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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Opinion

Britain’s Digital ID Push Is Premature and Dangerous

The UK government is moving quickly toward a centralized digital ID system without the technological or legal safeguards to protect against authoritarianism or cybercrime.

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Markets

Ether's 20% Freefall Triggers $1B Liquidation Cascade as Crypto Losses Accelerate

The correction could have more room to run, with ETH potentially falling to as low as $2,700-$2,800, 10x Research's Markus Thielen warned.

Ether (ETH) price (CoinDesk)

Policy

Appeals Court Seems Unmoved by Sam Bankman-Fried’s Claims of an Unfair Trial

The former FTX CEO, who is currently serving a 25-year sentence for fraud, has repeatedly claimed that the crypto exchange was solvent at the time of its bankruptcy.

Sam Bankman-Fried outside court on Feb. 9, 2023 (Liz Napolitano/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Cleaning Up Crypto ATMs Isn’t Anti-Crypto

The louder these companies protest regulation, the clearer it becomes that something’s off, argue Paradigm’s Katie Biber and Dominique Little.

Bitcoin ATMs (John Paul Cuvinar/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Finance

Banco Inter, Chainlink Power Real-Time CBDC Trade Settlement Between Brazil and Hong Kong

The pilot, part of Brazil's Drex initiative, used Chainlink's infrastructure to connect Brazil's Drex network with Hong Kong's Ensemble platform.

Chainlink CEO and co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Opinion

The AWS Outage Shows Why Crypto Can't Keep Relying On Centralized Infrastructure

For an industry that prides itself on decentralization and constantly lauds its benefits, crypto exchanges being so reliant on vulnerable centralized cloud platforms for their own infrastructure feels like hypocrisy, argues Dr. Max Li, founder and CEO of OORT.

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News Analysis

Sam Bankman-Fried's Last Chance? Appeals Court to Hear Arguments on FTX Founder's Retrial Motion Next Week

The FTX founder is looking for a fresh trial on his fraud and conspiracy charges. He's got an uphill battle.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Bitcoin: The Dawn of a New Monetary Era

Seventeen years after Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin to the world, it has grown from a cryptographic experiment into a global movement, argues Tony Yazbeck, co-founder of The Bitcoin Way.

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Markets

Latin American Crypto Exchange Ripio Launches Argentine Peso Stablecoin 'wARS'

The launch follows Ripio's previous release of a tokenized sovereign bond and is part of a broader push to bring real-world assets onto blockchain rails.

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Finance

ARK Invest’s Crypto Exposure Tops $2.15B as Bullish Holdings Rise Across 3 Funds

ARK Invest increased its stake in Bullish by 105,000 shares, worth $5.3 million, to 2.27 million shares valued at $114 million. Its crypto exposure now tops $2.15 billion.

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