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

OranjeBTC to Become Brazil’s Largest Publicly-Traded Bitcoin Treasury Firm With B3 Listing

OranjeBTC, which holds 3,650 BTC, also plans to launch a financial education platform focused on bitcoin and crypto, in addition to its public listing.

Bitcoin News

Opinion

Tokenization Is Finance’s Next ETF Moment, And Wall Street Isn’t Ready

Tokenization of real world assets (RWA) on blockchain rails is not a futuristic thought experiment, argues Nick Cherney, head of innovation at Janus Henderson Investors. It is happening right now.

Close-up of stacked gold bars. (Jingming Pan/Unsplash)

Finance

'Am I Too Late to Invest' in Crypto? Here's What TradFi Is Asking Wall Street Analysts

Jefferies says most institutional investors remain on the sidelines despite growing token infrastructure, but that's changing, and it's a good thing for the industry.

A Wall Street banks's take on crypto. (Midjourney/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Finance

PayPal's $1.3B Stablecoin Expands to 9 New Blockchains With LayerZero Integration

The interoperability protocol is introducing a permissionless version of the token to Aptos, Avalanche, Tron and several other chains.

PayPal logo on iphone screen (Marques Thomas/Unsplash)

Finance

DeFi TVL Rebounds to $170B, Erasing Terra-Era Bear Market Losses

After three years of rebuilding, decentralized finance has returned to pre-Terra levels with more measured growth and rising institutional adoption.

TVL recovery since Terra crash (DefiLlama)

Opinion

The GENIUS Act Is Already Law. Banks Shouldn't Try to Rewrite It Now

Legacy financial firms should embrace competition, not try to kneecap emerging players through anti-innovation regulations, Blockchain Association CEO Summer K. Mersinger argues.

U.S. Congress (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum Faces Validator Bottleneck With 2.5M ETH Awaiting Exit

The backlog pushed exit wait times to more than 46 days on Monday, the longest in Ethereum’s short staking history, dashboards show. The last peak, in August, put the exit queue at 18 days.

(Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Opinion

The Clock Is Ticking on Crypto Market Structure Legislation in the U.S.

The U.S. has the deepest liquidity in crypto markets and is home to some of the largest issuers and exchanges, but without a comprehensive market structure we risk ceding ground to Latin America and Europe, Congressman French Hill argues.

Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk

Finance

Base Explores Issuing Native Token, Says Creator Jesse Pollak

At the BaseCamp event, Jesse Pollak revealed the layer-2 network is considering a native token, though plans remain in early stages.

Jesse Pollak (courtesy Winni Wintermeyer/Coinbase)