Aaron Stanley
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Arlington, VA, United States
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Tom Brady to Speak at Consensus 2021
The seven-time Super Bowl Champion and NFT platform co-founder joins FTX and Alameda Research founder Sam Bankman-Fried on May 27. → Read More
CoinDesk Joins IMF, CFTC, Swiss FINMA at DC Fintech Week Oct. 19, 2020
The virtual event brings together marquee names from Switzerland’s FINMA, Sweden’s Riksbank, Bank for International Settlements, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the International Monetary Fund to discuss stablecoin regulation, central bank digital currencies, the future of money and more. → Read More
CoinDesk Joins IMF, CFTC, Swiss FINMA at DC Fintech Week Oct. 19, 2020
The virtual event brings together marquee names from Switzerland’s FINMA, Sweden’s Riksbank, Bank for International Settlements, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the International Monetary Fund to discuss stablecoin regulation, central bank digital currencies, the future of money and more. → Read More
Internet 2030: The Future and How We Get There
Filecoin’s Juan Benet and Colin Evran, Consensys’ John Wolpert and Brave’s Brendan Eich discuss the future of decentralized web on CoinDesk Live, Sept. 15-16. → Read More
SEC Official Says 'Plain English' Guidance On ICOs Is Coming
SEC Director of Corporation Finance William Hinman said the agency plans to release a "plain English" explanation of when a token sale is a security. → Read More
Uncharted Bitcoin OTC Markets Gear Up For Institutional Inflows
As bitcoin markets continue to mature and institutional investors take interest, the murky world of crypto over-the-counter trading is readying itself to come out of the shadows and embrace the new influx of capital → Read More
Ready To Rumble: IBM Launches Food Trust Blockchain For Commercial Use
After 18 months in production, the IBM Food Trust blockchain platform is now commercially available, bringing with it windfall promises of improving the traceability of food products and delivering a huge momentum boost for the enterprise blockchain industry → Read More
Overstock To Sell Bitcoin Through Its Website In 2019 With Bitsy Wallet
Online retailer Overstock moves closer to full crypto functionality with beta launch of Bitsy wallet, a portfolio company of its blockchain-focused subsidiary Medici Ventures → Read More
New York Regulator Greenlights Paxos Ethereum-Based Stablecoin
A fully U.S. dollar-collateralized stablecoin has earned the approval of crypto's toughest regulatory regime → Read More
ZEN Masters: Grayscale Launches New Investment Trust For Zcash Spinoff
With the ZEN Investment Trust, digital asset manager Grayscale Investments is rolling out its ninth regulated cryptocurrency investment vehicle → Read More
Token Alliance: Utility Tokens 'Under Threat Of Extinction By Regulation' In U.S.
The Token Alliance, a group of crypto industry practitioners convened by the Chamber of Digital Commerce, is warning that utility tokens in the U.S. could soon go the way of the dinosaurs and the Dodo bird because of regulatory uncertainty → Read More
U.S. Chamber Calls For Regulatory Clarity On Cryptocurrencies, Initial Coin Offerings
As part of a new fintech initiative, the largest business lobby group in the U.S. is adding its name to the growing list of actors calling for more regulatory clarity around cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings → Read More
U.S. Secret Service: Action Needed To Address Anonymous Cryptocurrencies
Senior U.S. law enforcement officials called on Congress to address the threats posed by the use of anonymity-enhanced cryptocurrencies in illicit finance. → Read More
Ex-Overstock Chairman Committed To Crypto Despite Market Woes, Calls For U.S. Regulatory Clarity
Speaking at the Heritage Foundation, Jonathan Johnson, former chairman of Overstock.com and current president of Medici Ventures, doubled-down on his companies' commitment to blockchain and cryptocurrencies while issuing a call for more regulatory clarity on coin offerings from Congress and the SEC → Read More
Streamr Partners With Nokia And OSIsoft On IoT Data Sharing And Monetization
Streamr, the blockhain-based data sharing platform, announced the launch of its data marketplace at Consensus 2018 while adding high profile names Nokia, Hewlett-Packard and OSIsoft to its client roster → Read More
St. Louis Fed President Warns Of U.S. Drift Toward Non-Uniform Cryptocurrencies
James Bullard warned in a keynote Consensus address that the explosion of different cryptocurrencies is pushing in the 'wrong direction' away from facilitating market-based exchange by recreating the headaches of the 1800s that led to the development of uniform currency monetary policy → Read More
SEC Official Offers New Hope For Utility Tokens In Congressional Testimony
The head of the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance said that it's hypothetically possible in the agency's view to hold a utility token sale that would not constitute a securities issuance → Read More
Brazil To Allow Funds To 'Indirectly' Invest In Cryptocurrencies
Just months after prohibiting investment funds from directly buying crypto assets, Brazil's securities regulators are opening the door for indirect investments provided that certain guidelines are followed → Read More
Five Takeaways From The GAO Fintech Report
The Government Accountability Office has released a report 126 page report examining the fintech regulatory logjam in the United States. I read the report so you don't have to and present five key takeaways. → Read More
Why São Paulo Wants to Pay for Infrastructure with Cryptocurrency
The Brazilian state wants to pay for feasibility studies with a token designed for the construction industry. Can such a coin achieve network effect? → Read More