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Zack Seward

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.

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Terra's Do Kwon Still Says He's Not on the Run; Story DAO and the Quest to Recreate Hollywood

Do Kwon, the controversial co-founder of Terraform Labs, the firm behind the Terra blockchain network, has denied claims that he is on the run from law enforcement, despite Interpol reportedly issuing a "red notice" for his arrest last month. Plus, Story DAO co-creators Justin and J.P. Alanís join "The Hash" live from I.D.E.A.S. to discuss their "radical experiment in community world-building."

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Mastercard Joins Paxos to Help Banks Offer Crypto Trading; Magic Eden Moves to Optional Royalty Model

Mastercard (MA) has formed a partnership with crypto trading platform Paxos to offer a program that will help financial institutions offer cryptocurrency trading, the payments company said Monday. Plus, Solana non-fungible token (NFT) mainstay Magic Eden is moving to an optional royalty model, the marketplace said in a Friday night Twitter thread.

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NYDIG Cuts Workforce Amid Crypto Winter; Binance Pool Starts $500M Fund to Support Bitcoin Mining

Bitcoin services company NYDIG has laid off around 100 people, according to CoinDesk sources. The firm has cut approximately 30% of its staff in the past several weeks as the crypto market has soured. Crypto winter is also taking a toll on companies that man the virtual mines, which has led to cryptocurrency exchange Binance starting a lending facility for bitcoin (BTC) miners.

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October Becomes Worst Month for Crypto Crimes; Crypto Exchange Uniswap Labs Raises $165M

DeFi protocols have lost over $718 million to eleven different hacks this month so far, according to research firm Chainalysis. Plus, decentralized exchange Uniswap Labs raises $165 million in a Series B funding round led by crypto-focused investment firm Polychain Capital.

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