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

Strategy spends $635M buying back STRC as perpetual preferred stock lags $100 par

STRC trades at $97.34 despite Strategy’s growing repurchases, while SATA’s higher dividend rate has helped it hold its $100 par value.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (Nikhilesh De)

Finance

Ditching 'digital gold': BPI study suggests everyday Americans prefer control and micro-investing

A new survey suggests some of bitcoin's most familiar sales pitches of changing the world may be poorly suited to a majority of prospective buyers.

Bitcoin Logo

Finance

BitGo to buy NYDIG trading arm for $42.5M in cash and stock plus $15M earnout

The deal to buy NYDIG IF Holdings comprises $7 million in cash and around $35.5 million in stock, as well as the $15 earnout.

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

SBI buys 20% stake in Indonesia's Ajaib for $270 million to expand yen stablecoin in Southeast Asia

The Japanese financial giant is acquiring a 20% stake in the Indonesian online brokerage to build a cross-border, blockchain-based settlement network.

SBI Holdings at Izumi Garden Tower in Tokyo (Chris 73/Wikimedia Commons)

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Finance

Circle's USDC takes over Chelsea's jersey in Premier League first sponsorship deal

Financials were not disclosed, though reports from earlier this year suggested Chelsea was targeting 65 million pounds a year ($88.3 million) for the sponsorship berth.

Circle is the new front-of-shirt sponsor for Chelsea FC (Chelsea FC/Circle)

Finance

Bullish backs USD.AI with $100 million in financing to drive GPU-backed loans

Cryptocurrency platform Bullish is extending a $100 million debt facility to USD.AI to finance GPU-backed loans for artificial intelligence infrastructure.

USD.AI developer Permian Labs' Conor Moore (left, COO/co-founder) and David Choi (right, CEO/co-founder) (Permian Labs)

Markets

IREN shares fall 8% as costly AI transition weighs on earnings

Weakening profitability overshadowed a major milestone in IREN’s transformation into an AI cloud provider.

ASIC mining rigs (Winston Chen/Unsplash)

Finance

South Korea’s top financial conglomerate team up with Visa to test stablecoin issuance and B2B settlements

Shinhan Financial Group will use Visa’s platform to test stablecoin issuance, remittance, and redemption while building new AI-powered payment models.

Shinhan Financial's headquarters in Seoul. (Mobius6/Wikimedia Commons)

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Finance

Dallas Fed warns tokenized deposits could strip $700 billion from U.S. banks' lending capacity

Programmable deposits and AI agents may enable instantaneous, automated bank switching for higher yields, driving up bank funding costs.

Piggybank next to coins on the floor

Policy

ECB claims digital euro will offer 'maximum level of privacy' amid surveillance fears

Central bank officials say the Eurosystem will be structurally unable to link users to purchases, but civil society groups remain skeptical.

ECB executive board member Piero Cipollone. (ECB/Press)