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

Australian Data Center Startup Arkon Expands to U.S. With $26M in Fresh Funding

CEO Joshua Payne said he expects the acquisition of a data center in Hannibal, Ohio to be "the first of several" over the next year.

Bitcoin miners are attractive partners to build AI data centers: Bernstein. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Investment Firm Republic Buys Stake in Crypto Broker-Dealer INX at $50M Valuation

Republic will acquire around a 9.5% stake in INX following the initial investment, with a commitment to acquire of 100% of equity at a valuation of $120 million as early as Q3 this year

(Shutterstock)

Policy

UK Financial Watchdog Cancels Binance Permissions on Firm's Request

U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority said Binance's local unit is no longer authorized to provide any regulated services in the country.

Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as "CZ", founder and CEO of Binance, at Davos in 2023. (Casper Labs)

Finance

Interoperability Protocol Connext Labs Raises $7.5M at $250M Valuation

Connext said it is "building the HTTP of Web3" to create a communication layer across different blockchain networks.

Senjin Pojskić from Pixabay

Policy

Binance Seeks to Withdraw Cyprus' Unit Crypto Service Registration

The world's largest crypto exchange won registration as a crypto asset service provider (CASP) in Cyprus in October last year.

Binance has registered an entity with regulators in Cyprus. (Sasha Cures/Unsplash)

Finance

Investing Platform eToro to Delist 4 Cryptocurrencies for U.S. Users Next Month

eToro cited "recent developments" as the reason for the move, referring to the SEC's legal action against Coinbase and Binance and the regulator labelling certain cryptocurrencies as securities.

EToro and its SPAC partner mutually agreed to call off a planned takeover. (eToro)

Finance

A16z Chooses London as Destination for First Office Outside U.S.

The venture capital firm plans to use the office, which will open later this year, to fund growth in the crypto and startup ecosystems in the U.K. and Europe.

City of London, England (Shutterstock)

Finance

Aave-Developed Lens Protocol Raises $15M to Expand 'Social Layer' of Web3

Uniswap CEO Hayden Adams, OpenSea co-founder Alex Atallah, entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal joined the round as angel investors.

(Shutterstock)

Policy

Australia's Commonwealth Bank Will Partially Restrict Payments to Crypto Exchanges

The Australian bank announced on Thursday that will decline "certain payments" to crypto exchanges or hold them for a period of 24 hours

Australian dollars (Squirrel photos/Pixabay)

Web3

Health and Fitness App Sweat Economy to Vote on 'Reallocating' 2.5B Inactive Tokens

The 2.5 billion “abandoned” SWEAT tokens, which constitute around 13% of the total supply, were allocated to users at the app's conception last September.

STEPN rewards runners and walkers with crypto. (Raúl González/Flickr)