Benjamin Schiller

Ben Schiller is a senior adviser at Miden, a privacy-focused blockchain. He was a CoinDesk managing editor from 2019 to 2025, and, before that, a staff writer at Fast Company.

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News Analysis

Weekly Recap: Bitcoin’s Tumble and the SEC’s Retreat

Plus: Bybit fallout, stablecoin wrangling, Ethereum Foundation changes.

Mark Toshiro Uyeda, acting chair of the SEC  (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Opinion

Tokenized Assets Can Redefine Portfolio Management

Tokenizing real-world assets on a blockchain generates the kind of daily, market-derived data that has traditionally been reserved for a narrow set of assets, says EY’s Paul Brody.

Shubham Dhage

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Consensus EasyA Hackathon Winners: AI Agents, Gaming, Trading, Payments, NFT Platforms

Hackathon for Consensus Hong Kong brought out some of the most innovative the early stage projects that could drive the Web3 world forward.

Consensus HK EasyA Hackathon (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Tech

The Protocol: Ethereum’s Pectra Goes Live on Testnet

Also: Avalanche Visa card launched; EF executive director leaving; hackers using fake GitHub to steal bitcoin.

Hands Mosh

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Finance

Wingbits to Launch Satellite to Boost Flight Tracking Accuracy

The Swedish DePIN startup is taking on incumbents like FlightAware and Flightradar24 with a decentralized approach that rewards hobbyist data collectors.

Rocket taking off. (NASA, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Creator of Controversial LIBRA Memecoin Introduced MELANIA, Says He Sniped Both Tokens

Hayden Davis said he refunded $5 million to Dave Portnoy who lost money on LIBRA.

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Markets

Ether ETFs Register $393M in Inflows This Month as Crypto Investors Turn Their Back on Bitcoin

Investors pivot to ether ETFs as Ethereum's impending Pectra upgrade is expected to bode well for cryptocurrency.

A pen lies on top of a spreadsheet printout (steinarhovland/Pixabay)

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Finance

Brevan Howard Digital Deploys $20M on Ethereum-Based Kinto in Institutional DeFi Push

The investment enables participation in Kinto’s mining program, which rewards asset deposits on the chain with token emission.

Ramon Recuero, Kinto CEO and co-founder (Kinto)

CoinDesk News

El Salvador Dispatch: How Bitcoin Taught a Nation to Dream

The Central American nation is on a roll. This year’s Plan B conference was electric, featuring famous speakers from abroad as well as native Spanish content.

Sunset in San Salvador