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

XRPL could close its biggest DeFi gap if new AMM amendment passes

A draft proposal filed Tuesday would extend the XRP Ledger's native automated market maker with three swappable curve types, giving liquidity providers more efficient ways to deploy capital and closing one of XRPL DeFi's longest-standing gaps.

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Markets

StablR freezes USDR and EURR after attacker mints $13.5 million in unbacked tokens

The breach, linked to a 1-of-3 multisig wallet weakness, allowed attackers to compromise a key and mint $13.5 million in unbacked tokens, netting them $2.8 million.

Hacker facing screens with lines of code (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

Tech

XRP Ledger to delete NFT junk and patch key bugs in a new upgrade

The XRP Ledger is rolling out the fixCleanup3_1_3 upgrade on Wednesday, to clean up expired NFTs.

Glasses in front of monitors with code (Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

Finance

A massive $1 trillion hidden market is waiting to be unlocked in bitcoin, says new report

Ledn forecasts the bitcoin-backed lending market could grow to $1 trillion within a decade as new research highlights strong borrower demand.

Lending money, bills on a person's hands (Christian Dubovan/Unsplash)

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Finance

Crypto rails are becoming the default payment layer for AI agents, report says

A new report from Keyrock says stablecoins on blockchain rails are becoming the go-to payment layer for AI agents as traditional card rails struggle to handle micropayments.

Robots (Unsplash/Sumaid pal Singh Bakshi/Modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

Congress hits Polymarket and Kalshi with a massive insider trading probe

Rep. James Comer is demanding internal records from the prediction market CEOs, warning that government employees could be using classified information to make “huge profits”.

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Markets

Tom Lee says trillions in tech IPO supply won't crash the S&P 500

Fundstrat’s Tom Lee argues that trillions in new IPO supply from SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI could ultimately be absorbed by underallocated investors.

Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine and cofounder of Fundstrat, speaking at Consensus 2026 in Miami (CoinDesk)

Crypto Daybook Americas

Bitcoin left behind in the geopolitical melee

Your day-ahead look for May 22, 2026

Geopolitics (Vilius Kukanauskas/Pixabay)

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Markets

Ark Invest buys $12.5 million of Bullish stock in four days

Ark frequently uses broader digital asset downturns, which tend to pull crypto equities lower, as an entry point into cryptocurrency companies.

Crypto platform Bullish goes public on the New York Stock Exchange. (CoinDesk/Nik De)

Markets

Crypto majors stuck in tight range as altcoin rotation picks up steam

Bitcoin holds between $76,000 and $78,000 while AI tokens and HYPE surge; derivatives signal calm conditions with volatility selling dominating options markets.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)