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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Policy

VC Giants a16z, Union Square Ventures Get Subpoenaed by New York About Uniswap: Sources

"We don't wish the burden of unnecessary subpoenas on anyone," a spokesperson for Uniswap told CoinDesk.

New York state Attorney General Letitia James (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Switzerland’s Fourth-Biggest Bank ZKB Offers Retail Customers Bitcoin and Ether

ZKB’s new service also allows other Swiss banks to offer customers the trading and custody of cryptocurrencies, with Thurgauer Kantonalbank being the first partner bank to use the service.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Brevan Howard-Backed Tokenization Firm Libre Arrives on NEAR Blockchain

NEAR Protocol’s cross-chain signing feature will allow users on multiple blockchains to transact with Libre’s selection of tokenized credit and hedge funds.

Libre CEO Avtar Sehra (Libre)

Finance

Tokenization Pioneer Centrifuge Unveils Lending Market With Morpho, Coinbase

The institutional real-world asset lending market combines Coinbase’s layer-2 network, Base, and Morpho Vaults using three varieties of tokenized Treasury bills.

Lucas Vogelsang (left) and Base creator Jesse Pollak at the 2023 RWA Summit in New York City. (Centrifuge)

Tech

Crypto Startup Backed by Likes of Dragonfly Aims to Create Market to Trade Airdrop-Related Points

Rumpel Labs seeking to create efficient secondary markets, going live in mid-September.

Josh Levine (left), co-founder & CTO; Kenton Prescott, co-founder & CEO (Rumpel Labs)

Finance

Crypto Asset Manager Grayscale Offers AVAX Token Investment in New Avalanche Trust

The provider of bitcoin and ether ETFs now offers more than 20 crypto investment products.

Grayscale ad (Grayscale)

Finance

Stablecoin Issuing System M^0 Employs Fireblocks for Crypto Custody

M^0 allows stablecoin issuers to incentivize distributors, liquidity providers and so on by programmatically sharing yield among an ecosystem of users.

DeFi, T-bill, Yield, Paradigm

Finance

State Street Selects Taurus for Crypto Custody, Tokenization

The bank will start with tokenization and plans to offer digital asset custody once the U.S. regulatory environment improves.

State Street building in London (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Lending Firm Morpho Bags $50M in Funding Round Led by Ribbit Capital

The strategic funding round included a16z, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Pantera and Brevan Howard.

Paul Frambot, CEO Morpho Labs (Morpho)

Finance

Lloyd’s of London-Backed Insurance Policies Can Now Be Paid for in Crypto on Ethereum

Cryptocurrency insurance underwriter Evertas, a Lloyd’s coverholder, has teamed up with smart contract-based insurance marketplace Nayms to offer the on-chain policies.

Inside the Lloyd's of London insurance market. (Lloyd's of London)