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

Bitcoin Token Protocol BRC20 Enables EVM-Style Smart Contracts With 'BRC2.0'

BRC20 is a token standard for issuing fungible tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain via the Ordinals protocol

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Finance

Web3 Funding Hit $9.6B in Q2 Despite Fewer Deals

Venture capital is consolidating into larger, higher-conviction bets, with infrastructure projects leading the way, according to Outlier Ventures

16:9 Market growth, surge, rally(Mediamodifier/Pixabay)

Markets

BONK Jumps 4% as Institutional Activity Signals Growing Solana Confidence

Institutional capital and Solana ecosystem growth fuel optimism for memecoin utility.

BONK, Aug. 28 2025 (CoinDesk)

Markets

ICP Climbs 3% as Interest in Altcoins Gains Momentum

ICP executes V-shaped recovery, reclaiming $5.13 on heavy volume, possibly setting up for continued gains

ICP, Aug. 28 2025 (CoinDesk)

Finance

A Bitcoin Startup Raised $50M to Allow Users to Trade With 'Bitcoin-Grade' Security

The raise brings Portal’s total funding to $92M as it pushes to make Bitcoin the anchor of tokenized and cross-chain markets.

16:0 Portal founders (Portal)

Finance

Startup M0 Raises $40M Series B as VCs Pile Into Stablecoins: Report

M0, which has now raised almost $100 million in capital do far, declined to disclose its valuation in the funding round

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

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Finance

Lygos Aims to Banish Ghosts of Crypto Lending Collapse With Non-Custodial Bitcoin Model

Built on Discrete Log Contracts from Atomic Finance, Lygos says its new BTC credit platform avoids the custodial risks that sank Celsius, BlockFi and Voyager.

Lygos co-founders (Lygos)