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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Markets

Spot Ether ETFs Shed $952M Over 5 Days as Recession Fears Grow

Despite the outflows, ether rose by more than 16% in the past month, driven in part by the passage of the GENIUS Act.

Ether price chart on a smartphone screen (Cedrik Wesche/Unsplash)

Markets


ARK Invest Snaps Up $23.5M in BitMine and Bullish Shares Across Flagship ETFs

The purchases, disclosed in recent trade filings, consisted of 387,000 shares of BitMine and 144,000 shares of Bullish, with ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) leading the way.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

Finance

StablecoinX Secures $530M Investment to Back Ethena-Linked Treasury

The funds will be used to acquire an expected 3 billion ENA, according to StablecoinX, a dedicated treasury vehicle for the stablecoin protocol.

Seed Funding Investment coins in a jar (Towfiqu barbhuiya/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

The Banks and the Unbanked: Blockchain’s Biggest Beneficiaries Sit at Both Ends of the Financial Spectrum

Actualizing blockchain's full potential requires intentional design for both audiences, Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon says.

Aerial view of Manhattan's financial district (Getty Images/Alexander Spatari)

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Finance

Brazil’s Largest Private Asset Manager Itaú Launches Crypto-Focused Division

The new unit, led by former Hashdex executive João Marco Braga da Cunha, will operate within Itaú's multidesk investment structure, which oversees $21.6 billion in assets.

Brazil's flag (Rafaela Biazi/Unsplash)

Markets

Trump-Backed Thumzup to Add 3,500 Dogecoin Mining Rigs With Dogehash Deal

The expansion is expected to come through a pending acquisition of Dogehash, a miner focused on the Scrypt algorithm that secures both Dogecoin and Litecoin.

DOGE (Virginia Marinova/Unsplash)

Tech

World Liberty Financial Blacklists Justin Sun's Address With $107M WLFI

Sun is a key investor in the project and holds around $700 million worth of WLFI tokens, mostly vested.

World Liberty Financial's Zak Folkman (Right) at Consensus Hong Kong on Feb. 19. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Clarity Is Eating the World

The winners of the next decade will not be those who move fast and break things, says Chris Brummer, Georgetown law professor and CEO of Bluprynt. Instead, the winners will be those who move smart and build things that last.

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Opinion

The CLARITY Act Defined 'Mature' Blockchains. Here’s What It Missed.

Decentralization is not enough to determine whether a blockchain is truly mature, argues Algorand’s Chief Strategy Officer Marc Vanlerberghe.

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Tech

Silent Data Becomes First Privacy-Focused Layer 2 to Join Ethereum’s Superchain

The project is one of over 30 layer-2 networks working to scale Ethereum.

DeFi networks are global. (NASA/Unsplash)