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

Smart Contract Platform Llama Raises $6M From Investors Including Polygon, Aave Founders

The firm aims to allow blockchain governance protocols to encode role-based functionality.

Llama co-founders Austin Green and Shreyas Hariharan (Llama)

Finance

MicroStrategy Acquired an Additional 155 Bitcoin Since End of Q3

The company booked an impairment loss of $33.6 million on its digital asset holdings in the thrid quarter.

MicroStrategy Executive Director Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Finance

Swiss National Bank to Work With SIX Digital Exchange, 6 Banks on Wholesale CBDC Pilot

The Helvetia Phase III pilot will create a tokenized version of the franc as a settlement instrument between financial institutions for digital assets on the exchange.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Animoca Brands Courts $50M Investment From Saudi Arabia's NEOM

Animoca will build Web3 service capabilities with global commercial application alongside NEOM to support its aspirations as a futuristic tech hub.

Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Ticks Along Above $34K

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Oct. 30, 2023.

(CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance Founder CZ's Wealth Falls About $12B as Trading Revenue Slumps: Bloomberg

Changpeng Zhao's wealth dropped to $17.2 billion as trading revenue declined.

CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

Policy

Standard Chartered-Backed Zodia Markets Gains Registration in Ireland

Ireland is emerging as an attractive destination for crypto firms; Coinbase designated the country as its EU hub earlier this month.

Headshot of Zodia Markets CEO Usman Ahmad

Finance

JPMorgan Handles $1B Transactions Daily In Digital Token JPM Coin: Bloomberg

JPMorgan has plans to widen the coin's usage the bank's head of payments Takis Georgakopoulos said in an interview

JPMorgan building (Shutterstock)

Tech

Crypto Wallet Maker Ledger Officially Rolls Out 'Recover,' Unleashing Fresh Round of Snark

Recover involves users' private keys being encrypted, duplicated and divided into three pieces held with three different parties – which has spurred controversy.

Ledger Wallet (Amjith S/Unsplash)

Markets

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Sells 2% of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Holdings as BTC Rallies

The fund also sold about $3.3 million worth of Coinbase shares (COIN) and bought $2.4 million shares of Robinhood (HOOD).

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)