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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Web3

Mysterious Solana project World unveiled as fully onchain prediction market

The platform is now live within the Phantom wallet and at world.xyz, utilizing Chainlink as its primary oracle infrastructure for market data.

Laptop with markets monitor and charts. (Kanchanara/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin opens the third quarter in an historical red zone after rare losing first half

Bitcoin fell in both the first and second quarters of 2026, only the third time it has opened a year that way. In the two earlier instances, 2018 and 2022, the second half brought no rescue.

Bear. (Hans-Jurgen Mager/Unsplash)

Policy

Europe is rewriting its landmark crypto rulebook MiCA as hard July 1 deadline passes

The EU is reviewing whether its landmark crypto regulation MiCA needs updating for a market reshaped by stablecoins and tokenization.

European Union (Antoine Schibler/Unsplash)

Markets

Ark Invest bought more than $75 million of crypto shares during June bloodbath

Ark Invest has a tendency to "buy the dip," loading up on shares in cryptocurrency companies when their prices are depressed.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood

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Markets

Bitcoin’s 20% June crash looks even deadlier on the charts. Here’s why

Bitcoin dropped by 20% in June, but the monthly chart reveals something far more concerning.

BTC storm could be looming, per Derive. (Myriams-Fotos/Pixabay)

Markets

Strategy heads for 11th losing month in 12 as bitcoin weakness continues

Strategy (MSTR) shares have lost around 41% of their value in June.

STRC, MSTR, BTC (TradingView)

Policy

UK to lower stablecoin capital buffers, undercutting EU's MiCA requirements

The Financial Conduct Authority's proposal follows the Bank of England's backtracking on the limit to the value of stablecoins an individual could hold.

UK FCA building (FCA)

Policy

SEC wins $5.5 million default judgment over alleged fake crypto platform NanoBit

The group built trust via WhatsApp, then misappropriated user funds to Hong Kong bank accounts instead of executing any actual crypto trades.

Statue of Lady liberty (Tingey Injury Law Firm/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Tech

Private keys, not smart contracts, caused 40% of crypto's $16 billion hack losses. Here's whats being done.

The industry is moving toward fixing the private key vulnerability issue, just not evenly, Wish Wu, co-founder and CEO of Pharos, said.

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Finance

MiCA's looming deadline could leave 10 million crypto users without a platform in the EU

As MiCA takes full effect on July 1, SwissBorg's Alex Fazel told CoinDesk users should choose platforms built to withstand EU regulators' tightening oversight.

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