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

JPMorgan’s tokenized dollars are quietly rewiring how Wall Street moves money

The Wall Street titan’s recent embrace of a public blockchain is a harbinger of things to come.

JPMorgan building (Shutterstock)

Finance

Coinbase rolls out stock trading, prediction markets and more in bid to become the ‘Everything Exchange’

Coinbase is dramatically expanding the assets available to trade on its platform, including novel cryptocurrencies, perpetual futures, stocks and prediction markets, starting with Kalshi.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (Coinbase)

Finance

Digital Wealth Partners introduces algorithmic XRP trading for qualified retirement accounts

The wealth advisory firm enlisted the help of crypto-based algorithmic trading firm Arch Public to create the strategy.

XRP symbol on top of dollar bills. (Unsplash/CoinDesk)

Finance

Wall Street giant DTCC Picks privacy focused blockchain Canton Network for tokenization

Canton creator Digital Asset will help tokenize DTC-custodied U.S. Treasury securities.

DTCC

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Finance

Crypto’s Machine Learning ‘iPhone Moment’ Comes Closer as AI Agents Trade the Market

Recall Labs, a firm that has run 20 or so AI trading arenas, pitted foundational large language models (LLMs) against customized trading agents.

Robot girl (Gabriele Malaspina, Unsplash)

Finance

Standard Chartered, Coinbase Expand Crypto Prime Services for Institutions

The companies will explore the development of trading, prime services, custody, staking and lending solutions for institutional clients.

The Standard Chartered logo on the outside of an office building.

Tech

Coinbase Expands Reach of Stablecoin-Based AI Agent Payments Tool

The updated protocol, x402 V2, allows developers to combine payments, enable secure wallet access, and add new features via a clean, modular design.

Coinbase app on a mobile phone screen (appshunter.io/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

BMW Taps JPMorgan for First Onchain Programmable FX Payment

The German car giant used JPMorgan’s permissioned Kinexys Digital Payments network to do the FX transaction.

BMW

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Finance

Kraken Launches High-Touch VIP Program for Ultra High Net Worth Clients

Kraken VIP members are paired with a specialist relationship manager, backed by 24/7 support and early insight into Kraken’s full product ecosystem.

Kraken on phone (PiggyBank/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Yi He, Arguably Crypto's Most Powerful Woman, Becomes Binance’s New Co-CEO

The new leadership role was announced by the current Binance CEO Richard Teng at Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai.

Binance has appointed Yi He to oversee Binance Labs (Binance)