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

Polkadot Builder Parity Technologies Adds 3 Executives

The new executives are Chief Operating Officer Eran Barak, Chief Marketing Officer Peter Ruchatz and Chief Financial Officer Fahmi Syed.

Jul 4, 2022

The Polkadot pavilion on the Promenade at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Finance

Troubled Crypto Lender Babel Finance Looking to Hire Restructuring Specialist Houlihan Lokey: Sources

The company is reportedly in the process of signing an engagement letter with the investment banking firm.

Jul 1, 2022

Finance

Societe Generale Selects Swiss Crypto Custody Specialist Metaco for Security Token Push

Big banks and custodians have entered the “FOMO” stage when it comes to crypto, said Metaco CEO Adrien Treccani.

Jun 30, 2022

From left to right: Craig Perrin, vice president of sales at Metaco; Seamus Donoghue, vice president of strategic alliances at Metaco; Adrien Treccani, CEO and founder of Metaco;
Alexandre Fleury, co-head of global markets activities, global head of equities at Societe Generale; and Jean-Marc Stenger, CEO at Societe Generale-Forge

Finance

Genesis Faces ‘Hundreds of Millions’ in Losses as 3AC Exposure Swamps Crypto Lenders: Sources

The DCG-owned trading colossus is said to have suffered nine-figure losses partly through exposure to Three Arrows Capital and Babel Finance.

Jun 29, 2022

Genesis Trading Michael Moro at the Crypto Bahamas event in April 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Meet ‘Frequency,’ Polkadot’s New Decentralized Social Media Parachain

The team behind Project Liberty’s Decentralized Social Network Protocol unveiled the newly named parachain at Polkadot Decoded.

Jun 29, 2022

Tech

Polkadot Chief Gavin Wood Announces Blockchain Governance Upgrade

The platform's “Gov2” is set to launch on Kusama “imminently,” following a final professional audit of its code, he said.

Jun 29, 2022

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood (Parity Technologies)

Finance

Alan Howard-Backed Cryptography Investor Geometry Emerges From Stealth

Tom Walton-Pocock, the former CEO of zero-knowledge proofs shop Aztec, is heading up Geometry.

Jun 28, 2022

Finance

Coinbase Adds Support for On-Chain Polygon and Solana Transactions

“Over time, we’ll add support for more tokens and more networks,” Coinbase said.

Jun 23, 2022

A look at the new Coinbase Wallet (Coinbase)

Finance

Citibank Chooses Swiss Firm Metaco for Digital Asset Custody

The custody platform integration is with Securities Services and will focus on tokenized securities to begin with.

Jun 22, 2022

Finance

DeFi Moves Into Real Estate With Tower Fund and Teller Protocol Partnership

The timing for fully transparent DeFi opportunities couldn’t be better, according to Teller CEO Ryan Berkun.

Jun 21, 2022

Teller Protocol hopes to bring DeFi to commercial real estate projects such as multifamily buildings. (Dan Reynolds Photography/Getty Images)