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

Binance Sees Another High-Profile Departure as Former Head of UK Moves On

Jonathan Farnell, who served as head of Binance U.K. and CEO of its payment service Bifinity – which was disbanded in August – left the firm in September.

Binance Logo (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

PetroChina Completes First International Crude Oil Trade in Digital Yuan: Report

PetroChina bought 1 million barrels of crude oil settled in e-CNY at the Shanghai Petroleum and Natural Gas Exchange

Yuan

Finance

Web3 Security Firm Blockaid Raises $27M to Help Tackle Industry's 'Never-Ending' Challenges

Blockaid claims to have scanned 450 million transactions, thwarted 1.2 million malicious transactions and safeguarded $500 million in user funds in the last three months .

CEO Ido Ben-Natan and CTO Raz Niv

Markets

MultiversX's EGLD Token Rallies on Partnership With Google Cloud

EGLD ticked up nearly 10% to just over $26 during European morning hours on Friday

Google logo on the front of a building

Finance

Global Bitcoin ATM Numbers Sink to Lowest Level Since 2021

Since the end of last year, the number installed worldwide has dropped 7,000, or 17%.

Cajero automático de bitcoin. (Ivan Radic/Flickr)

Finance

Bitcoin Asset Manager Onramp Unveils Multisig Platform, Adds BitGo to Custodians

With multisig security, several custodians control the private keys to the bitcoin being held. BitGo will perform this role alongside Coincover and Kingdom Trust.

hand holding a pen to sign a document

Finance

Pantera, Susquehanna and HashKey Back DEX SynFutures With $22M Funding

The funding round was led by Pantera Capital, and included participations from Susquehanna International Group and HashKey Capital

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Tech

Lightning Labs Rolls Out 'Taproot Assets,' to Make Bitcoin 'Multi-Asset' Network

Taproot Assets will give developers "the tools needed to make Bitcoin a multi-asset network, but in a scalable manner," according to Lightning Labs.

Binance sets up lightning network nodes (Leon Contreras/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Financial Services Firm Unchained Looks to Attract Wealthy Clients With New Advisory Service

Sound Advisory will offer a network of "bitcoin-competent" financial planners to help HNWIs build distribution and utilization strategies and address potential tax and inheritance issues.

Unchained Capital co-founders Dhruv Bansal (left) and Joe Kelly (Unchained)

Tech

Bitcoin Magazine Owner Backs First Ordinals Fund, Which Bought $85K Rock

The "Unbroken Chain" fund, as it is known, plans to raise $5 million from its limited partners and will trade in various Ordinals types, including BRC-20 tokens – sometimes positioned as NFTs on Bitcoin. Already the new group has bought an image of a rock for about $85,000.

https://ordiscan.com/collections