Helene Braun

Helene is a New York-based markets reporter at CoinDesk, covering the latest news from Wall Street, the rise of the spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds and updates on crypto markets. She is a graduate of New York University's business and economic reporting program and has appeared on CBS News, YahooFinance and Nasdaq TradeTalks. She holds BTC and ETH.

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Markets

Bitcoin Price Crushing Altcoins Heading Into U.S. Election. Is There an Alt Rally Coming After?

Altcoins have lagged throughout the year amid regulatory uncertainty, and hence, K33 Research analysts said they are "more sensitive" to the election results.

BTC, SOL, ETH and CD20 price performance over the past week (CoinDesk Indices)

Finance

First UK Pension Fund Invests in Bitcoin

Moving bitcoin into pension schemes is “a bold step that reflects the forward-thinking nature of the trustees involved,” pension specialist Cartwright told Corporate Advisor magazine.

The first U.K.-based pension fund has allocated money into bitcoin. (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)

Finance

Michael Saylor Conjures Stock Market Magic With Giant Plan to Buy More Bitcoin

Normally, a $21 billion equity offering by a company only worth just over double that amount would tank the issuer's stock price. But the economics around corporate America's biggest bitcoin bull are different.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (Credit: CoinDesk/Danny Nelson)

Finance

Franklin Templeton Takes Its Tokenized Treasury Fund to Base, Becomes First Asset Manager on the Layer 2

The $410 million fund is also available on Stellar, Aptos, Avalanche, Arbitrum and Polygon.

Base booth at ETHDenver (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase Shares Slump After Big Q3 Earnings Miss on 'Softer' Market Condition

The exchange also said it will buyback up to $1 billion of its shares, depending on the market conditions.

Coinbase Asset Management is getting into tokenized money-market funds. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Finance

Coinbase, Visa to Allow Real-Time Crypto Deposits Through Debit Card

While millions of users are already using debit cards to connect to their Coinbase accounts, the Visa debit card holders offer near-instant transfers, which wasn’t possible before.

visa, credit cards

Finance

Coinbase Revenue May Be Hurt by Lower Trading Volumes, Regulatory Uncertainty, Analysts Say

The crypto exchange may also see lower staking revenue when it reports its Q3 earnings as ether underperformed in the quarter.

Coinbase (PiggyBank/Unsplash)

Finance

Consensys Cuts 20% Workforce, Blames SEC’s ‘Abuse Of Power’

The main supporter of the Ethereum network has been in an ongoing battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission who most recently alleged the company of operating as an unregistered broker.

Joe Lubin, founder and CEO of Consensys, discusses Ethereum's political prospects. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk/Suzanne Cordiero)

Finance

Emory University Joins Bitcoin ETF Rush, Reporting $16M Holding in Grayscale Vehicle

The endowment also reported a modest holding in crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN).

Main quadrangle on Emory University's Druid Hills campus (Wikipedia)

Finance

Microsoft Urges Shareholders to Vote Against a Proposal to Assess Bitcoin as a Diversification Investment: Filing

The proposal from the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, argues that bitcoin is an “excellent, if not the best, hedge against inflation.”

Microsoft Offices, Mountain View, Ca. (Getty/David Pu'u)