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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Finance

Stripe Brings Back Crypto Payments Via USDC Stablecoin

The payments firm stopped taking crypto payments in 2018 due to bitcoin’s high volatility.

Stripe co-founder and President John Collison said, "crypto is finding real utility," in a keynote on Thursday. (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)

Finance

Franklin Templeton Upgrades $380M Tokenized Treasury Fund to Enable Peer-to-Peer Transfers

The new feature helps to expand the utility of the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund's BENJI token and make it more interconnected with the digital asset ecosystem.

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Finance

KPMG Survey Finds 39% of Canada’s Institutional Investors Had Exposure To Crypto Assets in 2023

Of those 39%, three quarters owned crypto currencies directly.

Canada's regulatory situation is both clear and more conservative than in the U.S. (Sebastiaan Stam/Unsplash)

Finance

Jack Dorsey’s Block Is Building a Bitcoin Mining System

The firm also completed the development of its three-nanometer mining chip, which it had been working on since April 2023.

Jack Dorsey speaks at Consensus 2018 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Payments App Strike Launches for European Customers

The app, which has been available in the U.S. since 2020, also recently expanded its services to Africa.

Strike CEO Jack Mallers speaking at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami Beach, Florida (Frederick Munawa)

Markets

NYSE Asks Market Participants About 24/7 Trading for Stocks

Round-the-clock trading became popular with the rise of cryptocurrencies and an increase in retail investor activity during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The New York Stock Exchange (Tomas Eidsvold/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Halving Is Not a Bullish Event, Says 10x Research Analyst

Markus Thielen, co-founder of 10x Research, said that previous post-halving bull run cycles weren’t a result of the halving, but of the macro environment.

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