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

Gold-Backed Tokens Hold Firm in $19B Crypto Rout, but Rally May Be Near Exhaustion

Gold-backed tokens have been a refuge for crypto investors, with year-to-date gains of over 50%, mirroring gold's historic rally.

Gold bars.

Opinion

On-Chain Investment Funds: Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts

Some on-chain investment funds may arrive packaged as “innovation” but conceal higher costs, weaker protections, or unnecessary complexity, Prometheum’s co-CEO Aaron Kaplan argues.

Statue of an ancient Greek soldier (Javier Rincon/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Miners Emerge as Key AI Infrastructure Partners Amid Power Crunch: Bernstein

Miners’ secured grid capacity and high-density sites offer hyperscalers a faster, cheaper path to expand AI data centers as interconnection delays mount.

Racks of mining machines.

Markets

JPMorgan Sees Modest Inflows for Solana ETFs Despite Likely SEC Approval

The bank expects solana exchange-traded funds to attract only a fraction of ether’s inflows.

Solana News

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Finance

DCG Subsidiary Yuma Taps TradeBlock Founders to Lead Growth in Decentralized AI on Bittensor

Yuma has appointed veteran crypto founders Greg Schvey and Jeff Schvey as its new Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer, respectively.

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Finance

North Korean Hackers Have Stolen Over $2 Billion This Year: Elliptic

North Korea’s crypto theft spree has already hit a record $2 billion in 2025, nearly triple last year’s total.

Lazarus Group, a cybercrime organization run by the North Korean government, may have links to this week's exploit of Euler Finance. (Micha Brandli/Unsplash)

Markets

PEPE Outpaces Memecoin Market as Whales Continue Accumulating

The price jump comes amid growing whale accumulation, with top 100 PEPE addresses on Ethereum adding 4.28% to their holdings in 30 days.

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Policy

Roman Storm's Attorneys Call for Acquittal in Tornado Cash Case

Storm's attorneys filed standard post-trial motions asking a federal judge to kick out a guilty verdict and acquit him of all three charges he faced during his trial in Manhattan this summer.

Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm outside the Manhattan courthouse where he is being tried for criminal money laundering (CoinDesk/Cheyenne Ligon)

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Opinion

Speculative Retail Trading is Good for Financial Markets, Actually

Fighting speculation is fighting reality, Stocktwits CEO and co-founder Howard Lindzon argues.

Abstract green wireframe bull charging forward on a striped background. (CoinDesk)

Opinion

Tokenization Could Revitalize Chile’s Struggling Pension System

Recent reforms are a step toward improving Chile’s pension system — but without embracing tokenization and other technological innovations, the system may continue to lag, argues María Pía Aqueveque Jabbaz.

Chile's flag (Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)