Dilin Massand

Dilin Massand is an Associate Talent Booker for CoinDesk TV, where he is responsible for pitching and booking guest interviews, as well as producing segments for daily news and special events programming. Massand graduated from Occidental College with a B.A. in Diplomacy and World Affairs and a minor in Media Arts and Culture. He received the 2021 Young Award for Most Innovative Thesis from the Diplomacy and World Affairs department for his research on settler colonialism in big tech. Massand developed a keen interest in emerging markets having grown up between the United States and the United Arab Emirates. He holds several cryptocurrencies below CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold.

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Consensus Magazine

Shytoshi Kusama and the SHIB community Proved that ‘Meme Coins’ Are No Joke

With the launch of Shibarium this year, Shytoshi Kusama and the SHIB community have established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in DeFi and Web3.

Shib/Shytoshi Kusama (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Luca Schnetzler: When NFTs Crashed, He Led Pudgy Penguins to Success

While much of the NFT market was taking beatings, the Pudgy Penguins CEO (who's also known as Luca Netz) drove his brand forward, setting up shop with some of the largest retail stores in the country.

Luca Netz (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

How African Students Became Victims of FTX’s Collapse

“We saw an exchange that was supposedly better than every other one we had used, so we let a lot of family and friends get involved with the FTX platform,” FTX Africa’s former education lead Pius Okedinachi told CoinDesk.

FTX Campus Meetup at the Petroleum Training Institute, Warri, Nigeria (FTX)

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We Asked New Yorkers if They’d Heard of Sam Bankman-Fried

“I'd say I'd need to know a little bit more about crypto and how people actually invest in it.” Asking New York City individuals about Sam Bankman-Fried and being on the jury.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Dubai: Launching a Crypto Regulatory Arm to Become a Global Financial Power

The center of the crypto universe has been shifting toward Dubai since March 2022, when the UAE announced the world’s first independent crypto regulator: the Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority. With its stated intention to provide legal clarity for crypto, the No. 5 spot in CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023 has attracted jurisdiction shoppers such as Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao and crypto exchange WazirX.

Founder/CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao, closeup

Consensus Magazine

Abu Dhabi: A Wealthy Middle-East Capital Creating a Bridge From TradFi to Crypto

The heart of crypto in the capital of the United Arab Emirates is actually just offshore in the Abu Dhabi Global Markets, an economic free zone. With a mandate to encourage fintech, the No. 6 spot in CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023 keeps the lines of communications open between regulators and crypto institutions.

Abu Dhabi (Kamil Rogalinski/Unsplash)

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