Ian Allison

Ian Allison is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, focused on institutional and enterprise adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Prior to that, he covered fintech for the International Business Times in London and Newsweek online. He won the State Street Data and Innovation journalist of the year award in 2017, and was runner up the following year. He also earned CoinDesk an honourable mention in the 2020 SABEW Best in Business awards. His November 2022 FTX scoop, which brought down the exchange and its boss Sam Bankman-Fried, won a Polk award, Loeb award and New York Press Club award. Ian graduated from the University of Edinburgh. He holds ETH.

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Finance

Germany’s AllUnity Launches BaFin-Regulated Euro Stablecoin EURAU

EURAU is claimed to be the first euro stablecoin under BaFin’s e-money license.

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Policy

Donald Trump’s ‘Golden Age of Crypto’ Takes Shape With White House Working Group Report

A preview of a White House report on digital assets makes further recommendations to areas already in motion within the Clarity Act to oversee crypto markets and the GENIUS Act for stablecoins.

Donald Trump (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Boerse Stuttgart’s Crypto Platform Adds Six More Cryptocurrencies for Retail Traders

Germany’s BISON trading venue now supports LDO, BNB, AVAX, ONDO, PEPE and NEAR.

Boerse Stuttgart location in Gustav-Heinemann-Platz.

Finance

D2X Raises $5M to Expand Crypto Derivatives Exchange for Institutions

CMT Digital, Circle Ventures and Point72 back Amsterdam-based D2X as it targets crypto futures and options

D2X co-founder Theodore Rozencwajg (right) and D2X CEO Frederic Colette (left)

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Finance

UAE Lender RAKBANK Offers Retail Customers Crypto With Bitpanda

Customers can now buy, sell, and swap crypto via RAKBANK’s app through Bitpanda’s regulated platform.

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Finance

Ethereum Wallet MetaMask Adds Stablecoin Yield With DeFi Giant Aave

MetaMask Stablecoin Earn now offers users interest on USDC, USDT and DAI via Aave’s lending markets.

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Finance

Finance Firm Mill City Ventures to Buy $441M in SUI Tokens, Pivoting to Crypto Treasury Strategy

The non-bank lender will allocate nearly all of a $450 million private placement to Sui’s native token

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Finance

OKX Introduces Regulated Crypto Derivatives for Retail Traders in UAE

Traders in the UAE can now access futures, perpetuals, and options with leverage under new rules

OKX trading app on a mobile phone (CoinDesk)

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Finance

Clearmatics' New DeFi Derivatives Let Traders Bet on Anything, but It's Not a Prediction Market

Forecast markets will run on the soon-to-launch layer-1 blockchain Autonity and newly developed Autonomous Futures Protocol (AFP).

Clearmatics CEO Robert Sams

Finance

Crypto Prediction Market Polymarket Weighs Launching Its Own Stablecoin: Source

Polymarket would create its own stablecoin to own the yield-generating USD reserves that back the amount of Circle’s dollar-pegged token, USDC, a source said.

Shayne Coplan, CEO, Polymarket, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk).