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

Alameda Leads $40M Round in ‘DeFi Prime Brokerage,’ Plans Maps.me Integration

The firm’s earlier investment in a travel app starts making sense.

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Finance

Crypto Custody Platform Koine Goes Into Insolvency

The firm’s technology stack is now available for purchase.

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Finance

BNY Mellon Said to Hire Fireblocks for Bitcoin Custody Service

Earlier this month, America’s oldest bank said it was using outside partners for its crypto custody service but did not name names.

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Finance

Libra Co-Creator's VC Firm Co-Leads $12M Round in ‘Decentralized GitHub’

“Web 3 developers should be building on open protocols,” NFX General Partner Morgan Beller said of Radicle, a platform for crypto-native code collaboration.

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Policy

‘Evil VASP’ Simulation Preps Crypto Exchanges for FATF Travel Rule

Backed by CipherTrace, TRISA looks to get virtual asset service providers (VASPs) ready for new anti-money laundering rules.

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Finance

Coinbase, Readying for Public Listing, Gets $77B Valuation From Nasdaq Private Market

Last week’s settlement price of $303 per share would make Coinbase bigger than NYSE-owner ICE.

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Finance

Diem Stablecoin Prepares for Liftoff With Fireblocks Custody Partnership

The rebranded Libra network aims to come out with an initial product around the end of this quarter, with help from Fireblocks and First Digital Assets.

Diem Association Executive Vice President Dante Disparte

Finance

DeFi Insurer Nexus Mutual Raises $2.7M in NXM Token Sale

The firm aims to sell over $1 billion worth of cover in 2021 spread across at least 30 protocols.

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Finance

ING Bank-Backed Crypto Trade Platform Pyctor Is Raising Money

The digital assets post-trade collaboration also involves Citi, State Street, UBS and others.

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