Zack Seward

Zack Seward is CoinDesk’s contributing editor-at-large. Up until July 2022, he served as CoinDesk’s deputy editor-in-chief. Prior to joining CoinDesk in November 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a news site focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Before that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations, WHYY in Philadelphia and WXXI in Rochester, New York. Seward originally hails from San Francisco and went to college at the University of Chicago. He worked at the PBS NewsHour in Washington, D.C., before attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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Would You Buy a Tesla With Bitcoin? Robinhood Files IPO Paperwork and More

“The Hash” panel tackles today’s hot topics: Elon Musk says you can use bitcoin to buy Teslas, Blockchain.com is now valued at $5.2B after new investment round, Serena Williams invests in Lolli and legal troubles begin at controversial BitClout.

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Tech

Uniswap Unveils Version 3 in Bid to Stay DeFi's Top Dog

V3 of the automated market maker is penciled in for an Ethereum mainnet launch on May 5.

Uniswap has become Ethereum's most prominent DEX.

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Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord, How BitClout Is Sparking Controversy on Twitter and More

“The Hash” panel tackles today’s hot topics: Why Microsoft could buy Discord for billions, “Crypto Twitter” is unhappy with BitClout, Jack Dorsey’s first tweet NFT sold for $2.9M, Coin Center’s analysis of the new FATF draft guidance for crypto and more.

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Turkey’s Central Bank Chief Fired, Russia’s Darknet Criminals Have a Novel Crypto Cash-Out System and More

“The Hash” panel tackles today’s hot topics: Bitcoin searches spike as Turkey’s central bank chief is fired, how Russia’s darknet criminals are cashing out of crypto, a new token trap exploit is roiling Ethereum’s DeFi markets and the “Wolf of Wall Street” is changing his tune about bitcoin.

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Finance

Cardano's ADA Is Now Tradable on Coinbase

ADA is currently the third-largest cryptocurrency, with a market capitalization of $41.9 billion.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson

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Will DeFi Be More Disruptive Than Bitcoin? What Tony Hawk and Lindsay Lohan Have in Common and More

“The Hash” panel tackles today’s hot topics: Why BofA thinks decentralized finance could be more disruptive than bitcoin, could “double deposit” exploits happen at crypto exchanges, Tony Hawk and Lindsay Lohan are the latest celebrities to jump into hot NFT marketplace, and want a real-life job at a virtual casino?

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Why $69M Beeple NFT Buyer MetaKovan Just Revealed Himself, Google’s Privacy Push in US Antitrust Sights and More

“The Hash” panel tackles today’s hot topics: How Fireblocks is capitalizing on the crypto custody boom, $69M Beeple NFT buyer MetaKovan is no longer pseudonymous, new developments in the scrutiny over Google’s “cookies” privacy push, Kentucky is courting crypto miners and the Thai Central Bank’s new warning.

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Tech

Tally Raises $1.5M to Boost On-Chain Governance in Compound’s DeFi Ecosystem

Notation Capital, Castle Island Ventures, 1kx and others invested in the governance dashboard.

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Finance

Fireblocks Raises $133M to Serve More Megabanks With Crypto Custody

The Series C round was led by Coatue – with participation from BNY Mellon.

Left to right: Fireblocks co-founders Pavel Berengoltz, Michael Shaulov and Idan Ofrat.

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Grayscale Launches 5 New Trusts, Will Sports Teams Help Crypto Go Mainstream and More

“The Hash” panel tackles today’s hot topics: Why Grayscale is launching five new crypto trusts, Crypto.com is sponsoring an NHL team, Signal is seeking crypto donations and what happened to the teen behind the massive July 2020 Twitter hack.

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