Jamie Crawley

Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.

Jamie Crawley

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Markets

Maya Protocol exploit drains bitcoin and other assets as pool value drops by $11 million

A chain of six flaws caused the cross-chain trading network to credit a pool with nearly 50 million tokens that were never properly funded, letting an attacker drain real assets.

Cypher Protocol suffers exploit (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

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Robot maker Unitree’s IPO surges 600% , outpacing crypto traders’ premarket bets

A Hyperliquid perp priced Unitree far above its IPO valuation before Shanghai trading began, but the robot maker’s first public trade still opened roughly 75% above crypto traders’ implied price.

Unitree robot at the company's store during its opening at the JD.com Inc. Shuangjing shopping center. (Fred Lee/Getty Images)

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Bitcoin holds $64,000 and solana leads gains amid 7% Korean chip stock slide

Bitcoin held near $64,000 and every major except BNB gained, while Korean semiconductor stocks fell more than 7% and Fed minutes are due at 2 p.m. ET.

Crypto trading charts. (Rafael Minguet Delgado/Pexels)

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Bitcoin has gone quiet as traders chase ‘5x or 10x’ payoffs elsewhere

Bitcoin's price swings have hit a cycle low, squeezed by a market tug-of-war with no clear winner. The traders who once lived off its chaos have taken their risk appetite elsewhere.

Bitcoin traders are pivoting to other asset classes for bigger payoffs. (Cheng Xin/Getty Images)

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Why the Trump-backed crypto venture is distancing itself from Hong Kong AI aggregator WorldClaw

WLFI says the AI platform is independent and uses USD1 as a payment rail, but would not say whether it has equity, financing, revenue-sharing or other economic interests in the company.

Eric Trump sits holding a microphone at a panel discussion. (Keith Tanner/CoinDesk)

Finance

HashKey taps Hong Kong's first regulated stablecoin to settle insurance and trade deals

Following institutional trials, the HKD-pegged asset is being put to work to capture part of Hong Kong's $49 billion trade corridor with the United Arab Emirates

Hong Kong aerial view. skyscrapers. night photo. (Simon Zhu/CoinDesk)

Finance

Cash App's crypto support expands beyond bitcoin and USDC via MoonPay

Eligible Cash App users will be able to use their balances to purchase digital assets offered by MoonPay, which include ether, solana and stablecoin USDT.

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Block (CoinDesk)

Finance

South Korea joins more than 30 jurisdictions restricting Polymarket access

Regulators rejected Polymarket's defense regarding its P2P nature, arguing the platform manages market rules and facilitates crypto-based gambling activity.

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

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Bitcoin scores a rare win over S&P 500 with 2.6% rise versus 0.5% fall

BTC outperformed Wall Street on Monday, breaking its recent pattern of lagging behind U.S. stocks.

A man sits in front of two trading screens. (Shutterstock)

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Israel’s largest crypto broker Bits of Gold hit by data breach affecting 200,000 customers

Funds and digital assets were not touched, but names, bank account details, and national ID numbers may have been exposed in what the company says was a wider global attack.

Hackers. Data and security breach. (Kevin Horvat on Unsplash)