Jesse Hamilton

Deputy Managing Editor, Global Policy and Regulation

Jesse Hamilton is CoinDesk's deputy managing editor on the Global Policy and Regulation team, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022, he worked for more than a decade covering Wall Street regulation at Bloomberg News and Businessweek, writing about the early whisperings among federal agencies trying to decide what to do about crypto. He’s won several national honors in his reporting career, including from his time as a war correspondent in Iraq and as a police reporter for newspapers. Jesse is a graduate of Western Washington University, where he studied journalism and history. He has no crypto holdings.

Latest from Jesse Hamilton

Policy

U.S. Senators Berate SEC's Gensler for Agency's 'Unethical' Handling of Crypto Case

Republican lawmakers wrote to the SEC chairman, arguing that its misrepresenting of evidence against DEBT Box casts doubt on the agency's other enforcement matters.

Feb 8, 2024

Gary Gensler's SEC must now decide what to do about multiple applications for BTC and ETH ETFs (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Prometheum, the Only U.S.-Registered Crypto Platform, Picks Ether as Its First Product

The much-debated crypto broker says it's poised to start its SEC-compliant custody with ETH, then will soon add other names and begin a trading operation within months.

Feb 7, 2024

Co-CEO Aaron Kaplan's Prometheum is planning to start its crypto custody business with Ethereum's ETH. (Screen capture/U.S. House Financial Services Committee)

Policy

U.S. SEC Clears 'Dealer' Rule Expansion That Could Rope in DeFi

The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a final rule Tuesday that DeFi interests call "hostile" to that sector, potentially requiring projects to register as dealers.

Feb 6, 2024

Chair Gary Gensler's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is weighing Hashdex's ETF application, which analysts suggest could have a leg up because of its novel approach. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Treasury Secretary Yellen Says U.S. Needs Better Stablecoin Regulation

"A federal regulator should have the ability to decide if a stablecoin issuer should be barred from issuing such an asset," she told lawmakers on Tuesday.

Feb 6, 2024

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Policy

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Warns of Crypto Risks

Yellen is set to tell U.S. lawmakers that the FSOC is especially wary of stablecoins and the potential for digital asset runs.

Feb 5, 2024

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen is set to warn lawmakers about crypto hazards to financial stability. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Craig Wright Accused of ‘Industrial Scale’ Forgeries in First Day of COPA Trial

The Crypto Open Patent Alliance is unable to provide direct evidence that Wright isn’t Satoshi, counsel for Wright fired back.

Feb 5, 2024

Craig Wright (Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images for London Blockchain Conference )

Policy

India CBDC Insider Reveals Current Stance of Country's Central Bank

India’s central bank is weighing CBDC privacy technology and crypto tax is not part of its domain, a senior official told CoinDesk.

Feb 2, 2024

(L-R) Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India and Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian Finance Minister at the G20 Annual Meetings, in Washington DC in October 2022. (Indian Ministry of Finance)

Policy

U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Overturn SEC's Crypto Accounting Policy

Sen. Lummis and members of the House are pushing to repeal the SEC's Staff Accounting Bulletin 121, an effort that makes it harder for companies to custody crypto.

Feb 1, 2024

SEC Chair Gary Gensler in Washington on Oct. 25, 2023 (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Man Behind Defunct BTC-e Exchange Once Popular with Criminals Faces U.S. Charges

Aliaksandr Klimenka is accused of processing billions in transactions for drug peddlers and cybercriminals throughout much of the 2010s.

Feb 1, 2024

The U.S. Department of Justice grabbed another of the men it alleges moved billions in criminal money at BTC-e. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

U.S. Sen. Lummis Says 'Delicate' Talks Underway Over U.S. Crypto Legislation

Lummis is hopeful a stablecoin bill could move forward in the first half of 2024, before elections increase political pressures in Washington.

Feb 1, 2024

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) is one of the lawmakers asking for more information after the SEC's X account was compromised on Tuesday. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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