Xinyi Luo

Xinyi Luo

Xinyi Luo, a financial reporter with a background in broadcast journalism, joined CoinDesk Layer 2's team as a features and opinion intern in June 2022. She is a graduate of Missouri School of Journalism. You can connect with her on Twitter @luo_trista. She does not currently hold any cryptocurrencies.

Social

Recent

(Kanchanara/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)
10 Predictions for the Future of Crypto in 2023
What does the next year hold for crypto? We’ve rounded up predictions from smart people in the space – from the bullish to the skeptical.
(Kanchanara/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)
CPPI halts exploration of crypto investments (Kai Pilger/Unsplash)
Canada’s Largest Pension Fund No Longer Mulling Crypto Investment: Reuters
CPP Investment has nearly $400 billion in assets under management.
CPPI halts exploration of crypto investments (Kai Pilger/Unsplash)
(Yunha/CoinDesk)
Bitcoin Miners Offered Way to Cut Texas Electricity Usage to Help the Grid
The state's interim, voluntary program to lower power consumption during high demand periods, might go live as early as Jan. 1, 2023.
(Yunha/CoinDesk)
Sonar "moji" NFTs on OpenSea. (OpenSea)
Aave Acquires NFT Mobile Game Sonar for Lens Social Media Integration
With the acquisition, Lens Protocol will be integrated into a game app which claims to have 20,000 active users per month.
Sonar "moji" NFTs on OpenSea. (OpenSea)
Will Ess and Adam Levine of 330AI (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
The Artist and Technology Behind 36 AI Portraits
How to generate three dozen portraits for the Most Influential 2022 in about a week? Meet Pixelmind.ai, the app that saved this CoinDesk feature from visual ennui.
Will Ess and Adam Levine of 330AI (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
Mu Changchun (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
Guiding the Chinese Central Bank Digital Currency the World Admires and Fears
Many nations, especially the economic superpowers, began the year in fear of being left behind by China’s relentless progress with its digital yuan. For leading the developmen...
Mu Changchun (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
Adam Brotman (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
Blending the World’s Most Successful Loyalty Program With Web3
The brains behind Starbucks Rewards, which has 60 million members, is back to design Starbucks Odyssey, a Web3 loyalty program. That's why Adam Brotman is one of CoinDesk’s Mo...
Adam Brotman (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
Pali Bhat (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
A Rookie Knocks Reddit’s NFT Marketplace Out of the Park
In the first three months of Reddit's r/NFTsMarketplace, more users opened wallets than all the users on top NFT marketplace OpenSea. That’s why Pali Bhat is one of CoinDesk’s...
Pali Bhat (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
Sam Trabucco (Alameda Research)
Who Is Alameda's Former co-CEO Sam Trabucco?
The former co-CEO of Alameda Research took steps to distance himself from the firm before and after announcing his departure.
Sam Trabucco (Alameda Research)
FTX CTO Gary Wang (Crunchbase)
Who Is Gary Wang, the Mysterious Co-Founder of FTX and Alameda?
Not much is known about Bankman-Fried’s close confidant – the co-founder of both FTX and Alameda Research.
FTX CTO Gary Wang (Crunchbase)