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

Blockchain Firm Crossmint Used by Adidas, Red Bull Raises $23.6M in Funding

Ribbit Capital led the investment round with additional participation from Franklin Templeton, Nyca, First Round, and Lightspeed Faction.

Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Finance

Halliday Raises $20M for AI Protocol to Eliminate Writing Smart Contracts for DeFi

The Series A investment was led by venture capital giant a16z's crypto arm, following a $6 million seed round in 2022.

16:9 Halliday CEO Griffin Dunaif (Halliday)

Policy

ECB's Villeroy Says U.S. Crypto Support Could Trigger Next Financial Emergency

The U.S. "risks sinning through negligence," Villeroy said in an interview with French newspaper La Tribune Dimanche

 Banque de France's Governor François Villeroy de Galhau (Image via Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

Solv Raises $10M for Bitcoin Reserve Offering to Drive Institutional BTC Finance Adoption

Solv is attempting to offer an "on-chain MicroStrategy" model, referencing the Michael Saylor-founded software company that now owns nearly 500,000 BTC

Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper on Halloween Day in 2008. (Jonathan Borba/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

Lawyer Requests Interpol Red Notice for Libra Founder Hayden Davis: Report

Attorney Gregorio Dalbon raised the procedural risk of U.S. citizen Davis remaining at large and of his financial resources allowing him to stay in hiding

Argentina has created a national committee to help develop blockchain technology. (Unsplash)

Tech

Binance Labs-Backed Network Hemi Debuts $440M Mainnet to 'Unify' Bitcoin, Ethereum

Hemi Labs has signed up dozens of protocols, including decentralized exchange (DEX) Sushi, liquid staking token pumpBTC and oracles RedStone and Pyth.

Photo of Jeff Garzik, co-founder of Hemi Labs

Tech

Ethereum L2 Starknet Seeks 'Bitcoin's DeFi Take-Off Moment' With BTC Wallet Xverse

The aim is to provide a Bitcoin DeFi experience using trust assumptions as the next big thing to zero-knowledge proofs until such a time that OP_CAT is adopted

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

Tech

Bitcoin Ordinals Project Taproot Wizards Plans Long-Awaited Sale of Signature NFTs

The Wizards were inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain two years ago and are now being made available for sale

TaprootWizards.com NFT (ordinals.com)

Markets

VanEck Registers Avalanche ETF in Delaware as Altcoin Fund Registry Heats Up

The New York-headquartered company registered the "VanEck Avalanche ETF" on March 10

Avalanche Blockchain 'Bug' Wreaks Havoc on Digital Transactions

Tech

Facebook-Developed MoveVM Gets Closer to Ethereum Deployment With Public Mainnet Beta Launch

The mainnet launches with over $233 million worth of BTC, ETH and native asset MOVE in liquidity raised through Movement's Cornucopia program

Movement Labs co-founders Cooper Scanlon and Rushi Manche (Movement Labs)