Elizabeth Napolitano

Elizabeth Napolitano was a data journalist at CoinDesk, where she reported on topics such as decentralized finance, centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, altcoins, and Web3. She has covered technology and business for NBC News and CBS News. In 2022, she received an ACP national award for breaking news reporting.

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Policy

FTX Seeks to Recover $71M From Its Philanthropic and Life Science Arms

The firms funneled corporate funds to other organizations on behalf of their founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s "personal aggrandizement," a court filing shows.

(Pixabay)

Policy

SEC Chair Gensler Cites 'Wild West' of Crypto in Case to Increase Agency's Budget

The chairman asked U.S. lawmakers for $72 million in extra funding to, among other things, protect investors from crypto markets “rife with noncompliance.”

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Policy

U.S. Secret Service Seizes Funds From Bahamian Bank Deltec Amid Fraud Investigation

U.S. authorities were authorized to confiscate up to roughly $58 million from the bank’s U.S. accounts.

U.S. Secret Service officer (Getty Images)

Policy

SEC's Gensler Says AI Could Play Big Role in Future Financial Crises

Artificial intelligence “may heighten financial fragility as it could promote herding,” the regulator said in a speech.

Chairman for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Gary Gensler. (SEC, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

DOJ Charges Moroccan Man With Stealing $450K in OpenSea Spoofing Scam

Officials allege the man set up a lookalike website based on the popular NFT marketplace to steal victims' digital art collectibles.

A "Bored Ape Yacht Club" NFT allegedly stolen by Soufiane Oulahyane (Dept. of Justice)

Policy

Grayscale Argues Leveraged Bitcoin Futures ETF Approval Shows Spot ETF Should Be Approved

The crypto asset manager is suing the SEC for rejecting its bitcoin ETF application last year.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Top Binance Execs Leave Company Over CZ’s Handling of DOJ Investigation: Report

Three senior officials left the exchange this week, a source told Fortune.

Binance's Changpeng "CZ" Zhao

Tech

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Application Refiled, Naming Coinbase as ‘Surveillance-Sharing’ Partner

Refiled application by Nasdaq to list a BlackRock bitcoin ETF follows a report last week that the SEC deemed earlier proposals "inadequate" since they didn't specify the name of the underlying market in so-called surveillance-sharing agreements.

BlackRock's corporate office in New York, New York. (Jim.henderson/Wikimedia Commons)

Policy

Ex-FTX Compliance Officer Sued for Allegedly Paying Off Would-Be Whistleblowers

FTX's lawyers allege Daniel Friedberg allowed its executives' criminal activities to fly under the radar for years.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Consensus Magazine

New York City: A Crypto Sandbox in a Big Business Playground

The Big Apple is big everything. The world’s financial center, it also has a huge population not only of talented developers to hire, but consumers to sell to. In such a huge and bustling ecosystem, crypto may not rate as the city’s highest priority. But like it or not, the No. 12 spot in CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023 is a place crypto companies must be.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)