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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Opinion

The Base token should give holders voting power over Coinbase itself

If BASE becomes economically tied to COIN, the token would trade not as a memeified L2 token, but as a globally accessible representation of equity-like value.

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Opinion

Want TradFi to embrace tokenization? Crypto's distribution strategy must mature

The crypto industry assumes institutions discover products the way retail traders do: stumbling across them on Twitter, experimenting quickly, and iterating in public. But that's not how asset allocators at pension funds or family offices operate, argues Dean Khan Dhillon, head of growth at RWA.xyz.

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Finance

Solana Mobile begins SKR token airdrop to Seeker phone users

The token will play a central role in governance and staking, allowing holders to delegate tokens to help secure and scale the mobile ecosystem.

Solana Mobile's second generation phone Seeker (Solana Mobile)

Opinion

How Wall Street took over the bitcoin options market

Bitcoin is no longer an outlier, says OKX President Hong Fang. It now behaves more like a macro proxy — one that traders use to express their views on growth, risk appetite, and volatility.

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Finance

Crypto’s worst year for hacks wasn’t a smart contract issue. It was a people problem.

In an exclusive interview with CoinDesk, Immunefi’s CEO, Mitchell Amador, said onchain security is improving despite losses continuing to rise.

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Opinion

Customers are benefitting from the global stablecoin arms race — but that won’t last forever

It would be a mistake to see the incoming wave of aggressive APYs as the new baseline, according to Ron Tarter, CEO of MNEE. This is merely the promotional phase of stablecoins.

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Finance

PNC Bank CEO says stablecoins must choose: be a payment tool or a money market fund

During an earnings call on Friday, CEO Bill Demchak urged a clear split between payment tools and investment vehicles.

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Tech

Stablecoins and self-custody are driving the rise of crypto neobanks

For years, crypto’s most ambitious builders focused on blockchains’ plumbing. But a growing number of projects are now stepping away from the base layer and focusing on payments and neobank-like services.

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Markets

Bitcoin price may hit $300,000 to $1.5 million by 2030, Ark Invest Says

With ETFs and corporate treasuries absorbing more bitcoin than expected, the market is entering a more institutional, lower-volatility era.

Ark Invest's Cathie Wood (CoinDesk)

Markets

More than half of all crypto tokens have failed — and most died in 2025

Over 13.4 million tokens have been erased between mid-2021 and 2025, according to a new analysis by CoinGecko.

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