" focusing on payments and gaming.

16:9 KuCoin (Shutterstock)

Policy

Terraform Labs, Do Kwon Fail to Have Singapore Class-Action Suit Rejected: Report

The suit was filed in September 2022 by Julian Moreno Beltran and Douglas Gan on behalf of 375 others, who claim they lost a combined $57 million.

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon (Terra)

Finance

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Offloads a Further $4.7M Worth of Coinbase Shares

COIN reached its highest level since April 2022 on Monday and remains at 19-month highs.

(Alpha Photo/Flickr)

Finance

Bitcoin Going From Boiling the Oceans to Draining Them, According to Critic

A data scientist for the Dutch National Bank, Alex De Vries, claims every bitcoin transaction uses enough water to fill a swimming pool.

Swimming pool water (Aquilatin/Pixabay)

Markets

MicroStrategy Bought $600M of BTC in November, Increased Holdings by 10%

MicroStrategy is also looking to raise up to $750 million in a sale of class A common stock.

Michael Saylor (Anna Baydakova/CoinDesk)

Finance

Decentralized Infrastructure Provider Grove Raises $7.9M

Decentralized infrastructure is the use of blockchain technology and token incentives to build physical networks so other projects do not need to incur the costs of buying and running their own equipment.

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