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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Tech

Bitcoin layer-2s face a bear-market reality check

Botanix's shutdown has raised an uncomfortable question for Bitcoin builders: Does the market actually want programmable BTC, or just a better way to borrow, lend and earn yield on it?

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Finance

Fifth-generation Kanoo group member is moving a $6 trillion trade market onto blockchain rails

Abdulla Kanoo says his ARP Digital firm is building settlement infrastructure for the growing flow of trade between emerging economies, a market that could reach $32 trillion by 2030.

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Crypto Daybook Americas

Three Fed signals that could make bitcoin pop

Your day-ahead look for June 17, 2026

Federal Reserve logo highlighted on a U.S. banknote (joshua-hoehne/Unsplash)

Finance

Forget retail traders: The real multi-trillion-dollar crypto future is building infrastructure for machines

While legacy banks keep corporate money idled in slow regional accounts, a new protocol allows software systems to settle multi-currency trade instantly.

Bernardo Bilotta, Stables CEO and Founder. (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

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Tech

Ethereum’s biggest protocol overhaul in years moves into its final development stage

Developers are entering the final stretch of work on Glamsterdam, the network's next major upgrade, as teams begin testing a version of the fork in a closed environment.

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Finance

State Street targets stablecoin reserve boom with new money market fund

The asset manager joins BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and others competing to manage reserves backing the growing stablecoin market.

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Markets

Mystery Polymarket trader turned $4 million into $9 million after Spain's shocking World Cup draw

A days-old account turned about $4 million into a $9 million profit betting against Spain, an anomaly trade that onchain sleuths are asking whether it was luck or inside information.

View of Spain-Cape Verde World Cup pitch with the two countries' flags before the start of their match.

Markets

Coinbase's Brian Armstrong says bitcoin may have bottomed at $60,000

Armstrong said his instinct is that bitcoin has probably found its floor, pointing to the four-year cycle that has historically marked lows.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)