Jacquelyn Melinek

Jacquelyn Melinek

Jacquelyn Melinek is the co-founder and CEO of Token Relations and creator of the Talking Tokens newsletter and podcast. She's a former TechCrunch senior crypto reporter and award-nominated host. Her articles are published in over 100 global news outlets and she’s been a featured guest on CNBC Worldwide Exchange, CBS News Prime Time and Yahoo Finance Live for her crypto coverage and analysis.

Hut 8 CEO sees opportunity for bitcoin mining sites to become AI data centers

Hut 8 CEO sees opportunity for bitcoin mining sites to become AI data centers

“That’s why we love bitcoin mining because it allows us to capture sites people don’t think are valuable today," its CEO Asher Genoot said

Jacquelyn Melinek
Jacquelyn Melinek
Crypto VC funds facing “massive decline” as allocators provide less capital

Crypto VC funds facing “massive decline” as allocators provide less capital

Capital allocation in crypto has fallen about 63% from 2021 to 2024, but funds want to raise more, says David Nage, Arca's VC PM

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Jacquelyn Melinek
Hybrid L2 BoB is trying to help more DeFi projects build on Bitcoin

Hybrid L2 BoB is trying to help more DeFi projects build on Bitcoin

“If you win on Bitcoin the difference is you win the entire market and you can get bigger than any other DeFi project out there today,” says Alexei Zamyatin, cofounder of Build on Bitcoin (BoB).

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Jacquelyn Melinek
TradFi and DeFi adoption may “meet in the middle”

TradFi and DeFi adoption may “meet in the middle”

There's already over $12.73 billion in total real world assets onchain

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Jacquelyn Melinek
Ex-Grayscale CEO has a strong outlook for spot bitcoin ETFs and crypto IPOs

Ex-Grayscale CEO has a strong outlook for spot bitcoin ETFs and crypto IPOs

"There is a pretty healthy pipeline of unicorn businesses around the crypto ecosystem that would love to come to the public market," Michael Sonnenshein said

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Jacquelyn Melinek
Coinbase Chief Security Officer: scammers are "paying attention to crypto” right now

Coinbase Chief Security Officer: scammers are "paying attention to crypto” right now

“If you were to create a scammer index of bull versus bear market, it would currently be pointing more toward bull than bear,” he said

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Jacquelyn Melinek
Wormhole's Era3 upgrade wants to make multichain experiences better

Wormhole's Era3 upgrade wants to make multichain experiences better

The platform aims to expand beyond "niche problems in crypto" and reach users, institutions and more across as many chains as possible.

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Jacquelyn Melinek
Building on blockchains can be difficult, Aptos Build hopes to fix that

Building on blockchains can be difficult, Aptos Build hopes to fix that

The goal is to help developers and companies build “what they’re best at" in the easiest way possible, says Aptos Labs co-founder and CTO

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Jacquelyn Melinek
Sonic Labs plan for Q4 mainnet has a focus on speed, months after its Fantom rebrand

Sonic Labs plan for Q4 mainnet has a focus on speed, months after its Fantom rebrand

The chain has "quite a few plans" to "dramatically increase the performance of this technology," its CEO and CIO says

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Jacquelyn Melinek
Movement Labs sees Facebook's Move language akin to "the early days of Solana"

Movement Labs sees Facebook's Move language akin to "the early days of Solana"

“I think we’re going to see this language extend everywhere, it’s going to be like the Rust for blockchains,” its co-founder Rushi Manche says

Jacquelyn Melinek
Jacquelyn Melinek