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

Lido Finance Warns Leverage Is a ‘Hell of a Drug’

After integrating with DeFi major Aave, Lido saw leverage kick up a gear and nudged some larger players to unwind. But plenty of people didn’t.

Jun 17, 2022

Finance

JPMorgan Wants to Bring Trillions of Dollars of Tokenized Assets to DeFi

The bank’s recent tokenization of money market funds with BlackRock dovetails with an institutional DeFi project led by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Jun 11, 2022

JPMorgan has ambitious plans for institutional DeFi. (Getty Images)

Finance

Tesla Board Member Kimbal Musk Says Most DAOs Are Not Actually Decentralized

“Frankly, I think most DAOs are designed to allow the founders to maintain control,” said the founder of food justice charity Big Green DAO.

Jun 10, 2022

Kimbal Musk, Co-Founder & CEO, Big Green, questioned DAOs at Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas. (Christian Barrett/CoinDesk)

Finance

PayPal's Move to Allow Crypto Transfers to External Wallets the First Step Away From Fiat World, CEO Says

The payment services giant will allow users to turn crypto into fiat for use at any one of 35 million merchant accounts.

Jun 10, 2022

PayPal CEO Dan Schulman (Geoffroy van der Hasselt/Getty Images)

Finance

American Express Adds First Crypto Product With Abra Rewards Card

A long time in the making, the Abra Crypto Card will be the first Amex cryptocurrency product, said Abra CEO Bill Barhydt.

Jun 10, 2022

American Express (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Finance

Fidelity’s Abby Johnson Reaffirms Crypto Commitment in Bear Market

The CEO sees opportunities to buy on a dip.

Jun 10, 2022

Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson (CoinDesk/Shutterstock)

Finance

Ocean Protocol Leans on NFTs to Drive Decentralized Data Markets

Version 4 of Ocean Protocol uses NFTs for more flexible handling and the monetization of curated data sets.

Jun 8, 2022

Ocean is rolling out version 4 of its network. (Anastasia Taioglou/Unsplash)

Finance

Citadel Securities Is Building a Crypto Trading Marketplace With Virtu Financial: Sources

The effort also includes Citadel’s recent VC backers, Sequoia and Paradigm, with more trading firms to come, according to a source familiar with the plans.

Jun 7, 2022

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin (Larry Busacca/Getty Images for The New York Times)

Finance

PayPal Ups Crypto Push: Users Can Now Move Coins to Other Wallets and Exchanges

PayPal crypto chief Jose Fernandez da Ponte said plans to let users move their crypto holdings to third-party wallets have been in the works since 2021.

Jun 7, 2022

PayPal is now allowing its users to transfer coins from its platform to other wallets and exchanges. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Finance

Binance.US Launches Crypto Staking Assault on Rivals Coinbase and Gemini

CEO Brian Shroder also said he would happily hire any of Coinbase’s disappointed applicants or those recently laid off by Gemini.

Jun 7, 2022

Binance.US CEO Brian Shroder (Binance.US)