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

Hong Kong-Based Crypto Exchange OSL's Owner Weighing Sale at $128M Valuation: Bloomberg

BC Technology may elect to sell parts of OSL's business rather than the whole entity, according to the report, citing people familiar with the matter.

Hong Kong harbor skyline view into Kowloon

Finance

Ferrari to Start Accepting Crypto Payments in U.S, Europe to Follow

Ferrari will subsequently extend the scheme to Europe in response to demand from its wealthy customers

Ferrari (NoName_13/Pixabay)

Finance

Internet Computer's Dfinity Is Building Carbon Credit-Inspired Tech for Waste Management

The not-for-profit foundation is working with management consultancy Roland Berger who introduced the Voluntary Recycling Credits (VRC) standard in June, which is inspired by the carbon credit market.

Recycling (Pawel Czerwinski/Unsplash)

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