Lyllah Ledesma

Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe. She holds a master's degree from New York University in Business and Economics and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of East Anglia. Lyllah holds bitcoin, ether and small amounts of other crypto assets.

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Markets

'DePIN' Is Venture Capitalists' Latest Crypto Obsession. Can It Match the Hype?

DePIN involves taking real-world infrastructure like a wireless network and running it with a blockchain-powered system. VCs are salivating, but there aren't many customers yet.

globe held in someone's hand (Greg Rosenke/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Homium Raises $10M and Tokenizes Home Equity Loans on Avalanche

The loans are currently live in Colorado with plans to extend to other states.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Americas: BTC Below $62.5K While Altcoins Wipe Gains

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for April 16, 2024.

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Markets

Ether, Altcoins Remain Under Pressure Following Volatile Weekend

Bitcoin has also given up some of its early Monday bounce, returning down to the $64,000 level.

Ether price on Monday (CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Hong Kong Spot Bitcoin ETF Applicants Claim Approval

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for April 15, 2024.

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Markets

First Mover Americas: BTC Holds Stable at $70K

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for April 12, 2024.

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Markets

First Mover Americas: Uniswap's Token Slides on SEC Lawsuit

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for April 11, 2024.

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Finance

DePIN Platform Uplink Raises $10M Led by Framework Ventures

Uplink provides decentralized network connectivity with the aim of creating better distributed and user-operated infrastructure.

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Finance

Bitfinex Securities Introduces El Salvador’s First Tokenized Debt to Fund New Hilton Hotel

The token will be issued on the Liquid Network, a bitcoin sidechain.

El Salvador (Esaú González, Unsplash)

Finance

NEAR to Hire Artificial-Intelligence Engineers as Part of AI Roadmap

The company will begin its AI initiative in the next 3-6 months according to a document reviewed by CoinDesk.

Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol (Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)