BlockFi

Old Guard Meets New Guard: Integrating Payment Networks
Old Guard Meets New Guard: Integrating Payment Networks
At Consensus 2022, Alex Adelman (Lolli), Tammy Camp (Stronghold), Flori Marquez (BlockFi) and Raj Dhamodharan (Mastercard) discuss the interactions between traditional finance...
Old Guard Meets New Guard: Integrating Payment Networks

BlockFi has $1.8 billion in open loans and $600 million exposure. (CoinDesk)
Crypto Lender BlockFi Had $1.8B in Open Loans at End of June and $600M of Exposure
The company has released a quarter-end snapshot of a number of operating statistics.
BlockFi has $1.8 billion in open loans and $600 million exposure. (CoinDesk)

WisdomTree Exec on Future of U.S. Bitcoin Spot ETF Race
WisdomTree Exec on Future of U.S. Bitcoin Spot ETF Race
WisdomTree Head of Digital Assets Will Peck discusses his take on the U.S. spot bitcoin ETF race following a string of rejections from the SEC, sharing an update on the asset...
WisdomTree Exec on Future of U.S. Bitcoin Spot ETF Race

BlockFi advertisement in Washington D.C.'s Union Station (CoinDesk)
BlockFi Quickly Reverses Plan to Stop Accepting GBTC as Collateral
The troubled crypto lender BlockFi said earlier Tuesday that it would no longer accept shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust as collateral. A few hours later, the company said...
BlockFi advertisement in Washington D.C.'s Union Station (CoinDesk)

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Crypto News Roundup for July 8, 2022
With some fresh technical indicators suggesting a bullish revival ahead in the crypto markets and a look at what some crypto lenders got wrong from the get go, CoinDesk’s “Mar...
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Crypto Winter Hits NFTs; 3AC Files for Bankruptcy
Crypto Winter Hits NFTs; 3AC Files for Bankruptcy
Monthly NFT sales fall below US$1 billion for the first time in a year. Three Arrows Capital files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in the US. Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX doubles down on...
Crypto Winter Hits NFTs; 3AC Files for Bankruptcy

Subsidizing shadow-banking yields turns out to be a really, really bad idea. (Getty Images/wakila)
From One to Zero: BlockFi’s Fire Sale Shows the Uber Startup Model Is Disastrous for Finance
Peter Thiel’s monopolistic theories about building companies have clearly hit their limit: banking.
Subsidizing shadow-banking yields turns out to be a really, really bad idea. (Getty Images/wakila)

BlockFi advertisement in Washington D.C.'s Union Station (CoinDesk archives)
Ledn Makes Competing Bid for Troubled Crypto Lender BlockFi: Report
BlockFi CEO Zac Prince denied a story that his company had agreed to a sale to FTX for just $25 million.
BlockFi advertisement in Washington D.C.'s Union Station (CoinDesk archives)

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
FTX Close to Buying BlockFi for Just $25M
The beleaguered crypto lender was reportedly close to finalizing a down round valuing it at $1 billion earlier this month.
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Ledger Live Adds Yield Earning Capability via Alkemi Earn
Ledger Live Adds Yield Earning Capability via Alkemi Earn
Hardware wallet maker Ledger has brought yield earning capability to its users through an integration with lending-borrowing protocol Alkemi Earn. “The Hash” discusses the rol...
Ledger Live Adds Yield Earning Capability via Alkemi Earn