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

Finance

Lil Yachty Collectible Fetches $16K in Latest String of High-Profile NFT Auctions

The lucky winner is “westcoastbill” – a user who appears to have sniped Tyler Winklevoss by $50 at the last minute.

Dec 17, 2020

Finance

Coinbase to Support Spark Token Airdrop to XRP Holders

Coinbase announced Saturday it plans to support an airdrop that has been seen as a factor in boosting XRP’s price.

Dec 6, 2020

Flare Network's Spark token appears to be coming to Coinbase.

Markets

XRP Led November's Crypto Bull Run With 169% Gain

XRP jumped 169% in November to top the performance rankings among digital assets in the CoinDesk 20, outperforming bitcoin and ether.

Dec 2, 2020

Finance

PayPal Removes Waitlist for New Crypto Service, Boosts Weekly Purchase Limit to $20K

All eligible PayPal accountholders in the U.S. can now buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency, the company announced Thursday.

Nov 12, 2020

Tech

Uniswap Proposal to Airdrop More UNI Falls Short in Governance Vote

The votes were staggeringly in favor, but a quorum was not reached, and Uniswap’s second-ever governance proposal has been defeated.

Nov 1, 2020

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Finance

The Graph Raises $12M in GRT Token Sale; Teases Mainnet Launch in 30-60 Days

Decentralized data-indexing protocol The Graph has raised $12 million in a public sale of its native GRT token.

Oct 28, 2020

The Graph co-founders, left to right: Jannis Pohlmann (tech lead), Brandon Ramirez (research lead), Yaniv Tal (project lead).

Finance

Dapper Labs Raises $18M in Token Sale for NFT-Centric Flow Blockchain

Dapper Labs has closed an $18 million token sale on the strength of its latest collectibles game, NBA Top Shot.

Oct 10, 2020

Markets

Andreessen Horowitz Gets FTC OK for Unspecified Coinbase Transaction

It is unclear at press time whether the approval is for a16z’s previously disclosed purchase of shares in Coinbase or for a new purchase.

Sep 24, 2020

Finance

Checking In With Terra, the Korean Stablecoin Firm Bringing Online Shoppers to Crypto

Terra's stablecoin savings account is a month delayed but the project is gaining momentum with over 2 million users on the firm's Chai payments app.

Sep 18, 2020

Terra's Chai app is seeing growth. (Soo Chung/Unsplash)

Finance

Diginex Raises $20M Ahead of SPAC Listing on Nasdaq

Diginex, the firm behind the newly launched EQUOS.io crypto exchange, has raised $20 million ahead of an anticipated Nasdaq listing later this month.

Sep 8, 2020