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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Tezos Foundation Teams Up With Baanx for Non-Custodial Crypto Card

Baanx has been working with Mastercard to deliver a range of non-custodial crypto card offerings.

Tezos logo. (Tezos)

Finance

Decentralized Crypto Exchange WOOFi Uses Gaming Style NFTs to Boost DeFi

So-called “Boosters” enhance the yield from WOO tokens, which are staked to earn a share of the DEX’s fees.

Yield Booster NFTs (WOOFi)

Finance

Standard Chartered-Backed Zodia Custody Partners with Crypto Lending Firm Maple Finance

Under the agreement, collateral pledged to Maple Finance will be securely held by Zodia Custody

Sid Powell, CEO of Maple Finance (Maple Finance)

Finance

Ethereum Builder Consensys Buys Wallet Guard to Strengthen MetaMask Security

Consensys has been active in the acquisition trail, last year buying blockchain microstructure designer Special Mechanisms Group and blockchain notifications service HAL, and wallet firm MyCrypto in 2022.

Joe Lubin, Founder and CEO of Consensys, MetaMask's developer, speaks at Consensus 2024 by CoinDesk. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk/Suzanne Cordiero)

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Worldcoin Hires Former Google, X and Apple Execs to Beef Up Privacy, Security

Tools for Humanity (TFH), a contributor to the Worldcoin project, hired four executives to advance its mission to ensure a more just economic system, the company said on Tuesday.

An inside view of the Orb, Worldcoin's custom hardware that makes cryptographic IDs based on iris scans. (Worldcoin)

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Circle Snags First Stablecoin License Under EU's New MiCA Crypto Rules

Circle Mint France will issue the euro-denominated EURC stablecoin and USDC in the European Union in compliance with MiCA.

Circle Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte (left) and CEO Jeremy Allaire (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Anchorage Crypto Custody Clients Get Investment Returns Via Deal With Cumberland-Backed Hashnote

Hashnote Harbor will enable clients to earn yields on digital commodities without the assets ever leaving the custody of Anchorage Digital.

Anchorage co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley (CoinDesk)

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Prime Broker Hidden Road Adds Major Crypto Exchanges, Expands Use of BlackRock’s BUIDL Token

Hidden Road is now integrated with Coinbase International Exchange, OKX, Deribit, Bitfinex, AsiaNext, SIX Digital Exchange and Bullish.

Michael Higgins, global head of business development at Hidden Road (Hidden Road)

Finance

Crypto Execution-Only Platform Crossover Markets Raises $12M

The Series A round was led by Illuminate Financial and DRW Venture Capital.

Crossover Markets cofounders (left to right): Anthony Mazzarese (CCO),  Brandon Mulvihill (CEO),  Vladislav Rysin (CTO) (Crossover Markets)

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Kraken’s Derivatives Arm Joins Copper’s Crypto Settlement Network

Copper’s ClearLoop provides institutions with connectivity to OKX, Bybit, Deribit, BIT, Gate.io, Bitfinex, Bitget and PowerTrade, with Bitstamp and Bitmart soon to go live.

(l-r) Zodia Custody CEO Julian Sawyer, Kraken MTF CEO Mark Jennings, Komainu COO Suzanne Hubble (AIM Summit)