Jamie Crawley

Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.

Jamie Crawley

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Finance

Aave-Developed Lens Protocol Raises $15M to Expand 'Social Layer' of Web3

Uniswap CEO Hayden Adams, OpenSea co-founder Alex Atallah, entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal joined the round as angel investors.

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Policy

Australia's Commonwealth Bank Will Partially Restrict Payments to Crypto Exchanges

The Australian bank announced on Thursday that will decline "certain payments" to crypto exchanges or hold them for a period of 24 hours

Australian dollars (Squirrel photos/Pixabay)

Web3

Health and Fitness App Sweat Economy to Vote on 'Reallocating' 2.5B Inactive Tokens

The 2.5 billion “abandoned” SWEAT tokens, which constitute around 13% of the total supply, were allocated to users at the app's conception last September.

STEPN rewards runners and walkers with crypto. (Raúl González/Flickr)

Finance

Bitcoin-Denominated Life Insurance Provider Sets Up Shop With $19M Funding

Meanwhile's target audience is U.S. citizens with large BTC holdings, an audience from which it has "seen a lot of early demand."

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Finance

Bankers Shopping FTX's 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars' Stake in AI Startup: Report

At the time of its bankruptcy last November, FTX may have owned as much as $500 million worth of stock in Anthropic, the creator of ChatGPT rival Claude.

(Markus Spiske/Unsplash)

Finance

Zodia Custody to Offer Staking to Institutional Clients Through Blockdaemon

The firm said it is the first bank-owned custodian to offer staking services to institutional clients.

Standard Chartered, majority owner of Zodia Custody. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Binance Executive Controlled Bank Accounts Belonging to U.S. Wing in 2019-20: Reuters

Binance.US had claimed to be independent from Binance at the time.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

JPMorgan, 6 Indian Banks to Settle Dollar Trades on Onyx Blockchain System: Bloomberg

The aim of the project is to settle dollar trades in real time around the clock as opposed to over a matter of days and only during the working week

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Finance

Crypto Insurer Evertas’ Coverage Limit Increased to $420M: Reuters

London-based Arch Insurance International, a syndicate member of Lloyd's of London, has authorized Evertas to increase its coverage limit for a single policy for crypto custodians and exchanges

Insurance (stevepb/Pixabay)

Finance

Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank-Backed Taurus Deploys on Polygon Blockchain

The Swiss firm aims to allow financial institutions and corporates to issue tokenized assets on the Ethereum layer 2 network.

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