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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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)

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.

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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)

Markets

BNB Climbs 3.5% as Fed Rate Cut Bets Fuel Rally Past Key Resistance

BNB's price action was also influenced by a reduction in gas fees and Kazakhstan's state-backed Alem Crypto Fund naming BNB as its first investment asset.

BNBUSD chart (CoinDesk Data)

Finance

Mantle Launches Tokenization Platform, Adds WLFI’s USD1 Stablecoin in RWA Push

Mantle's native token has been one of the best performing cryptocurrencies recently, gaining 73% over the past month amid ecosystem expansion and an integration with Bybit.

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Markets

SUI Jumps 5% as Sui Blockchain Announces Native Stablecoins Amid Broader Rally

Technical analysis shows strong buying momentum driven by institutional interest.

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Tech

DoubleZero Mainnet Goes Live With 22% of Staked SOL on Board

DoubleZero is a network built to speed up how blockchain validators talk to each other.

Austin Federa