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Jenny Johnson Has 76-Year-Old Franklin Templeton Learning Blockchain Tricks

The $1.33 trillion asset manager was viewed as old-fashioned, but its CEO is at the forefront of Wall Street's embrace of bitcoin ETFs and crypto technology.

Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

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Ryan Selkis Goes to Washington

Ryan Selkis built a political fundraising machine for crypto that's ready to sway elections in 2024. That's why the Messari founder is one of CoinDesk's Most Influential people of 2023.

Messari CEO and founder Ryan Selkis.

Consensus Magazine

Casey Rodarmor: The Bitcoin Artist

His "Ordinals Theory," allowing data inscription on Bitcoin, generated a backlash from Bitcoiners who said it will ruin the network. But Rodarmor remains undeterred.

Casey Rodarmor, who shook up Bitcoin with Ordinals (Rhett Mankind)

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7 Successful Strategies of Crypto Traders

Traders interviewed by CoinDesk say that crypto winter is over. Here’s how they plan to get ahead in the next phase of the market. Jeff Wilser reports.

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U.S. Treasuries Spearhead Tokenization Boom

Driven by favorable macro conditions and increased willingness among traders to dive into real-world assets, the market for tokenized debt is flying. Jeff Wilser reports for Trading Week.

The U.S. Treasury Department's financial crimes arm reported on the use of bitcoin in human trafficking and other global crimes. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Post-FTX, Bitcoin Is Ready for its Next Chapter

One year after the exchange's collapse, bitcoin is up nearly 70%. CoinDesk spoke to market watchers to find out what comes next.

Bitcoin sculpture made from scrap metal outside the BitCluster mining farm in Norilsk, Russia.

Policy

How Japan Is Leading the Race to Regulate Stablecoins

Japan’s new law tries to address one of the biggest fears about major stablecoins: Do issuers really have the assets to back them?

Vintage Japanese banknotes (Dennis Elzinga/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

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How African Students Became Victims of FTX’s Collapse

“We saw an exchange that was supposedly better than every other one we had used, so we let a lot of family and friends get involved with the FTX platform,” FTX Africa’s former education lead Pius Okedinachi told CoinDesk.

FTX Campus Meetup at the Petroleum Training Institute, Warri, Nigeria (FTX)

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‘Elizabeth Warren Chalked the Field’: Former Congressmen Tim Ryan (D) and David McIntosh (R) on the Prospects for Crypto Legislation Before the Election

David McIntosh says the SEC’s approach to crypto “makes the consumer and the investor much more vulnerable.”

The U.S. Congress (buschap/Flickr)

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Digital Asset Recap Q3 2023: Bitcoin and Ether Outperform Wider Market Amid Regulatory Pressure and the Promise of ETFs

The CoinDesk Market Index fell 11% overall as we saw increased bifurcation between established majors (Bitcoin and Ether) and all other digital asset protocols and projects, writes Todd Groth, head of research at CoinDesk Indices.

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