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

Mezo unveils institutional bitcoin yield vaults as demand grows to put idle BTC to work

A new product from Mezo, backed by Anchorage Digital and seeded by Bullish, highlights a broader shift as institutions seek yield on bitcoin without sacrificing custody or control.

Bitcoin (CoinDesk)

Markets

Robinhood stock falls 8% after big earnings miss due to weak crypto trading revenue

While the trading platform’s crypto revenue tanked 47% to $134 million, a record-breaking surge in prediction market bets helped push overall revenue up 15% to $1.07 billion.

Robinhood website (PiggyBank/ Unsplash/ Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

World Cup fever: Chiliz expands to Solana and Base to supercharge fan token trading

Chiliz rolled out its own layer-1 network in 2023 to host the trading of its tokens, but is transitioning to what it calls "omnichain distribution."

16:9 Chiliz CEO Alexandre Dreyfus in Singapore during Token2049 (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

Tech

Not a theft, but a statement: Inside the Bitcoin proposal to reassign Satoshi-linked coins

Paul Sztorc says he can't move a single sat of Satoshi's bitcoin and isn't trying to. But critics say rewriting forked-chain balances at addresses a user does not control sets a bad precedent.

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Tech

New wallet offers way to tackle Bitcoin’s quantum risk without a fork

The Postquant Labs project uses Arch Network to deliver post-quantum signature protection without a Bitcoin soft fork, sidestepping both Jameson Lopp's freeze proposal and Paul Sztorc's hard fork.

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Finance

Visa is teaming up with stablecoin firm WeFi to build onchain banks

Collins wants to bring robust stablecoin payments infrastructure to under-banked people around the planet.

VISA credit card (Shutterstock)

Policy

A digital shekel is here: Israel approves its first regulated stablecoin

BILS was developed in collaboration with the Solana network and crypto custodian heavyweights Fireblocks with auditing oversight provided by Big Four consultancy firm EY.

16:9 Shekels (Ri_Ya/Pixabay)

Markets

Curve founder pitches market-based fix for $700K bad debt in contrast to Aave bailout

The plan allows trapped lenders to sell tokenized claims on deposits, offering buyers an option-like bet on CRV's recovery.

Laptop, calculator and documents on table (Jakub Żerdzicki/UJnsplash)

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Finance

Cross-border B2B stablecoin payments to hit $5 trillion by 2035, says Juniper Research

Juniper Research found that 85% of all stablecoin transaction value in 2035 will be driven by international business-to-business (B2B) payments.

(Photo by CoinWire Japan on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

From SWIFT to onchain: South Korea’s biggest digital bank taps Ripple for high-speed global transfers

KBank is using Palisade, Ripple's software-as-a-service wallet that was acquired earlier this year as part of Ripple's $4 billion in crypto-related investments.

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