Ian Allison

Ian Allison is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, focused on institutional and enterprise adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Prior to that, he covered fintech for the International Business Times in London and Newsweek online. He won the State Street Data and Innovation journalist of the year award in 2017, and was runner up the following year. He also earned CoinDesk an honourable mention in the 2020 SABEW Best in Business awards. His November 2022 FTX scoop, which brought down the exchange and its boss Sam Bankman-Fried, won a Polk award, Loeb award and New York Press Club award. Ian graduated from the University of Edinburgh. He holds ETH.

Ian Allison

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Finanças

Crypto Conglomerate Digital Currency Group Reports Loss of $1.1B in ‘Challenging’ 2022

DCG held cash and cash equivalents of just $262 million at the end of 2022, while investment assets amounted to $670 million.

Barry Silbert. CEO & Founder Digital Currency Group (DCG)

Finanças

ConsenSys Acquires Easy-to-Use Blockchain Notification Tool 'Hal' to Strengthen Web3 Development

The deal, financial terms of which were not made public, will bring 10 Hal employees to the developer.

(bogdanhoda/Shutterstock)

Política

Canada Close to Tightening Rules for Crypto Exchanges: Sources

The changes will ensure it’s simply too expensive to do business in Canada, said one person familiar with the plans.

(British Library/Unplash)

Finanças

Institutional Crypto Trading Platform Elwood Technologies Expands Offerings

The London-based company is aiming to provide clients with tools that "uphold the standards set by traditional asset classes," CEO James Stickland said.

The GBTC discount widens to a new record high. (m./Unsplash)

Finanças

Binance Is Organizing a Consortium to Try to Rebuild Trust in Crypto: Source

Several companies have already signed up to join, including other crypto exchanges and blockchain analytics firms, according to a person familiar with the plans.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finanças

Crypto Custody Tech Firm Metaco Taps IBM Execs to Revamp Institutional Push

The Swiss crypto tech provider hired IBM’s Peter DeMeo as head of product, as well as former IBM lead architect, Angel Nunez Mencias.

Metaco's leadership team (Metaco)

Finanças

Bankrupt Lender Genesis and Parent DCG Reach Initial Agreement With Main Creditors: Source

The term sheet includes "an equitization of the 10-year promissory note that DCG gave Genesis in return for the 3AC claims," a person familiar with the situation said.

(Genesis Trading, modified by CoinDesk)

Finanças

Crypto Custody Firm Copper Alerted to Security ‘Incident’ Over Christmas

Copper said some “concerning behavior” had been detected, and that a “machine-generated alert had been triggered.”

A Copper-branded keychain (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finanças

UK Crypto Exchange Archax Launches FCA-Regulated Custody Service

The new offering uses tech from Swiss MPC shop Metaco and the IBM Cloud.

1908 photograph of a vault door

Finanças

Fireblocks Enlists Crypto Protection Firm Coincover for Third-Party Key Recovery Service

Coincover said Fireblocks customers can rely on fixed processes and a standard service level agreement.

Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)