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

Arianee, Early Pioneer of NFTs for Luxury Provenance, Raises $9.5M

Arianee’s raise marks the first time a fund linked to the French government has bought into blockchain tokens.

Arianee works with Breitling.

Finance

Israeli Pension Giant Put $100M Into Grayscale Bitcoin Trust: Report

Altshuler Shaham made the investment in GBTC in the second half of last year, when bitcoin was trading at around $21,000.

Tel Aviv, Israel

Finance

Shyft Network Wraps Token Sale Ahead of FATF 'Travel Rule' Implementation

Backed by BlockTower and others, the shyft token helps a decentralized network of exchanges comply with anti-money laundering rules.

Shyft Network co-founder Joseph Weinberg

Policy

Seychelles Regulator Issues Investor Alert Over Crypto Exchange Huobi Global

Huobi told CoinDesk the entity is within the company group.

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Finance

Next Step for Institutional DeFi? Institutional NFTs

Ethereum-friendly custody firm Trustology is now supporting NFTs for lending and collateralizing.

Trustology CEO Alex Batlin

Markets

PayPal Confirms It's Buying Crypto Security Firm Curv

The payments giant said Curv will help it "accelerate and expand its initiatives to support cryptocurrencies and digital assets."

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Finance

JPMorgan Posts 34 Blockchain Jobs as It Beefs Up JPM Coin

A search for “blockchain” on JPMorgan’s career pages actually brings up 56 open positions, with 34 including the tech in the job title.

JPMorgan

Policy

Blockchain Sleuth Says OKEx, Huobi Stonewalled Him in Child Porn Investigation

"Why would an exchange or any service in this industry that's claiming to want to do the right thing refuse to speak at all?" says CipherBlade's Rich Sanders.

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Finance

DeFi and Staking Insurance Startup Unslashed Raises $2M

Experimental crypto zones like DeFi and staking are seeing an influx of insurance products, but not as we know it.

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Finance

Crypto Wallet Exodus Seeks SEC Permission to Tokenize Shares, Aims for $75M Raise

Under the terms of an SEC Reg A+ offering, Exodus will accept bitcoin, ether and USDC, and sell equity tokens for $27.42 apiece.

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