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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Web3

Metaverse Startup Futureverse Raises $54M Series A From 10T Holdings, Ripple Labs

Futureverse formed out of the merger of eight companies in late 2022, with three more assimilated subsequently.

Funding

Finance

Cathie Wood's ARK Sells Another $50.5M Coinbase Shares

The tech-focused investment manager owns over 10.5 million shares in Coinbase making it one of the largest holders of the stock.

Coinbase (COIN) reports fourth quarter earnings on Thursday and is expected to post strong numbers as trading volume picked up in the last few months of the year. (Piggybank/Unsplash)

Finance

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Talks Up Crypto Demand From Gold Investors

The asset management giant last month applied with regulators to open a spot bitcoin ETF.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink (Getty Images)

Finance

Stablecoin TrueUSD Owner Techteryx to Take Full Control of Operation

Techteryx assumed "full management full management of all offshore operations and services related to TUSD," on July 13

US banknote image via Shutterstock

Finance

Recently Exploited Crypto Bridge Shuts, Says China Detained CEO and His Sister

Multichain said it has been forced to take this action "due to lack of alternative sources of information and corresponding operational funds."

Store sign saying "Sorry we're closed"

Finance

Hedge Funds' Long-Term Crypto Interest Remains Robust Even as Proportion Investing Drops: PwC

The percentage of funds with crypto exposure fell to 29% from 37% last year, though no traditional hedge funds plans to decrease their exposure in 2023.

PwC logo on the side of a building

Tech

Zero-Knowledge Rollup ZKM Sets Out to Make Ethereum 'Universal Settlement Layer'

With funding from the foundation that oversees development of the Metis layer-2 Ethereum protocol, ZKM is developing a hybrid rollup that combines an Optmistic rollup and Zero-Knowledge rollup into one.

Rollup (Bru-nO/Pixabay)

Finance

Telegram Merchants Gain Access to In-App Crypto Payments for First Time

Wallet, which is built on the TON blockchain, is allowing merchants to integrate cryptocurrency into the bots they use to accept payments in the messaging app.

Telegram app on smartphone (Shutterstock)

Policy

Federal Prosecutors Investigate Former FTX Executive Over Possible Campaign Law Violations: WSJ

Ryan Salame is being investigated for potentially illegally avoiding federal limits on contributions to his girlfriend's congressional campaign last year.

Former Congressional candidate Michelle Bond (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Index Coop Aims to Improve Limitations of Protocol, On-Chain Structured Products

The infrastructure limitations of this sector include a lack of cross-chain asset support, expense in maintaining products due to high issuance costs and difficulty rebalancing on-chain products due to slippage.

Index (Maksym Kaharlytskyi/Unsplash)