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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Finance

Pantera, Susquehanna and HashKey Back DEX SynFutures With $22M Funding

The funding round was led by Pantera Capital, and included participations from Susquehanna International Group and HashKey Capital

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Tech

Lightning Labs Rolls Out 'Taproot Assets,' to Make Bitcoin 'Multi-Asset' Network

Taproot Assets will give developers "the tools needed to make Bitcoin a multi-asset network, but in a scalable manner," according to Lightning Labs.

Binance sets up lightning network nodes (Leon Contreras/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Financial Services Firm Unchained Looks to Attract Wealthy Clients With New Advisory Service

Sound Advisory will offer a network of "bitcoin-competent" financial planners to help HNWIs build distribution and utilization strategies and address potential tax and inheritance issues.

Unchained Capital co-founders Dhruv Bansal (left) and Joe Kelly (Unchained)

Tech

Bitcoin Magazine Owner Backs First Ordinals Fund, Which Bought $85K Rock

The "Unbroken Chain" fund, as it is known, plans to raise $5 million from its limited partners and will trade in various Ordinals types, including BRC-20 tokens – sometimes positioned as NFTs on Bitcoin. Already the new group has bought an image of a rock for about $85,000.

https://ordiscan.com/collections

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Finance

Hong Kong-Based Crypto Exchange OSL's Owner Weighing Sale at $128M Valuation: Bloomberg

BC Technology may elect to sell parts of OSL's business rather than the whole entity, according to the report, citing people familiar with the matter.

Hong Kong harbor skyline view into Kowloon

Finance

Ferrari to Start Accepting Crypto Payments in U.S, Europe to Follow

Ferrari will subsequently extend the scheme to Europe in response to demand from its wealthy customers

Ferrari (NoName_13/Pixabay)

Finance

Internet Computer's Dfinity Is Building Carbon Credit-Inspired Tech for Waste Management

The not-for-profit foundation is working with management consultancy Roland Berger who introduced the Voluntary Recycling Credits (VRC) standard in June, which is inspired by the carbon credit market.

Recycling (Pawel Czerwinski/Unsplash)

Finance

Trezor Unveils New Hardware Wallets, Corrosion-Resistant 'Keep Metal' for Recovery

Trezor has produced a hardware wallet with a stripped-back design to appeal to less experienced crypto users, alongside two other new products.

Trezor Safe 3 wallet (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

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Tech

Bitcoin Might Get Ethereum-Style Smart Contracts Under ‘BitVM’ Plan

A goal of Robin Linus's design for "BitVM" is to enable Turing-complete Bitcoin contracts – making the blockchain programmable, similar to a computer – without making the network more complicated for other users.

Robin Linus, a core contributor to ZeroSync and the author of the new "BitVM" paper. (Robin Linus)

Finance

Bitcoin Financial Services Firm Swan Unveils 'Collaborative Custody' Service

Swan and Blockstream's plan to allow users to retain ultimate control of their bitcoin while knowing that is stored in a highly secure way

a rank of safe deposit boxes