Eli Tan

Eli was a news reporter for CoinDesk who covered NFTs, gaming and the metaverse. He graduated from St. Olaf College with a degree in English. He holds ETH, SOL, AVAX and a few NFTs above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1000.

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Polygon Bolsters Augur Betting Platform With $1M Liquidity Program

Augur is looking to expand into betting markets such as the National Football League, the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball.

(Atul Vinayak/Unsplash)

Finance

Solana-Based NFT Firm Metaplex Names Adam Jefferies CEO of New Studio

He will be joined by a new board that includes members from Audius, Coinshares, Cultur3 Capital, Phantom and Saber Labs.

Solana logo on a smartphone arranged in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Saturday, July 31, 2021. The Senate's bipartisan infrastructure deal envisions imposing stricter rules on cryptocurrency investors to collect more taxes to fund a portion of the $550 billion investment into transportation and power systems. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Finance

Dapper Labs Is Bringing Its NFTs to the NFL

The NFT marketplace will run on the Flow blockchain and is expected to be released during the current NFL regular season.

NFL (Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)

Finance

Top NFL Prospect Kayvon Thibodeaux Taps Rally to Launch Own Cryptocurrency

The highly touted edge rusher out of Oregon is the first football player and second college athlete to do so.

Kayvon Thibodeaux of the Oregon Ducks (Abbie Parr/Getty Images)

Finance

Dapper Labs Said to Reach $7.6B Valuation in $250M Funding Round

The firm behind NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain also announced a deal with Spain’s top soccer league, LaLiga.

Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou

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European Football NFT Platform Sorare Raises $680M Series B

The raise values the company at $4.3 billion.

Real Madrid CF v Juventus (Denis Doyle/Getty Images)

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Huobi Global Token Burn Spikes 55% in August, Indicating Strong Revenue Gain

The sharp increase in token burn contrasts to a steep drop in July.

Huobi OTC

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CleanSpark Picks Atlanta Area for $145M Bet on Carbon-Neutral Bitcoin Mining

The company will add 20 skilled jobs to the Norcross data center that it purchased in August for over $6.5 million.

Data Center Server Room Bitcoin Mining

Finance

Crypto.com Signs $15M Esports Partnership With Fnatic

The five-year partnership is Crypto.com’s first in the esports space.

Kris Marszalek, Crypto.com

Finance

Dapper Labs Leads $5M-Plus Seed Funding Round for Music NFT Platform RCRDSHP

The platform is bringing electronic music-inspired NFTs and collectibles to the Flow blockchain.

Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou