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

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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Markets

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)

Tech

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)

Policy

Binance handed user data to Russia that led to a Ukrainian donor's arrest

Binance says it cooperates with lawful requests, despite exiting the Russian market in 2023 to improve its compliance strategy.

Binance (Vadim Artyukhin/Unsplash)

Finance

MiCA's cleanup is creating a new scam wave across the European Union

Fraudsters impersonating regulators and licensed crypto exchanges to steal funds from users forced to migrate their accounts after the EU's MiCA deadline are on the rise.

Hackers and scammers. (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

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Finance

The 'long bitcoin, short the bankers' era is officially over as TradFi giants embrace digital assets

Financial firms are partnering with specialists to build infrastructure, blurring lines between traditional and decentralized finance into a unified sector.

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley and Anchorage Digital co-founder Diogo Monica @ NEARCON 2026 (Margaux Nijkerk/ CoinDesk)

Markets

Israel’s largest bank to offer crypto trading with Galaxy

Bank Leumi customers will be able to trade bitcoin, ether and solana through the bank’s investment app from early 2027.

(Eduardo Castro/Pixabay)