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Finance

Stablecoin Giant Circle Is Moving Its Headquarters to New York City

The USDC issuer will move into One World Trade Center, and New York Mayor Eric Adams – who has sought to make the city a crypto hub – will attend the Friday ribbon cutting.

Circle plans to move into One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the picture. (Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images)

Videos

What Could Sam Bankman-Fried’s Jury Possibly Look Like?

As Sam Bankman-Fried's trial approaches on Oct. 3, CoinDesk TV producers asked people in New York City what they know about about FTX collapse and the exchange's founder. Bankman-Fried's jury will include randomly selected New York residents, so interviewees explained their perceptions regarding the case.

The SBF Trial and How We Got Here

Opinion

What New York Can Learn From Hong Kong in Regulating Crypto

A small number of unelected individuals in Washington D.C. are exercising alarming authoritarian power as regulators, counter to the Big Apple’s stated desire to move from antiquated financial systems to digital ones, writes Omer Ozden.

Eric Adams (NYC Gov) and John Lee (Creative Commons)

Consensus Magazine

New York City: A Crypto Sandbox in a Big Business Playground

The Big Apple is big everything. The world’s financial center, it also has a huge population not only of talented developers to hire, but consumers to sell to. In such a huge and bustling ecosystem, crypto may not rate as the city’s highest priority. But like it or not, the No. 12 spot in CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023 is a place crypto companies must be.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

‘We’re Poor Again, but We’re Still Here’: Why NFT.NYC Won’t Die

It was fun, it was cringe – in short, the premier NFT conference was again itself.

Attendees gather on the dance floor at the Goblintown party. (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)

Videos

Expensive NYC Building Listed on NFT Marketplace OpenSea

A New York City office building went on sale for $29 million, with the rights to purchase the property listed as a non-fungible token (NFT) on OpenSea. The listing’s price, however, was set in ether (ETH), which has plummeted over 40% since the start of June.

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Finance

A Manhattan Landlord Listed His Office Building in ETH as an NFT. Then Its Price Dropped $12M

The owner, Chris Okada, says the building will be relisted in the coming days to adjust for ether’s 40% price drop.

Act now? This building, priced in ETH, may be on sale. (OpenSea)

Policy

Former Party Organizer Indicted for Laundering $2.7M in Bitcoin and Cash

Thomas Spieker was indicted for operating a global bitcoin laundering scheme that helped multiple clients hide profits earned from illegal activities.

The Manhattan District Attorney announced charges in a bitcoin money laundering scheme. (Unsplash)

Policy

Bitcoin-Friendly Mayors View Blockchain as a Way to Boost Equality, Diversity

New York City’s Eric Adams and Miami’s Francis Suarez also discussed how the U.S. can embrace blockchain technology to defy authoritarian regimes.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez

Finance

EmpireDAO Is Building a WeWork for Web 3

EmpireDAO’s organizers will be leasing 36,000 square feet in Manhattan for what they hope will be NYC’s most desired coworking space for crypto builders.

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