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

Policy

CoinDesk at WEF 2020: Crypto Themes to Watch as Davos Gets Underway

Get your Fourth Industrial Revolution hardhats on. CoinDesk is at Davos to help you ponder the slew of problems ailing today’s global economy.

Jan 20, 2020

Signage for the 50th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. (Photo by Aaron Stanely for CoinDesk)

Tech

Orchid's Decentralized VPN Network Set for Early-December Launch

Decentralized VPN provider Orchid will debut its app, network and token (OXT) during the first week of December.

Nov 21, 2019

Orchid CEO Steven "Seven" Waterhouse speaks at Token Summit III, photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk

Finance

PayPal Joins $4.2M Round for Crypto Banking Compliance Startup

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian’s Initialized Capital, Blockchain Capital and PayPal Ventures are backing TRM Labs in its effort to help financial firms manage crypto risk.

Nov 19, 2019

TRM Labs co-founders Esteban Castaño and Rahul Raina

Markets

Winklevoss Capital, Coinbase Back $1.8 Million Round for Bitski Crypto Wallet

The startup looks to boost mainstream crypto adoption by making it easier for developers to put crypto wallets in their applications.

Nov 13, 2019

Markets

Filecoin, But Forever: Arweave Raises $5 Million to Build Out 'Permaweb'

Arweave, a startup building a decentralized storage protocol for the world's knowledge, raises $5 million via token sale from a16z, USV and Multicoin.

Nov 5, 2019

Markets

Ex-Coinbase CTO Is Behind Mysterious Nakamoto.com, Sources Say

"Nakamoto is bitcoin country. HODL or GTFO." Sources tell CoinDesk this is the new project from former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan.

Aug 7, 2019

Balaji Srinivasan image via CoinDesk archives

Markets

VP of Engineering Tim Wagner Becomes Latest Exec to Leave Coinbase

Coinbase is losing three high-ranking engineering staffers, CoinDesk has learned, including VP of engineering Tim Wagner.

Jul 30, 2019

Markets

Multicoin Leads $20 Million Round for Speed-Focused Solana Blockchain

Claiming it can handle many more transactions per second than existing blockchains, Solana has raised capital to ramp up development.

Jul 30, 2019

Markets

Too Sick for Buffett Lunch, Justin Sun Attends Tron Influencer Party in SF

Justin Sun said he postponed the Buffett lunch due to kidney stones. But that didn't stop him from briefly mingling at a Tron party Thursday night.

Jul 26, 2019

Justin Sun speaks at Consensus (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

ShapeShift's New Platform Aims to Make Crypto Self-Custody as Easy as Coinbase

ShapeShift’s new one-stop shop for non-custodial crypto management is launching out of private beta today.

Jul 8, 2019