Michael Bellusci

Michael Bellusci is a former CoinDesk crypto reporter. Previously he covered stocks for Bloomberg. He has no significant crypto holdings.

Michael Bellusci

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Finance

CoinFLEX Pauses Withdrawals Amid ‘Extreme Market Conditions’ and Counterparty Uncertainty

The counterparty is not crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, CoinFLEX's CEO said.

Does the UST meltdown say anything about the future and promises of crypto? (FLY:D/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase Shares Slump With Crypto Prices as Binance.US Starts Zero-Fee BTC Trading

Cryptocurrency prices resumed their slump, hurting Coinbase and related equities.

New York Stock Exchange, NYSE (Shutterstock)

Finance

Voyager Digital Plunges on Three Arrows Exposure, Analyst Downgrade

The crypto broker said it's on the hook for about $370 million of bitcoin and $350 million of USDC and has asked for a repayment installment by Friday.

Steve Ehrlich, co-founder and CEO of Voyager

Finance

FalconX Raises $150M at $8B Valuation

GIC and B Capital led the Series D funding round for the digital asset broker.

FalconX CEO Raghu Yarlagadda (FalconX)

Finance

FTX Unit Buys Stock-Clearing Platform Embed to Expand Equity Trading Infrastructure

The acquisition is intended to aid FTX.US' equity trading ambitions.

FTX US President Brett Harrison (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Hong Kong’s Hoo.com Expects to Re-Open Some Token Withdrawals Today; Finblox Takes Steps to Address Liquidity

Several Hong Kong-based crypto platforms have made changes to their policies amid the market upheaval and liquidity crunches.

Hong Kong where Tether is headquartered (Ruslan Bardash/Unsplash).

Finance

NFT Platform Immutable Launches $500M Venture Fund for Web3 Games

Immutable Ventures will work with groups including Animoca and GameStop.

(Getty Images)

Finance

Genesis Trading Mitigated Losses With a 'Large Counterparty,' CEO Says

Genesis’ update comes after crypto fund Three Arrows Capital confirmed heavy losses during the market rout.

Genesis Trading CEO Michael Moro (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Musk Sees Logic for Twitter as a Crypto Payments Platform

The Tesla CEO has agreed to purchase Twitter for about $44 billion and spoke Thursday at an all-hands meeting for the social network company.

Elon Musk spoke at an all-hands meeting for Twitter employees. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Finance

Michael Saylor Says MicroStrategy Margin Call Talk Is ‘Much Ado About Nothing’

The CEO also told CNBC that the software company planned to buy more bitcoin with its free cash flow.

MicroStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk archives)