Lyllah Ledesma

Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe. She holds a master's degree from New York University in Business and Economics and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of East Anglia. Lyllah holds bitcoin, ether and small amounts of other crypto assets.

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Markets

First Mover Americas: Goldman Leads Blockchain Firm Fnality Raise of $95M

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 14, 2023.

(Pepi Stojanovski/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto Fund Inflows of $293M Bring Yearly Total Above $1B: CoinShares

It's not just bitcoin as ether-related funds saw their largest weekly inflow in more than a year.

A third straight week of strong inflows (CoinShares)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Grayscale’s GBTC Discount Narrows to 10%

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 13, 2023.

GBTC Advertisement John F. Kennedy Airport (Lyllah Ledesma/CoinDesk)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Ether Surges on BlackRock’s ETF Plans

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 10, 2023.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Tech

Near Foundation Joins Celestia in Race to Provide 'Data Availability' for Ethereum Rollups

The project's new "NEAR DA" aims to provide an alternate venue that could handle data produced by Ethereum's fast-growing network or auxiliary blockchains or "layer-2 networks."

Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol (Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Near Foundation and Polygon Labs Collaborate to Build ZK Solution

The aim of the tie-up is to allow for greater interoperability across chains.

Polygon APIs will soon be available on The Graph. (Aquaryus15/Unsplash)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Ordinals Protocol Token Jumps 50%

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 7, 2023.

ORDI price chart (CoinGeko)

Markets

First Mover Americas: FTX Wants to Sell Its GBTC

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 6, 2023.

Grayscale ad (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

What Happens to Bitcoin Price if Spot ETF Isn’t Approved?

Bitcoin's recent strong performance at least in part is due to optimism regarding the imminent launch of multiple spot ETF products.

BitcoinETF: What Comes Next?

Markets

First Mover Americas: Sam Bankman-Fried Guilty on All 7 Counts

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Nov. 3, 2023.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)