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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Markets

Crypto traders braced for a total wipeout this week but Bitcoin had other plans

Market experts view bitcoin’s price stability as evidence of its fundamental independence from Washington, maintaining that global liquidity and adoption cycles remain the primary growth drivers.

U.S. Senate (Senate/Press)

Markets

'We have lost control': Crypto pioneer warns AI could trigger systemic banking and infrastructure shocks

Marc van der Chijs sold much of his bitcoin to invest in AI. Now, growing concerns about the technology accompany a move to put some profits back into crypto.

Mining equipment (Shutterstock)

Finance

Why Wall Street giants build tokenization money for institutions, not regular consumers

JPMorgan and Citi move billions in tokenized deposits, but only among their branches. A U.K. challenger bank is about to do something neither has done.

Mintoo Bhandari of Monument Bank (left) and Fahmi Syed of the Midnight Foundation (right).  (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Policy

ECB President Christine Lagarde intervened to block Binance’s EU MiCA license: WSJ

Although the ECB holds no formal licensing authority under MiCA, high-level intervention led Greece to stall an application that regulators had previously deemed complete, the Journal said.

ECB President Christine Lagarde. (Felix Schmidt/ECB Press)

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Tech

Zcash targets November upgrade to make private payments up to three times faster

NU7 would reduce block times to 25 seconds while setting aside at least 60% of transaction fees to supplement mining rewards beginning in 2031.

Computer, network upgrade (JESHOOTS-com/Pixabay)

Finance

The Ondo Finance succession crisis gets messier as Kathleen Allman’s daughter alleges ‘dementia’, alcoholism and reckless spending

The estranged daughter of 77-year-old Kathleen Allman has petitioned a Hawaiian court to establish a limited conservatorship to protect her parents’ share of her brother’s stake in Ondo.

Nathan Allman sits on a panel at Consensus 2025

Finance

How Circle’s institutional Arc blockchain got taken over by memecoins on day one

Circle blockchain Arc's first day was dominated by memecoins, and the traders behind them had already moved on by Thursday morning.

Arc first day volume (DefiLlama)

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Finance

Blockchain finance platform Theo launches tokenized silver backed by $40 million in active leases

The onchain finance platform said thSLVR allows investors to retain exposure to silver while earning income from lending the metal to institutional borrowers.

Piles of gold and silver bars. (Scottsdale Mint/Unsplash)