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.

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Finance

Institutional DeFi Push Continues as Ethereum Scaler Nahmii Launches Mainnet

The project’s $8 million funding round included Sam Cassatt’s Aligned Capital and Kavita Gupta’s Delta Fund.

Nahmii aims to boost Ethereum's speed. (Marc-Olivier Jodoin/Unsplash)

Finance

Blockchain Startup Swash Raises $4M to Make Data Monetization Click

The funding round was led by KuCoin, Outlier Ventures and Streamr.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Why Civic Technologies Is Building DeFi Identity Tools on Solana

Solrise Finance will host the Civic Pass, which aims to make DeFi chime with institutions.

Civic Technologies CEO Chris Hart (Civic)

Finance

Get Ready for Investor Fan Tokens: Polychain Backs Prysm’s Approach to ‘Social Investing’

The platform aims to let new traders follow “the best investors in DeFi.”

Prysm founders Thomas Scaria (left) and Shelby Thomas (Prysm)

Finance

Polymath to Launch Blockchain Built for Tokenized Stocks

The Polymesh mainnet will go live next month with 14 regulated entities running nodes.

Polymath's Graeme Moore (Polymath)

Finance

Europe’s Largest Stock Exchange to List TRON Exchange-Traded Notes

Global fund manager VanEck has also launched Solana and Polkadot ETNs on Deutsche Börse Xetra.

Tron's Justin Sun speaks at Consensus 2019.

Tech

Interoperability Startup LayerZero Comes Out of Stealth With $6M in Funding

The Series A round led by Multicoin Capital and Binance Labs should help the team build better bridges.

(Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Finance

Major European Bank Said to Be Building Crypto Custody Arm

CACEIS, the European custody bank with $4.96 trillion in assets under custody, is working with Swiss tech firm Metaco, sources say.

Commuters arrive in the La Defense business district of Paris, France, June 9, 2021. (Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Market Making on Polkadot Gets Prospective Boost With $22.3M Raised by dTrade

Which of the investors will be the primary market makers on the derivatives DEX is still to be finalized.

(Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm Fireblocks Opens Switzerland Office

Morgan Stanley alum Ana Santillan and former Bitcoin Suisse executive Richard Astle will co-lead the new office.

(Stephen Leonardi/Unsplash)