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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Мнение

The UK has finally shown it’s serious about crypto

Several recent regulatory steps indicate the UK might finally stop dragging its feet when it comes to crypto, argues Wirex CEO Chet Shah.

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Технологии

Ethereum's newest nonprofit wants to become Wall Street's guide to crypto

In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we’re digging into Ethereum Institutional, a new nonprofit aimed at educating financial institutions and banks about Ethereum.

New York Stock Exchange (Getty Images/xPACIFICA)

Финансы

Aave rolls out vaults for yield-hungry fintech investors

Aave's new Stable Vaults product lets wallets, exchanges and payment apps offer yields on stablecoin deposits

Stani Kulechov, Aave Labs (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Мнение

Age verification is the surveillance nobody voted for

KOSA and Chat Control both retreated on their most-criticized measures this week, but both kept mandatory age verification, the quiet mechanism that turns anonymous browsing into identified browsing for all of us, argues Billions CEO Evin McMullen.

Surveillance camera (Getty Images/fhm)

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Рынки

Crypto VC Paradigm launches $1.2 billion AI fund as it broadens beyond digital assets

The firm's latest fund backs AI and robotics startups but leadership says it remains committed to crypto investing.

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Финансы

Dinari, tZERO join forces on turnkey platform for tokenized U.S. equities

The move comes as firms race to build the infrastructure for blockchain-based stocks and debate how tokenized stocks should work.

Dinari co-founder and CEO Gabe Otte (Dinari)

Web3

BNB Chain is building a new layer-1 for high-frequency trading and AI agents

The network aims to process over 100,000 transactions per second by streaming them directly, eliminating public queues to make trades faster and more secure.

AI chip (Igor Omilaev/Unsplash)

Рынки

Analysts see more upside for SpaceX as post-IPO research begins

Major brokerages initiated coverage on Tuesday with mostly buy ratings following the company's $75 billion June IPO.

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Рынки

Bitcoin, XRP draw Japanese firms as weak yen drives treasury diversification

SBI VC Trade says corporate demand for crypto is rising as a weak yen pushes firms to diversify reserves, part of a run that took its registered accounts past 2 million.

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Финансы

Circle’s USDC is leaving Tether behind in the stablecoin volume race, new data from Visa shows

As Wall Street banks adopt digital currencies for faster settlements, overall trading volume spiked 63% in just a single month.

Visa offices. (Media/Visa)