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

NFTs are not dead: Wealthy crypto collectors are still driving the market, says Animoca Brands' Yat Siu

The Animoca Brands co-founder, who is also an avid NFT collector, said there's a community of owners who bought to own, not sell.

Animoca Brands' co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu speaks at Consensus Hong Kong (CoinDesk)

Finance

Societe Generale works with Swift to settle tokenize bonds using cash and stablecoins

The bank’s digital asset division SG-FORGE used its MiCA-compliant EUR CoinVertible stablecoin.

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Finance

Post-quantum crypto startup Project Eleven raises $20 million in funding round

The Series A round was led by Castle Island Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures.

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Finance

Miami’s crypto-settled real estate record broken by $14 million USDT transaction

The transaction was done with the help of tokenization specialist Propy and involving property firms Ciprés and Rilea Group.

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Quantum computing threatens the $2 trillion Bitcoin network. BTQ Technologies says it has a defense.

Post-quantum cryptography specialist BTQ Technologies has introduced ‘Bitcoin Quantum,’ a permissionless fork and testnet of the largest cryptocurrency.

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Finance

Hundreds of wealthy investors are using crypto to buy real estate in Europe

Brighty co-founder Nikolay Denisenko, a former lead backend engineer at Revolut, says his startup has brokered over 100 deals for HNWIs to buy apartments in Europe.

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Finance

Crypto exchange OKX cuts institutional staff amid global restructuring

The exchange has overhauled its institutional business as part of a broader restructuring, with approximately one-third of its sales team exiting, according to one source.

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Finance

Ethereum scaling network Polygon close to buying bitcoin kiosk firm Coinme, sources say

Polygon is paying $100 million to $125 million for the bitcoin ATM provider, according to one of the sources.

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Finance

Bybit’s Private Wealth Management delivered 20% returns amid a challenging 2025

Bybit’s top performing fund saw returns of 20.3% APR driven by the exchange’s flagship high-yield USDT-based strategies.

Bybit lost roughly $1.5 billion in crypto to a theft Friday. (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Finance

The ultra wealthy feel like they've missed out on Crypto riches and Binance thinks it has a solution

Binance’s head of VIP and Institutional, Catherine Chen, talks about the conversations she has been having with ultra-wealthy investors and family offices.

Photo of Binance's head of institutional and VIP, Catherine Chen