Cheyenne Ligon

Cheyenne is a features and opinions editor at CoinDesk. Previously, she covered U.S. policy and regulation, with a focus on court proceedings and crime. She was part of the Gerald Loeb award-winning team that chronicled the downfall of FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried. She has no significant crypto holdings.

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Finance

Pokémon cards are becoming multibillion dollar market. Crypto wants to fix how they trade

Collectors are spending millions on trading cards, while blockchain startups are turning physical Pokémon cards into digital assets. The harder task is creating enough liquidity to compete with established marketplaces.

Pokemon cards are getting tokenized. (Getty Images)

Finance

Inside stablecoin firm BVNK’s journey to a $1.8B acquisition by Mastercard

Early BVNK investor Concentric shares a fascinating inside view on the stablecoin startup’s journey and the eventual Mastercard deal.

MasterCard logo on a credit card (Getty Images/jbk_photography)

Finance

Hyperliquid’s RWA perps boom is eating into the revenue that backs HYPE

Revenue has fallen four quarters running while open interest hit a record high. The gap is a fee-sharing program that hands half the platform's volume to outside builders.

(Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

Finance

Crypto is going through a massive dot-com style shakeout as over 100 projects fold in 2026

An industry-wide reckoning is weeding out unsustainable startups, leaving behind only the protocols with real cash flow and actual users.

A trader sits in front of multiple screens holding his head. (Unsplash+/Getty Images)

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Tech

Bitcoin hits block 961,632 as the controversial BIP-110 soft fork attempt begins

The proposal has scant support from bitcoin miners and influential commentators have also voiced their opposition.

Fork in road (Beth MacDonald/Unsplash)

Finance

Hardware wallet sales in Russia more than double as new crypto rules near

Wildberries’ average price for hardware wallets fell 13% to 7,900 rubles, and M.Video broadened its range of products, though neither retailer identified the driving force behind the renewed demand.

Crypto hardware wallets (rc.xyz NFT gallery/Unsplash)

Finance

Brazil's central bank orders exchanges to delay large crypto transfers abroad

The rule applies to transfers above $10,000 and smaller transactions flagged as risky by exchanges.

Brazil's flag (Rafaela Biazi/Unsplash)

Markets

Why trillion-dollar asset manager T. Rowe Price put memecoins in its crypto ETF

The $1.9 trillion asset manager says excluding established memecoins on principle would undermine its active approach to crypto investing.

T. Rowe Price head of digital assets Blue Macellari at Consensus Miami. (CoinDesk)

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Tech

New XRP Ledger amendments target $530 million in tokenized Wall Street assets

A new XRPL amendment proposal would let institutions encrypt token balances and transfer amounts while still giving issuers, auditors and regulators selective access.

A man seated on a sofa works on a laptop under a Ripple Labs sign. (Ripple Labs)

Finance

Trump-Backed American Bitcoin director Justin Mateen buys nearly $2 million of ABTC stock

Mateen purchased more than 306,000 shares across two days following the company's quarterly earnings, lifting his stake to more than 492,000 shares.

American Bitcoin board member Justin Mateen.