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Ian Allison

Senior Reporter

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

DARMA Capital Bets $3M on Scalable DeFi Exchange With Settlement Finality

Nahmii, not Polygon, is where DARMA is placing its bet on layer 2 scaling solutions.

May 11, 2021

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Finance

DeFi More Disruptive to Banks Than Bitcoin, Says ING

ING’s deep dive into DeFi includes a case study of lending platform Aave.

May 6, 2021

ING Bank, Netherlands

Finance

DeFi Conglomerate Equilibrium Raises $8.5M to Win a Place on Polkadot

Phase one for the project reached its 250,000 DOT token hard cap. Phase two is looking to net the remaining 750,000 DOT required to land a parachain.

May 4, 2021

Members of the Equilibrium team

Finance

NYSE-Owner ICE Sold Coinbase Stake for $1.2B

The NYSE participated in Coinbase’s Series C $75 million funding round in January 2015.

Apr 30, 2021

New York Stock Exchange

Finance

Team Behind Argo Blockchain Launches London-Listed DeFi Fund

Dispersion Holdings lists on Aquis Stock Exchange Growth Market using an auspicious ticker symbol: DEFI.

Apr 30, 2021

London

Finance

Commerzbank, Deutsche Börse Team Up for Tokenized Real Estate and Art Marketplace

The financial institutions are working with fintech firm 360X, with first tokenized transactions coming later this year.

Apr 29, 2021

Albrecht Dürer, Feast of Rose Garlands

Finance

Crypto Trading Business Apifiny Snags FINRA Broker-Dealer License

Apifiny connects professional traders with 40-odd global exchanges to search the best execution prices.

Apr 29, 2021

Apifiny's employees in a photo from 2020.

Finance

Bumper, a DeFi-Based Crypto Volatility Protection Plan, Raises $10M

The project shields users from crypto’s dips. Under the hood, it’s all about DeFi.

Apr 28, 2021

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Finance

'AWS for Blockchains' Alchemy Closes $80M Funding Round at $505M Valuation

Alchemy powers most of DeFi and almost all the big NFT platforms. The round was co-led by Coatue Management.

Apr 28, 2021

Left to right: Joe Lau, Alchemy co-founder, and chief technology officer; Nikil Viswanathan, Alchemy co-founder and CEO; John Hennessy, Google chairman and Alchemy investor

Finance

Helium to Launch 5G Network With Blockchain-Powered Mesh of DIY Telco Hubs

The number of Helium hotspots has reached 30,000 since 2019, with 200,000 more in the pipeline.

Apr 27, 2021

Helium team, left to right: Pierre Defebvre, Andrew Allen, Rahul Garg, Brian Bussiere.
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