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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Finance

Credit Suisse Creates Ethereum-Based Shares in Swiss Resort

The bank is working with Swiss crypto custody and trading platform Taurus on the project.

Swiss Alps (Piotr Guzik/Unsplash)

Finance

R3, Once Banking’s Blockchain Bet, Is Spinning Up a DeFi Token

As DeFi looks to compliance, “enterprise blockchain” sees an opportunity.

R3

Finance

Switzerland’s SEBA Bank Snags First FINMA License for Liquid Crypto Funds

Easy in, easy out. SEBA Bank CEO Guido Buehler thinks the license will attract more investment.

Zurich, Switzerland (Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Revolut to Launch Crypto Token: Sources

The timing is subject to approval from U.K. regulators, according to one of the sources.

Revolut CEO Nikolay Storonsky (Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Leads $5M Bet on Euro Stablecoin Startup Angle

Angle is looking to quell the dollar’s dominance in the stablecoin market.

(Jeremy Bezanger/Unsplash)

Finance

Social Token Site Roll Gets Boost With $10M Series A Led by IOSG Ventures

The aim is to become the “Stripe for social tokens,” said CEO Bradley Miles.

NFT collector WhaleShark has one of Roll's leading tokens. (NOAA/Unsplash)

Finance

Institutional DeFi Push Continues as Ethereum Scaler Nahmii Launches Mainnet

The project’s $8 million funding round included Sam Cassatt’s Aligned Capital and Kavita Gupta’s Delta Fund.

Nahmii aims to boost Ethereum's speed. (Marc-Olivier Jodoin/Unsplash)

Finance

Blockchain Startup Swash Raises $4M to Make Data Monetization Click

The funding round was led by KuCoin, Outlier Ventures and Streamr.

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Finance

Why Civic Technologies Is Building DeFi Identity Tools on Solana

Solrise Finance will host the Civic Pass, which aims to make DeFi chime with institutions.

Civic Technologies CEO Chris Hart (Civic)

Finance

Get Ready for Investor Fan Tokens: Polychain Backs Prysm’s Approach to ‘Social Investing’

The platform aims to let new traders follow “the best investors in DeFi.”

Prysm founders Thomas Scaria (left) and Shelby Thomas (Prysm)