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

MiCA Won’t Save Us From a Stablecoin Crisis. It Might Be Building One

MiCA deserves credit for imposing order on chaos, but its structure rests on a dangerous assumption: that proof-of-reserves equals proof-of-stability, argues Dr. Daniel D’Alvia. It does not.

The EU seeks to put savings caps on the digital euro.

Opinion

The Bitcoin White Paper Offered a Blueprint for a More Reliable Financial System

Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper did not describe the end of Bitcoin’s development but the beginning, argues Voltage’s Bobby Shell.

Heading of Bitcoin Whitepaper

Markets

Chainlink's LINK Drops 8% Below Support Despite Largest Token Buyback Since August

The oracle network's token succumbed to the broader crypto market weakness, even though adoption continues growing with a recent Ondo partnership.

Chainlink Falls 8% Below $17 as Institutional Selling Breaks Key Support Amid High Volume

Opinion

Crypto Privacy Shouldn't Be a Purity Test

By refusing to compromise on privacy, crypto risks marginalizing itself. There may be a path forward that respects both individual choice and practical constraints, says Rob Viglione, CEO of Horizen Labs.

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Opinion

Georgia's ‘Shadow Ruler’ Is Trying to Claw Back a Bitcoin Fortune Worth $1B

Ten years ago, he declined a credible offer to mine bitcoin, missing out on an opportunity to make billions. Now that his personal fortune is dwindling, Bidzina Ivanishvili is going to extreme lengths to get his hands on the bitcoin he sees as rightfully his.

Bidzina Ivanishvili (Photo by Nicolo Vincenzo Malvestuto/Getty Images)

Tech

Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade Completes Final Hoodi Test Ahead of Mainnet Launch

With all three tests done, developers will finalize the date that Fusaka will go live on mainnet, tentatively aiming for December 3.

The forthcoming Ethereum upgrade, Fusaka, is partly named after Osaka, a city in Japan (Wikipedia)

Opinion

55 Years of Financial Surveillance

Reform needs to happen before the Bank Secrecy Act gets to celebrate its next big milestone, argues Nicholas Anthony, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute.

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Policy

Heather 'Razzlekhan' Morgan's Release From Prison Wasn't Us, White House Says

Despite her social-media suggestions that President Donald Trump let the rapper out earlier from her Bitfinex hack sentence, an official said that's not the case.

Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan has dropped another music video before she reports to her 18-month prison sentence in the Bitfinex hack. (Screen shot from "Razzlekhan vs. The United States")

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Markets

Solana ETFs Could Draw Over $3B If Bitcoin, Ether ETF Trends Repeat

Three spot ETFs tracking SOL, HBAR and LTC went live under ’33 Act structure on Tuesday.

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Tech

BOB Unveils Bitcoin Vault Liquidation Engine to Power BTC-Backed Stablecoin Lending

BOB’s new system enables bitcoin holders to borrow stablecoins against their BTC, keeping assets secured on Bitcoin and addressing a major obstacle to Bitcoin DeFi.

BOB team (BOB)