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

Crypto’s next billion users might be AI agents, and they’re paying with stablecoins

According to Coinbase’s head of AI product, we’re currently in the “Napster/LimeWire era” of agentic payments.

Agentic payments are on the rise (Getty Images/Curly_photo)

Finance

Bitcoin and Ether bears get decimated amid 'squeeze-led' rally and Musk's X wants to pay creators in stablecoins: Crypto's week in 5 stories

Bitcoin and crypto staged their strongest rally in months as Treasury intervention, regulatory moves and a historic short squeeze collided, while banks and technology companies pushed deeper into stablecoins.

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Opinion

Pass the Clarity Act

Reopening a settled provision four weeks before a vote would sink the bill, argues Summer Mersinger, CEO of the Blockchain Association.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has played a key role in shaping the Clarity Act (Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)

Opinion

The hard truth is that the Clarity Act is an anti-crypto bill

After years of stalled bills, misguided enforcement, and catastrophic collapses, almost any comprehensive crypto legislation began to look like progress. But Clarity is turning that hunger for progress into a political trap, argues Berkeley Law lecturer Hermine Wong.

U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) has championed the Clarity Act (Getty Images/Anna Moneymaker)

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Opinion

Strengthen the Clarity Act

The American Bankers Association seeks to strengthen the Clarity Act, not kill it, argues Rob Nichols, president and CEO of the ABA.

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Markets

Citi plans to launch bitcoin custody for institutional clients later this year

The Wall Street bank plans to let clients hold bitcoin alongside traditional assets through its new Custody+ platform.

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Finance

Crypto’s easy-money era is ending in a wave of failures

Inflated valuations and weak business models are driving crypto’s shakeout, Global Settlement Network CEO Ryan Kirkley says.

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Opinion

The Coldcard hack proves reputation is not a security model

A community built on verification spent five years outsourcing its judgment to one man, writes Foundation CEO Zach Herbert.

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Tech

How a bug in Coldcard’s code went unnoticed for years, leading to $100 million in hacked funds

Crypto’s favorite maxim, “don’t trust, verify” wasn’t followed in the case of Coldcard’s code.

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Tech

Trezor warns 14,000 customers after fulfilment partner suffers data breach

The incident marks the first time Trezor customers' shipping addresses were exposed.

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