Cheyenne Ligon

Cheyenne is a features and opinions editor at CoinDesk. Previously, she covered U.S. policy and regulation, with a focus on court proceedings and crime. She was part of the Gerald Loeb award-winning team that chronicled the downfall of FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried. She has no significant crypto holdings.

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Finance

Binance bets on becoming a crypto 'super app' as stablecoins reshape growth

Shunyet Jan, Binance’s head of spot trading and derivatives, said the exchange is focusing more on payments and financial services than on trading alone as it drives the next phase of its expansion.

Crypto apps (Getty Images/Kenneth Cheung)

Opinion

The Clarity Act isn't a ticket to sanctions evasion, actually

The bill, as currently drafted, has the power to stop sanctions evasion at scale, argues Ari Redbord, global head of policy at TRM Labs.

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Finance

Mizuho downgrades Circle to underperform, cuts price target to $50 on Open USD threat

The Japanese investment bank said Open USD's yield pass-through model could pressure Circle's margins by shifting more reserve income to distributors.

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Circle Speaks at Hong Kong Fintech Week in 2024 (HK Fintech Week)

Tech

Ethereum Foundation spinout EthSystems targets banks with blockchain privacy technology

The spinout comes amid one of the biggest organizational shakeups at the Ethereum Foundation in years.

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Opinion

The UK has finally shown it’s serious about crypto

Several recent regulatory steps indicate the UK might finally stop dragging its feet when it comes to crypto, argues Wirex CEO Chet Shah.

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Tech

Ethereum's newest nonprofit wants to become Wall Street's guide to crypto

In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we’re digging into Ethereum Institutional, a new nonprofit aimed at educating financial institutions and banks about Ethereum.

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Finance

Aave rolls out vaults for yield-hungry fintech investors

Aave's new Stable Vaults product lets wallets, exchanges and payment apps offer yields on stablecoin deposits

Stani Kulechov, Aave Labs (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Age verification is the surveillance nobody voted for

KOSA and Chat Control both retreated on their most-criticized measures this week, but both kept mandatory age verification, the quiet mechanism that turns anonymous browsing into identified browsing for all of us, argues Billions CEO Evin McMullen.

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Markets

Crypto VC Paradigm launches $1.2 billion AI fund as it broadens beyond digital assets

The firm's latest fund backs AI and robotics startups but leadership says it remains committed to crypto investing.

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Finance

Dinari, tZERO join forces on turnkey platform for tokenized U.S. equities

The move comes as firms race to build the infrastructure for blockchain-based stocks and debate how tokenized stocks should work.

Dinari co-founder and CEO Gabe Otte (Dinari)