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

Big Tech's AI auditors will only see what they're shown

If the White House accord's audits are going to be worth anything, auditors should be able to choose what they test, writes Samuel Vance-Law, head of research at the Decentralization Research Center.

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Opinion

America's growing digital economy requires power grid updates. Who will foot the bill?

Congress must decide how the U.S. can build the infrastructure its booming digital economy requires while protecting the communities that host it.

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Finance

Peter Thiel-backed Founders Fund leads a $5 million token buy in crypto collateral protocol Anvil

Pantera Capital and Bullish also participated in the ANVL purchase as Anvil rolls out software designed to make its collateral protocol easier for businesses to integrate.

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Opinion

Crypto is expanding the boundaries of what can be priced

The future of crypto may therefore depend less on creating the next novel asset and more on building the infrastructure required to price a growing universe of existing ones, argues Altius co-founder and CEO Annabelle Huang.

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Finance

OKX draws investment from StanChart, Circle, Ripple as it pushes beyond crypto exchange roots

The exchange is increasingly aiming to position itself as a global financial tech platform spanning crypto, payments and tokenized assets, following an investment and joint venture with NYSE parent ICE.

OKX founder Star Xu (OKX)

Finance

Stripe to expand stablecoin cards to over 100 countries by the end of the year

The payments giant is planning a major global expansion for its stablecoin cards business, and is exploring tokenized deposits and DeFi use cases, new crypto head Henri Stern said.

Henri Stern, co-founder of Privy and new head of stablecoins and crypto at Stripe (Stripe)

Finance

Payments firm OpenPayd targets year-end Nasdaq listing to fund U.S. expansion and acquisitions

CEO Iana Dimitrova said OpenPayd aims to launch in the U.S. by April 2027 and is eyeing deals to add licenses and technology.

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Markets

Cathie Wood says smart investors need to start watching where AI agents spend money

As AI agents evolve from answering questions to spending real money, investors and tech giants are scrambling to control the financial networks powering machine-driven commerce.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Opinion

Crypto's Sisyphean struggle

Progress will effectively reset when the new Congress is sworn in, because key senators who quarterbacked the bill will not be on the ballot again, writes the Cato Institute's Ryan Chan-Wei.

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Opinion

America at a crossroads: Commissioner Peirce’s parting challenge

It is incumbent upon us to continue Commissioner Peirce’s mission, writes Will Schwartz, policy associate at the Blockchain Association.

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