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

Trezor Unveils New Hardware Wallets, Corrosion-Resistant 'Keep Metal' for Recovery

Trezor has produced a hardware wallet with a stripped-back design to appeal to less experienced crypto users, alongside two other new products.

Trezor Safe 3 wallet (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

Tech

Bitcoin Might Get Ethereum-Style Smart Contracts Under ‘BitVM’ Plan

A goal of Robin Linus's design for "BitVM" is to enable Turing-complete Bitcoin contracts – making the blockchain programmable, similar to a computer – without making the network more complicated for other users.

Robin Linus, a core contributor to ZeroSync and the author of the new "BitVM" paper. (Robin Linus)

Finance

Bitcoin Financial Services Firm Swan Unveils 'Collaborative Custody' Service

Swan and Blockstream's plan to allow users to retain ultimate control of their bitcoin while knowing that is stored in a highly secure way

a rank of safe deposit boxes

Policy

FTX Employees Knew About the Backdoor to Alameda Months Before Collapse: WSJ

The employees flagged their discovery to one of FTX's director of engineering Nishad Singh but the problem never got fixed.

(FTX, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Fundraising Hits 3-Year Low as Firms Struggle to Raise Capital: Messari

The amount raised by crypto firms in Q3 fell to just under $2.1 billion, across 297 deals, the lowest on both counts since Q4 2020

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

Web3

CMCC Global Raises $100M for Hong Kong-Based Blockchain Companies

The lead investor in the fund was B1, which committed $50 million, alongside Richard Li’s Pacific Century Group, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’ firm and Animoca Brands founder Yat Siu.

CMCC Global Managing Partners Shiau Sin Yen, Martin Baumann and Charlie Morris (CMCC Global)

Finance

Polygon Co-Founder Jaynti Kanani Steps Down

Kanani founded Polygon in 2017 alongside Sandeep Nailwal and Anurag Arjun.

The Polygon team

Finance

DeFi Project Yield Protocol to Wind Down by Year's End

At its peak in April 2022, the DeFi lending project had over $22 million in total value locked, but this figure has since dropped to around $2 million.

Store sign saying "Sorry we're closed"

Policy

Gemini to Cease Offering Crypto Services in Netherlands in November

The exchange said it is taking the step due to requirements imposed by the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB).

Credit: Shutterstock

Finance

Fireblocks Acquires Tokenization Firm BlockFold for $10M

The acquisition will expand Fireblocks' capabilities in tokenization including token customization, orchestration, distribution and advisory

Fireblocks sign at Miami airport during Bitcoin Miami conference 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)