Parikshit Mishra

Parikshit Mishra is CoinDesk's Regional Head of Asia, managing the editorial team in the region. Before joining CoinDesk, he was the EMEA Editor at Acuris (Mergermarket), where he dealt with copies related to private equity and the startup ecosystem. He has also worked as an Senior Analyst for CRISIL, covering the European markets and global economies. His most notable tenure was with Reuters, where he worked as a correspondent and an editor for various teams. He does not have any crypto holdings.

Parikshit Mishra

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Markets

BlackRock Amends Ethereum ETF Application; Bloomberg’s Balchunas Sees ETF Going Live By June

A 'Seed Capital Investor' has purchased 400,000 shares of the proposed filing, BlackRock revealed in its document.

BlackRock headquarters (Shutterstock)

Finance

PayPal Makes Retail Stablecoin Play with PYUSD on Solana

The asset comes with Token Extensions that give it compliance superpowers.

A large PayPal logo is on display outside its corporate HQ (Shutterstock)

Finance

ZKasino Gives Users 72 Hours to Retrieve Their Ether

The on-chain casino received $33 million in deposits last month.

Zkasino has re-opened ether bridge to users. (Carl Raw/Unsplash)

Finance

Riot Platforms Is Best Suited to Consolidate Bitcoin Mining Sector: Bernstein

The company has the financial capacity to consolidate the bitcoin mining space, the report said.

A bitfarms mining site in Washington. (CoinDesk)

Markets

BlackRock Takes the Crown for the Largest Spot Bitcoin ETF From Grayscale

Inflows to IBIT have picked up recently after a dismal few weeks at the end of April. BlackRock now holds the ETF in one of its major funds.

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

SOL, XRP Could Be Possible Candidates for ETFs, Standard Chartered Says

Standard Chartered analyst Geoffrey Kendric said that those exchange-traded funds could be on the horizon in 2025.

Scrabble letters spelling ETF arranged a rack

Policy

Binance Money Laundering Trial in Nigeria Pushed to June 20 Due to Executive’s Illness

Binance's head of financial crimes compliance Tigran Gambaryan is seriously ill, his lawyers said.

Tigran Gambaryan, Binance's head of crime compliance, is one of two executives detained in Nigeria. (Shutterstock/Consensus)

Finance

Crypto Infrastructure Firm Ramp Network Secures Ireland Registration

The company wants to make Ireland its European headquarters.

Dublin, Ireland (Diogo Palhais/ Unsplash)

Finance

Solana-Based Wallet Phantom Buys Web3 Specialist Bitski

The Bitski team will be joining Phantom to bring embedded wallets to Solana, simplifying the onboarding process for both users and developers, the firms said.

Phantom CEO Brandon Millman. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk))

Finance

Fidelity Drops Staking Plans in Updated Ether ETF Filing

Annualized yields on ether staking are nearly 3% as of Tuesday, data from popular staking service Lido shows.

Scrabble letters spelling ETF arranged a rack