Ignite’s workforce reduced by more than half: CoinDesk

Ignite, one of the foremost companies in the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem, this week parted ways with more than half of its workers, CoinDesk reported today, citing two ex-employees and a source close ...

Babel Finance plans to work with restructuring group Houlihan Lokey: CoinDesk

“Babel is looking at restructuring. They’ve hired Houlihan Lokey or are in the process of hiring them. They’re in the process of signing an engagement letter,” one source told CoinDesk. Babel will hav...

CoinDesk Korea Reports Do Kwon’s Terra Has $3.6 Billion in UST and USDT To Manipulate Prices or Launder Money

– Advertisement –   CoinDesk Reports That Do Kwon’s Terra took 4.6 trillion won in slush money. After Terra’s May 7 crash, Uppsala Security and CoinDesk Korea investigated using on-chain d...

Goldman Sachs said to be raising investor funds to buy Celsius assets: CoinDesk

Goldman Sachs is seeking to raise $2 billion from investors to potentially purchase assets from troubled crypto lender Celsius, two people familiar with the matter told CoinDesk. The investors would b...

Binance.US is raising an additional $50 million, CoinDesk reports

Binance.US, the stateside arm of crypto exchange Binance, is looking to raise up to $50 million at a $4.5 billion valuation, CoinDesk reported on Tuesday.  The upcoming round won’t necessarily r...

Binance CZ Condemns the Coindesk Report Alleging TerraForm Labs Owns the Wallet That Triggered $UST Implosion 

– Advertisement – The founder of Binance has joined FatMan in condemning the joint report published by Coindesk and Uppsala Security.  Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, the founder and CEO of world’s l...

Top Crypto Exchange LBank at Coindesk Consensus 2022: Successful Exhibition, Inspiring Speaking Session, and Full-house Afterparty

INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Jun. 15, 2022 – Global crypto exchange, LBank, joined Coindesk Consensus as a first-time sponsor and exhibitor, hosting an insightful speaking session and attracting a diverse cr...

Terra Influencer FatMan Spots Loopholes in Coindesk Korea Report Accusing TerraForm Labs Crashing UST and LUNA

– Advertisement – The popular whistleblower has come to the defense of TFL, as he identifies a major loophole that makes the Coindesk Terra report false. Popular Terra influencer who is kn...

Top crypto exchange LBank joined Coindesk Consensus 2022 as a sponsor and exhibitor

Global crypto exchange, LBank, joined Coindesk Consensus as a first-time sponsor and exhibitor, hosting an insightful speaking session and attracting a diverse crowd of attendees to their LBank & ...

Top Crypto Exchange LBank at Coindesk Consensus 2022: Successful Exhibition, Inspiring Speaking Session and Full-house Afterparty

Global crypto exchange, LBank, joined Coindesk Consensus as a first-time sponsor and exhibitor, hosting an insightful speaking session and attracting a diverse crowd of attendees to their LBank & ...

CoinDesk Korea Discloses Revelations That Terraform Labs Wallets Caused UST Depegging

– Advertisement – New Investigations Shows Terra Owns the Wallet That Crashed LUNA and UST. More than one month after Terra ecosystem tokens, UST, and LUNA collapse, new revelations contin...

CoinDesk Confidential: Meltem Demirors

Meltem Demirors – renegade crypto advocate and chief strategy officer at the $4 billion digital asset investment firm CoinShares – just wants to have fun. No clearer example: She ditched the oil indus...

CoinDesk Confidential: Auryn Macmillan

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CoinDesk Confidential: Ambre Soubiran

Ambre Soubiran is the chief executive of one of crypto’s most essential data startups, Kaiko. A mathematician by training, Soubrian left an analyst job at HSBC for the crypto industry, predictin...

CoinDesk Confidential: Bradley Miles

Bradley Miles, co-founder of social token infrastructure platform Roll, owns bitcoin, does not own DOGE and thinks in 100 years there will be fewer currencies. His platform is built for the creator ec...

CoinDesk Confidential: Loretta Joseph

CoinDesk Confidential is a version of the Proust Questionnaire, an interview style popularized during that French novelist’s age. It asks a series of questions – some personal, some philosophica...

CoinDesk Confidential: Robin Schmidt

Robin Schmidt is Supermassive.one. He’s also the head of multimedia at The Defiant, where he churns out some of the highest quality videos documenting the emergence of “decentralized finan...

CoinDesk Confidential: Kristin Smith

The Proust Questionnaire – an old-style magazine format popular in the French novelist’s day – asks a series of personal, philosophical and prosaic questions that, in theory, present a side of a...

Crypto exchange Bitso lays off 80 employees, CoinDesk reports

advertisement Latin American crypto exchange Bitso laid off 80 members of staff on Thursday, CoinDesk reported.  Bitso had more than 700 employees before the layoffs and still lists more than 60 open ...

CoinDesk Confidential: Alex Masmej

The Proust Questionnaire – an old-style magazine format popular in the French novelist’s day – asks a series of personal, philosophical and prosaic questions that, in theory, present a side of a...

CoinDesk Relaunches Social Token Into the Wild

The new DESK is an ERC-20 standard token on the mainnet, or live version, of the blockchain. However, to avoid congestion on Ethereum, the revamped DESK runs on Polygon. This is a sidechain, or parall...

Terraform Labs CEO pseudonymously co-created failed stablecoin project Basis Cash, CoinDesk reports

CoinDesk reported Wednesday that Do Kwon, co-founder and chief executive of the development firm behind the Terra blockchain, was closely involved with an earlier stablecoin effort that failed to gain...

CoinDesk executive director says executive order triggered crypto bulls

The executive order on digital assets signed by US President Joe Biden on Thursday has created a bullish sentiment across the crypto market. On Wednesday, Bitcoin gained from around $38K to $42K. The ...

2022 Global Inflationary Pressures Drive Up Bitcoin Demand

The United States, Eurozone, United Kingdom among many other economies are experiencing record levels of increased inflation resulting from numerable factors including the massive quantitative easing ...

CoinDesk executive Emily Parker says CBDCs will boost demand for private cryptocurrencies

The executive director for CoinDesk, Emily Parker, has addressed the key differences between central bank digital currencies and private cryptocurrencies. Central bank digital currencies have been a h...

Important Disclosure About CoinDesk and Digital Currency Group

In 2022, CoinDesk is rolling out a program whereby certain high-performing employees throughout the ranks, most of whom have been here more than a year, receive stock appreciation rights (SAR) in DCG ...

CoinDesk formally joins Tether Freedom of Information case in New York, Tether responds

CoinDesk has formally joined the legal proceedings between Tether and the New York Attorney General in a case centering on the release of company documents to the news outlet. The conflict dates back ...