Ian Allison

Ian Allison is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, focused on institutional and enterprise adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Prior to that, he covered fintech for the International Business Times in London and Newsweek online. He won the State Street Data and Innovation journalist of the year award in 2017, and was runner up the following year. He also earned CoinDesk an honourable mention in the 2020 SABEW Best in Business awards. His November 2022 FTX scoop, which brought down the exchange and its boss Sam Bankman-Fried, won a Polk award, Loeb award and New York Press Club award. Ian graduated from the University of Edinburgh. He holds ETH.

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Finance

Millions in crypto wealth at risk of vanishing when holders die. Here's how to protect them

Without proper planning, inherited crypto can easily be lost to delays, missing keys or fiduciaries unfamiliar with the asset class, experts warn.

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Finance

How the ultra-wealthy are using bitcoin to fund their yacht upgrades and Cannes trips

Cometh founder Jerome de Tychey is applying DeFi lending and borrowing on platforms like Aave, Morpho, and Uniswap to structures that help the ultra-wealthy secure loans against their massive crypto fortunes.

Fishing boats and luxury yachts in the port of Nice on August 20, 2018 in Nice, France. (Frédéric Soltan/Corbis, Getty Images)

Finance

Nomura-backed Laser Digital introduces tokenized bitcoin yield-bearing fund

The Laser Digital Bitcoin Diversified Yield Fund SP targets excess returns on top of BTC performance.

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Finance

Bitcoin utility blockchain VerifiedX debuts ‘Venmo-for crypto’ payment app Butterfly

The Butterfly app goes live in partnership with Crypto.com, Moonpay and Blockdaemon.

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Former FTX EU trading specialists unveil Perpetuals.com, an AI-powered derivatives platform

Patrick Gruhn and Robin Matzke were the co-founders of Digital Assets, which was acquired by FTX’s Sam Bankman Fried in 2021 and rebranded as FTX EU.

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Finance

NFTs are not dead: Wealthy crypto collectors are still driving the market, says Animoca Brands' Yat Siu

The Animoca Brands co-founder, who is also an avid NFT collector, said there's a community of owners who bought to own, not sell.

Animoca Brands' co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu speaks at Consensus Hong Kong (CoinDesk)

Finance

Societe Generale works with Swift to settle tokenize bonds using cash and stablecoins

The bank’s digital asset division SG-FORGE used its MiCA-compliant EUR CoinVertible stablecoin.

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Finance

Post-quantum crypto startup Project Eleven raises $20 million in funding round

The Series A round was led by Castle Island Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures.

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Miami’s crypto-settled real estate record broken by $14 million USDT transaction

The transaction was done with the help of tokenization specialist Propy and involving property firms Ciprés and Rilea Group.

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Tech

Quantum computing threatens the $2 trillion Bitcoin network. BTQ Technologies says it has a defense.

Post-quantum cryptography specialist BTQ Technologies has introduced ‘Bitcoin Quantum,’ a permissionless fork and testnet of the largest cryptocurrency.

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