Ian Allison

Senior Reporter

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.

Latest from Ian Allison

Finance

Crypto Gets Another 'Neighborhood Watch' to Guard Against Hacks

Justine Bone, a cybersecurity firebrand whose research led to recalls of half a million faulty pacemakers, leads the soon-to-launch information-sharing and analysis center (ISAC) for crypto firms.

May 6, 2024

Justine Bone, executive director of Crypto ISAC.

Finance

MoonPay Users Can Now Buy Crypto Via PayPal

The partnership means MoonPay users in the U.S. can seamlessly buy crypto with PayPal through wallet transfer, bank transfer, and debit card transactions, according to a press release.

May 2, 2024

Finance

BlackRock Sees Sovereign Wealth Funds, Pensions Coming to Bitcoin ETFs

The asset manager has been helping educate pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds about the new spot bitcoin ETF products, BlackRock’s head of digital assets said.

May 2, 2024

Tech

Blockchain Sleuth Elliptic Explores AI and Anti-Money Laundering Using 200M Bitcoin Transactions

Patterns of illicit activity involving groups of bitcoin nodes and chains of transactions are described in a research paper by Elliptic and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.

May 1, 2024

Elliptic co-founder Tom Robinson (center) is one of the authors of the AI research paper (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Paradigm Special Counsel Has Left the Crypto-Focused VC Firm

Rodrigo Seira has rejoined Cooley LLP, the law firm where he worked previously, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Apr 30, 2024

Paradigm co-founder Fred Ehrsam (Brady Dale/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Fireblocks Now Offers DeFi Threat Detection for Institutions

The dApp Protection and Transaction Simulation products can check decentralized applications across 40+ blockchains via WalletConnect, Fireblocks’ browser extension, and MetaMask Institutional.

Apr 24, 2024