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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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
