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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Ethereum DeFi Staple MakerDAO Adds StarkNet Bridge in First Step Toward Multi-Chain

Rebuilding Maker on StarkNet involves four phases, starting with a simple bridge that goes live on April 28.

A still from a video explaining how MakerDAO works. (Brady Dale/CoinDesk)

Finance

Tether’s USDT Stablecoin Enters Polkadot Ecosystem With Kusama Launch

Kusama becomes the tenth blockchain to support USDT, which already has more than $80 billion in circulation.

An installation in Berlin, Germany, by the polkadot-inspired artist Yayoi Kusama, after whom the Polkadot blockchain's canary network is named. (Adam Berry/Getty Images)

Finance

Fireblocks and Fintech Major FIS Bring DeFi to Capital Markets

FIS’s client list of 6,400 asset managers, banks and brokers will have access to platforms like Aave Arc with more institution-friendly DeFi pathways to come.

Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Avalanche-Based Blockbuster Game Shrapnel Completes $7M Token Sale

Games studio Neon has raised $17.5 million so far to bring Shrapnel to Avalanche.

An image from game studio Neon’s Shrapnel. (Neon)

Finance

XRP Army Drives Bumper Sales in Ripple Stock Despite SEC Probe

Since launching two years ago, tech equity platform Linqto has sold $50 million in private shares of Ripple Labs.

(Mark Peterson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Finance

ConsenSys Settles Lawsuit With Former Venture Capital Chief Kavita Gupta

The ugly spat involved a pair of dueling lawsuits.

The main entrance of ConsenSys's Brooklyn, N.Y., headquarters as seen in 2018. (Holly Pickett/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Ethereum Scaler Boba Network Valued at $1.5B in $45M Series A

In addition to easing Ethereum’s transaction load, Boba injects off-chain machine learning into the contracts powering DeFi.

(Rosalind Chang/Unsplash)

Finance

FCA Friction Said to Spook Investors Over Copper’s Reported $500M Raise

Temporary registration status from the U.K.’s markets regulator has caused some VC firms to back out or downsize their checks, sources say.

(Karim Ghantous/Unsplash)

Finance

BitMEX CEO, CFO's Bid for German Bank Fails: Report

The deal, which was expected to complete later this year, was called off by a mutual agreement, according to reports.

Munich, Germany. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Finance

Greener Bitcoin Mining Could Be China’s ‘Trillion-Dollar Present’ to the US

Can change come fast enough for an ESG-embattled mining industry?

A Bitfury mine in Mo i Rana, Norway. The mine is 90% powered by hydroelectricity and employs five locals. (Bitfury)