Ian Allison

Business Reporter

Ian is a financial technology reporter at International Business Times and Newsweek, with particular interests in crypto-economics and machine learning. He is the State Street data and innovation journalist of the year 2017. Ian attended the University of Edinburgh where he graduated with joint honours in English and Philosophy.

Blockchain Pioneer Lisk on the philosophy of decentralisation

Public blockchain networks live or die by the strength of their communities.

Messari: Building a Bloomberg for the crypto-asset universe

Messari just closed a seed round led by Anthemis Group, Blockchain Capital, CoinFund, Digital Asset Investment Company (DAICO) and Matthew Roszak.

Kleros: Ethereum smart contracts meet ancient Greek legal democracy

Kleros borrows from the way the ancient Greeks resolved disputes in a democratic manner, and adds game theoretical incentives via a blockchain token.

Smart contract experts Ilya Sergey and Evan Cheng join Zilliqa as advisors

Third generation sharded blockchain from University of Singapore has added two of the world's foremost experts in smart contracts to their advisory team.

Blockstack announces another token sale - this time open to all investors

Blockstack partners with Republic to offer seven figure token pre-sale to non-accredited investors

Cardano: The nitty-gritty of next generation blockchains

IOHK's Charles Hoskinson talks about scalability and consensus.

Cryptocurrency supporters react to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney's speech

The BoE chief said it is time for cryptocurrencies to meet the same level of regulation as the rest of the financial system.

Credit Suisse and ING do first securities lending on R3's Corda blockchain platform

Credit Suisse and ING swapped baskets of securities of value EUR 25 million using the HQLAx Corda-based collateral lending application.

Winter for blockchain token sales? SEC swoops on ICOs

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued dozens of subpoenas and information requests to technology companies and advisers involved in ICOs.

Ethereum-based insurtech Etherisc announces token event

First decentralized insurance platform opens registration for Token Generating Event.

Blockchain investment platform BnkToTheFuture raises $33m

The second phase of BnkToTheFuture's public sale for a tokenized secondary market sold out in under three minutes.

Siafunds token opts to be classed a security under SEC rules

Sia CEO David Vorick talks about his eventual decision to follow the accredited investors route for the siafunds token sale.

UK Treasury mulls regulating cryptocurrency 'whilst not stifling innovation'

The inquiry will formulate a regulatory response to digital currencies from the Government, the FCA and the Bank of England.

Cardano's Ouroboros: Proving Proof of Stake can work in the wild

Aggelos Kiayias, the Chief Scientist at IOHK, aims to provide the first theoretical analysis of PoS.

CoinDesk announces 'Blockchain Week New York City'

New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is partnering for free to attend blockchain jobs fair.

'We enable blockchain creation': Lisk relaunches to rapturous reception

Offering JavaScript and sidechains, the new look Lisk is aiming for the big time.

Cardano and Z/Yen look at threat of quantum computing to blockchain security

The report is titled 'The Quantum Countdown: Quantum Computing and the Future of Distributed Ledger Encryption'.

MakerDAO launches $45m Stable Fund

The fund is being launched in conjunction with 'Web 3' builders L4, to provide developers using Dai with initial capital and help business development.

Bitmain out the bushes with ASIC Ethereum miner

Bitmain is working on an Ethereum ASIC miner, the Antminer F3, according to reports in Chinese technology media.

OpenBazaar adds BCH, Zcash and looks towards tokens

OpenBazaar CEO Brian Hoffman said a token event is being planned for around the end of March.

Cryptocurrency: eToro adds Stellar as investor appetite for crypto grows

Stellar now added to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, XRP, Litecoin, Ethereum Classic and Dash.

BTCC Pool introduces transparent FPPS Bitcoin mining and 1% fees

The new 1% promotion fee for bitcoin mining is the lowest fee in the industry, said BTCC.

Etherisc pushes standard insurable crypto wallet

Etherisc co-founder Stephan Karpischek is looking to create completely new value networks and realign incentives across the whole value chain.

Japan Net Bank tests blockchain with mijin and Hyperledger

Fintech and cryptocurrency solutions company Tech Bureau developed mijin blockchain

Decentralisation experts unpack the problems of 'Web 3.0'

Nick Szabo, Zooko Wilcox and Paul Frazee talk about the goals and challenges of the next generation of the internet.

EDF Energy and Shell join Electron's blockchain energy consortium

Consortium also includes: Baringa, Flexitricity, Kiwi Power, Northern Powergrid, Open Energi, Statkraft and UK Power Networks.

Blockchain not required: Beaker Browser's Paul Frazee on building the decentralsed web

'The original vision of the web was that anybody could create and own their website. It was creative and diverse. Now, all that power to create is on other people's servers.'