Ian Allison

Ian Allison is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, focused on institutional and enterprise adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Prior to that, he covered fintech for the International Business Times in London and Newsweek online. He won the State Street Data and Innovation journalist of the year award in 2017, and was runner up the following year. He also earned CoinDesk an honourable mention in the 2020 SABEW Best in Business awards. His November 2022 FTX scoop, which brought down the exchange and its boss Sam Bankman-Fried, won a Polk award, Loeb award and New York Press Club award. Ian graduated from the University of Edinburgh. He holds ETH.

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Finance

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.

Circle plans to move into One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the picture. (Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images)

Finance

Binance.US Chooses Fireblocks to Bolster Crypto Custody, Staking Services

The exchange will use Fireblocks to power custody operations, customer deposits and withdrawals, and further expand staking services.

Two large stacked blocks displaying Binance's logo at a trade show.

Tech

Coinbase Layer-2 Success Shows Power of Marketing Over Cutting-Edge Tech

Base’s “Onchain Summer” promotion saw participation of over 2 million unique wallets, resulting in over $5 million in mint revenue to creators, according to a blog post.

(Alpha Photo/Flickr)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Woo X Introduces Copy Trading, With a Twist

The exchange’s version of social trading comes with a countertrade feature as well as more transparent and equitable profit sharing.

Woo X Chief Operating Officer Willy Chuang (Woo X)

Policy

VC Giants a16z, Union Square Ventures Get Subpoenaed by New York About Uniswap: Sources

"We don't wish the burden of unnecessary subpoenas on anyone," a spokesperson for Uniswap told CoinDesk.

New York state Attorney General Letitia James (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Switzerland’s Fourth-Biggest Bank ZKB Offers Retail Customers Bitcoin and Ether

ZKB’s new service also allows other Swiss banks to offer customers the trading and custody of cryptocurrencies, with Thurgauer Kantonalbank being the first partner bank to use the service.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Brevan Howard-Backed Tokenization Firm Libre Arrives on NEAR Blockchain

NEAR Protocol’s cross-chain signing feature will allow users on multiple blockchains to transact with Libre’s selection of tokenized credit and hedge funds.

Libre CEO Avtar Sehra sits on a chair in front of a microphone (Libre)

Finance

Tokenization Pioneer Centrifuge Unveils Lending Market With Morpho, Coinbase

The institutional real-world asset lending market combines Coinbase’s layer-2 network, Base, and Morpho Vaults using three varieties of tokenized Treasury bills.

Lucas Vogelsang (left) and Base creator Jesse Pollak at the 2023 RWA Summit in New York City. (Centrifuge)

Tech

Crypto Startup Backed by Likes of Dragonfly Aims to Create Market to Trade Airdrop-Related Points

Rumpel Labs seeking to create efficient secondary markets, going live in mid-September.

Josh Levine (left), co-founder & CTO; Kenton Prescott, co-founder & CEO (Rumpel Labs)

Finance

Crypto Asset Manager Grayscale Offers AVAX Token Investment in New Avalanche Trust

The provider of bitcoin and ether ETFs now offers more than 20 crypto investment products.

Grayscale ad (Grayscale)