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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.

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Finance

Ethereum Hub ConsenSys Raises $65M From JPMorgan, Mastercard, UBS, Others

ConsenSys has multi-year commercial arrangements with JPMorgan and Mastercard, and commercial activity happening with UBS, said founder Joe Lubin.

Apr 13, 2021

ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin

Finance

How the Coveted 'COIN' Ticker Found Its Way to Coinbase

London-listed Coinsilium has been trading under COIN since 2015. The Winklevoss twins registered the symbol for their proposed bitcoin ETF back in 2014. How did Coinbase land it in 2021?

Apr 12, 2021

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaks at CoinDesk's Consensus 2019.

Finance

Rap Icon Nas Could Net $100M When Coinbase Lists on Nasdaq

Nasir Jones’ QueensBridge Venture Partners invested in 2013. A source familiar with the matter confirmed QueensBridge is still on the Coinbase cap table.

Apr 12, 2021

Nas performs in Oakland, Calif., Feb. 21, 2020.

Finance

Communitas Capital's 'Infrastructure-First' Investing Approach Is Paying Off With Coinbase and Others

Ex-Reuters CEO Tom Glocer was an angel investor in Coinbase’s 2015 Series C round. Here are the other crypto VC bets his Communitas Capital is making.

Apr 9, 2021

Communitas Capital co-founder Tom Glocer

Finance

Anchorage Is Supporting DeFi Governance Token TRIBE Despite Its FEI Troubles

The TRIBE governance token’s FEI stablecoin project recently saw whales making gains and retail getting rekt.

Apr 8, 2021

Anchorage CEO Nathan McCauley

Finance

State Street May Start Trading Crypto on Platform It's Helping Build

The plan is to transpose FX infrastructure to the crypto space via a bank-led consortium.

Apr 8, 2021

State Street, State Street Corporation

Finance

How Coinbase's Wild Earnings Stack Up Against Normie Financial Firms

The crypto exchange’s $1.8 billion in quarterly revenue trounced the $1.3 billion earned in all of 2020. Can Coinbase go up from here or will future COIN holders get rekt?

Apr 7, 2021

Coinbase on phone

Finance

Cardano Venture Fund Makes First Investment: $500K in Payments Firm COTI

Rather than reinventing DeFi on a faster version of Ethereum, Cardano is doing something different, said COTI CEO Shahaf Bar-Geffen.

Apr 6, 2021

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson

Finance

Paxos Trumpets Same-Day Shares Settlement Using Blockchain

Instinet and Credit Suisse helped hit the “T+0” settlement cycle for U.S. equities.

Apr 6, 2021

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Finance

Coinbase's COIN Stock to Go Live on Nasdaq April 14

The COIN ticker is coming to public markets soon, Coinbase announced Thursday.

Apr 1, 2021

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
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