Zack Seward

Contributing Editor-at-Large

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.

Latest from Zack Seward

Tech

Early CryptoPunk Digital Collectible Sells for $762K in Ether

Flamingo, a DAO for NFT investments, bought the ultra-rare “Alien” in a Saturday auction.

Jan 23, 2021

Finance

Coinbase Now Has Over $90B in Assets on Platform

Coinbase published fresh numbers Friday on how much capital has flowed onto the exchange in recent months.

Jan 22, 2021

Coinbase President and COO Emilie Choi speaks at Consensus 2019.

Tech

Why Everyone From Square to Facebook Is Now Hosting the Bitcoin White Paper

The uploads come in response to legal threats by Craig Wright.

Jan 21, 2021

Finance

Coinbase Wants to List Your Crypto Asset

"Our directive is to list every compliant asset possible," the exchange wrote Thursday.

Jan 14, 2021

Finance

Latest Music Act to Launch a Social Token: Portugal. The Man

The Grammy Award–winning band is turning to Rally to join the ranks of musicians launching fan engagement tokens.

Jan 14, 2021

Portugal. The Man performs in West Hollywood at The Troubadour on Oct. 11, 2019.

Policy

Visa Abandons $5.3B Acquisition of Plaid Over DOJ Antitrust Concerns

The Department of Justice announced Tuesday the deal is off.

Jan 12, 2021

Finance

Dan Larimer Announces Departure From EOS Builder Block.One

Dan Larimer has left Block.one, the company that raised $4 billion to build the software behind the EOS blockchain.

Jan 10, 2021

Dan Larimer speaks at the Voice launch event in Washington, D.C., June 2019.

Finance

Coinbase Acquires Routefire to Beef Up Institutional Bitcoin Offering

Leading U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase has acquired trade execution startup Routefire. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Jan 7, 2021

Markets

Coinbase to Suspend XRP Trading Following SEC Suit Against Ripple

Coinbase said it will suspend trading of XRP, the cryptocurrency at the heart of an SEC lawsuit against Ripple Labs.

Dec 28, 2020

Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple CEO, speaks at Davos 2020. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Paxos, Firm Powering PayPal's Crypto Service, Raises $142M

Paxos has raised $142 million to facilitate mainstream adoption. “We think that opportunity is now,” said CEO Charles Cascarilla.

Dec 17, 2020