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

DHS’s predictive policing is unconstitutional, un-American and should be stopped

Targeting Americans based on what their spending habits can tell us about their politics is an abuse of our financial system, writes Coin Center’s Laz Pieper.

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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

Markets

Group behind Revolut data breach demands $3 million in Monero, threaten to sell customer data

The group gave Revolut 24 hours to pay and said it targeted customers with significant crypto holdings. Revolut said it has not not received any direct contact from the individuals.

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Finance

Celsius sues BitMEX for $495 million over 2020 crash liquidations

The estate is chasing 6,360 BTC lost in the Covid crash — a leveraged long position that sits awkwardly with the lender's delta-neutral marketing.

Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky in shadow against a dark backgroud

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Opinion

A stolen coin can be returned. A leaked identity cannot.

We keep building the honeypots, and we are about to hand the same architecture to billions of AI agents, writes Evin McMullen, CEO and co-founder of Billions.

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Markets

Bitcoin traders brace for Fed hike, but a surprise hold could pose bigger risk

Bitcoin is stuck near $80,000 as traders build stablecoin positions that could return to the market once Fed uncertainty clears.

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Markets

Crypto stocks sink after Senate rejects Clarity Act

Coinbase, Circle and Galaxy lead a broad crypto stock selloff after the U.S. Senate failed to advance a long-awaited market structure bill.

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Policy

Crypto industry reacts after Clarity Act fails Senate vote

One of the most crucial U.S. regulations for crypto markets couldn't secure enough support to clear the Senate's final 60-vote hurdle.

Senator Cynthia Lummis (Senate webcast)

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Finance

Solana lender Kamino taps fintech veteran Michael Weisz as CEO for massive U.S. expansion

Michael Weisz will lead Kamino from a new New York headquarters as the DeFi lender is expanding into tokenized assets.

Michael Weisz, new CEO of Kamino (Kamino)

Policy

Clarity Act's odds of passing plunge as Republicans reject Democrats' counter-proposal

Prediction markets sharply marked down the crypto market structure bill’s near-term prospects as negotiations remained stuck hours before a key Senate vote.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)