Zack Seward

Contributing Editor-at-Large

Zack Seward is CoinDesk’s contributing editor-at-large. Up until July 2022, he served as CoinDesk’s deputy editor-in-chief. Prior to joining CoinDesk in November 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a news site focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Before that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations, WHYY in Philadelphia and WXXI in Rochester, New York. Seward originally hails from San Francisco and went to college at the University of Chicago. He worked at the PBS NewsHour in Washington, D.C., before attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Latest from Zack Seward

Finanzas

Diginex Raises $20M Ahead of SPAC Listing on Nasdaq

Diginex, the firm behind the newly launched EQUOS.io crypto exchange, has raised $20 million ahead of an anticipated Nasdaq listing later this month.

Sep 8, 2020

Finanzas

Electric Capital's New $110M VC Fund Is 90% Institutions

Crypto VC firm Electric Capital has closed its second fund at $110 million. Of the money raised, 90% of it is institutional capital.

Aug 3, 2020

Electric Capital co-founders Curtis Spencer (left) and Avichal Garg (Electric Capital)

Finanzas

Dharma Adds Uniswap Trading in Bid to Become ‘the Robinhood of DeFi’

Dharma, the Coinbase-backed decentralize finance startup, is adding token-exchange protocol Uniswap as its latest in-app offering.

Jul 30, 2020

Dharma wheel (Met Museum, modified by CoinDesk)

Mercados

CoinDesk Live Recap: The DAO Hack Is Still a Mystery

The DAO attack was a foundational episode in Ethereum history. On Tuesday, CoinDesk Live gathered a handful of blockchain veterans to look back.

Jul 30, 2020

Mercados

CoinDesk Live Recap: Ethereum Culture, Explained

Maker Foundation board member Tonya Evans and former ConsenSys CMO Amanda Cassatt joined Leigh Cuen on Monday to discuss Ethereum’s ethos.

Jul 28, 2020

Leigh Cuen, Amanda Cassatt and Tonya Evans discuss Ethereum on CoinDesk Live. (Screenshot)

Finanzas

Orchid VPN Goes Live With Desktop App for Mac Users

An Ethereum-based service for privately browsing the web now has a desktop app for Mac users.

Jul 23, 2020

Finanzas

Kraken Adds 3 DeFi Tokens – COMP, KAVA, KNC

Riding the surge of interest in yield farming, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is listing three tokens from the world of decentralized finance.

Jul 14, 2020

(The Trustees of the British Museum, modified using PhotoMosh)

Finanzas

New Layoffs Hit Ethereum Incubator ConsenSys

ConsenSys is laying off dozens more staffers, two people familiar with the matter tell CoinDesk.

Apr 20, 2020

The ConsenSys headquarters pictured in 2016. (Credit: CoinDesk archives)

Regulación

US Senate Floats 'Digital Dollar' Bill After House Scrubs Term From Coronavirus Relief Plan

A draft bill posted Tuesday to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs defines a "digital dollar" and details how it might be maintained.

Mar 24, 2020

U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. (lazyllama/Shutterstock)

Mercados

Ethereum Incubator ConsenSys Slashes Headcount 14% in Latest Strategic Shift

Ethereum venture studio ConsenSys is shifting focus – and downsizing as a result.

Feb 4, 2020

ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin (CoinDesk)