Jeanhee Kim

Jeanhee Kim was CoinDesk's senior editor for lists, rankings and special projects. She is a veteran journalist and special projects editor who launched the Forbes Asia inaugural 100 to Watch in 2021, Forkast.News' Blockchain in Asia series, and edited the Crain's New York Business 40 Under 40, Fast 50 and Most Powerful Women. She has previously worked for Forbes Asia, Forkast.News, Crain's New York Business, FamilyMoney.com, Oxygen Media's ka-Ching.com, and Money magazine as an editor, producer or reporter. Her family owns BTC, ETH, SOL and CARD above the $1,000 threshold.

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Consensus Magazine

Tokenization News Roundup: Pendulum Swings Toward Doubters

In recent weeks, the buzz around the emerging tool of tokenizing real-world assets has been on how it will grow to achieve the $16 trillion-by-2030 potential that the Boston Consulting Group predicted last year. Inevitably, criticism intrudes, and this week there is sober opinion, caution and skepticism in the zeitgeist.

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Consensus Magazine

Crypto Market Leaders and Laggards: The Biggest Movers of the Week

Stellar, XRP and Shiba Inu were notable winners from the last week, while Curve Finance and Augur struggled. The market is down overall, according to CoinDesk Market Index, but only marginally compared to recent growth.

Bitcoin volatility is falling. (Shutterstock)

Consensus Magazine

Tokenization News Roundup: Avalanche Invests $50M in RWA

Competition among blockchains and regions like Asia to grab some of the RWA market, new lending pool that supports Colombian farmers, the first-ever tokenization under Spain’s new laws, how the U.K’s regulations may lead to the country becoming a tokenization hub, and more for the week ending July 27, 2023.

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Consensus Magazine

Bitcoin Mining Machine Efficiency Doubled in Five Years

A recent report by Coin Metrics has news for fans of energy efficiency: ASIC miners overall are reducing their energy consumption per coin produced. But which are the most efficient? For Mining Week, CoinDesk dug deeper to determine which of 11 popular mining machines were the most competitive.

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Learn

RWA Tokenization: What Does It Mean to Tokenize Real-World Assets?

Traditional finance giants are excited about the idea of putting ownership of assets like precious metals, art, homes and more on the blockchain.

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Consensus Magazine

Tokenization News Roundup: Real-World Assets Come to Blockchains

A weekly digest of articles, reports and analyses about tokenized RWAs, the fast-growing financial instruments that merge traditional finance to the blockchain.

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Opinion

Could the Ripple Ruling Spell the End of Regulation by Enforcement?

A long-awaited district judge’s ruling that some XRP token sales were not investment contracts will likely eventually lead to a bipartisan regulatory framework that is more favorable to the pro-crypto crowd in Congress, writes John Rizzo.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler at a U.S. Treasury council hearing in October 2022 (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Opinion

Why Edinburgh Is Zumo's Crypto Hub

A conversation with Nick Jones, the co-founder and CEO of digital-assets infrastructure platform Zumo, on how being accepted to a blockchain accelerator and COVID-19 workplace changes influenced their choice to establish and remain in Scotland.

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Consensus Magazine

He Got Arrested in Russia for a Bitcoin Bribe. Now the Coins Are Moving to Exchanges

A criminal investigator in Moscow allegedly extorted thousands of bitcoin from the hackers he arrested. Now, these coins have moved onto exchanges, Crystal Blockchain found.

Marat Tambiev, Russian officer allegedly turned crypto criminal (YouTube)

Opinion

Why Lisbon Is Immunefi's Crypto Hub

A frank conversation with founder and CEO Mitchell Amador about where he optimized his startup’s locations from the perspective of regulations, taxes and human health. This interview is part of Crypto Hubs 2023.

Immunefi founder and CEO Mitchell Amador speaking at VivaTech 2023.

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