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

Former Robinhood Crypto COO Tanya Denisova joins stablecoin issuer Agora as head of operations

The former Robinhood Crypto executive will oversee operations as Agora scales its rapidly growing AUSD stablecoin business.

Agora CEO Nick van Eck

Policy

U.S. Senate passes housing bill that carries four-year ban on a Fed CBDC

The idea of a U.S. central bank digital currency — though little more than a research topic at the Federal Reserve — may be getting formally blocked.

U.S. Capitol Building (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Securitize and tZERO clash over patents as race to bring Wall Street onchain heats up

tZERO and Securitize are squaring off over tokenization patents as the market attracts more of Wall Street's attention.

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo at ETHConf 2026 (Margaux Nijkerk/ CoinDesk)

Finance

Ether’s biggest corporate holders back new Ethereum research hub

Ethlabs was formed with support from SharpLink, Bitmine and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin as the network's development is expanding beyond the Ethereum Foundation.

Joe Lubin speaking at Consensus 2024 by CoinDesk. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk/Suzanne Cordiero)

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Tech

Ethereum Foundation talent exodus sparks fresh debate over leadership

The Ethereum community is once again debating the future of the foundation after co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang announced she would step down.

Hsiao-Wei Wang at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Anchorage aims to bring banks onchain with new tokenized deposit platform

The crypto bank aims to help financial institutions offer round-the-clock payments and settlement without replacing their core systems.

Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley

Finance

MoneyGram joins Solana as validator amid stablecoin payment push

The remittances firm has become a validator on the Solana blockchain, helping process and secure transactions as it expands its stablecoin payments strategy.

Anthony Soohoo, Chairman and CEO of MoneyGram, speaking at Consensus 2026 (CoinDesk)

Tech

Bitcoin layer-2s face a bear-market reality check

Botanix's shutdown has raised an uncomfortable question for Bitcoin builders: Does the market actually want programmable BTC, or just a better way to borrow, lend and earn yield on it?

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Opinion

The Base token should give holders voting power over Coinbase itself

If BASE becomes economically tied to COIN, the token would trade not as a memeified L2 token, but as a globally accessible representation of equity-like value.

Coinbase app on a mobile phone screen (appshunter.io/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

Want TradFi to embrace tokenization? Crypto's distribution strategy must mature

The crypto industry assumes institutions discover products the way retail traders do: stumbling across them on Twitter, experimenting quickly, and iterating in public. But that's not how asset allocators at pension funds or family offices operate, argues Dean Khan Dhillon, head of growth at RWA.xyz.

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