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

Despite U.S. House Drama, Sens. Gillibrand, Lummis Bullish on Stablecoin Bill and Illicit Finance Legislation

The crypto-oriented duo of Sens. Gillibrand and Lummis are pressing for smaller slices of their wide-reaching crypto bill to get done, and they predict TradFi's arrival in ETFs could help.

Oct 24, 2023

U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Cynthia Lummis are hopeful about aspects of their sweeping crypto bill. (Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock for CoinDesk)

Policy

FTX Creditors' Lawyers Promote Deal Giving Investors 90% of What's Left in SBF's Empire

Lawyers for non-U.S. creditors of FTX are arguing that they've got a great deal in the exchange's bankruptcy, giving those who had funds in FTX.com 90% of the liquidation.

Oct 23, 2023

Close up of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried

Policy

Grayscale Court Victory Over SEC in Spot Bitcoin ETF Case Made Final

Grayscale's application to convert its GBTC to a spot ETF will now be re-considered by the SEC.

Oct 23, 2023

Grayscale's Michael Sonnenshein speaks at Invest: NYC 2019 (CoinDesk)

Policy

Coinbase Poised to Make Final Pitch in Bid to Kill SEC Accusations Quickly

The U.S. crypto exchange is ready to argue the SEC's claims about unregistered securities are missing evidence of actual contracts.

Oct 23, 2023

Coinbase is accusing Chair Gary Gensler's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of improper procedure in its handling of crypto oversight. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

SEC Drops Charges Against Ripple CEO Garlinghouse, Chairman Larsen

The regulator had included them as defendants in its securities violation case revolving around XRP transactions, and the agency now says it's just pursuing the central Ripple case.

Oct 19, 2023

SEC Chair Gary Gensler and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Kevin Dietsch/Getty and Scott Moore/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Policy

Grayscale ETF Case's Final Word Coming in Federal Court as SEC Loss Formalized

The court that ordered the SEC to scrap its rejection of Grayscale's spot bitcoin ETF application will set that ruling in stone by Monday.

Oct 19, 2023

Policy

U.S. Treasury Seeks to Name Crypto Mixers as 'Money Laundering Concern'

Under pressure to address reports that Hamas and other terrorist groups are partially funded with crypto, Treasury's FinCEN proposed a rule to categorize mixers as a threat.

Oct 19, 2023

Edificio del Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos, en Washington D. C. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Top U.S. Bank Regulator Faulted for Lack of Crypto Guidance to Banks

The FDIC's watchdog concluded the agency has been lax in figuring out how to guide U.S. bankers on crypto matters, and it called for a new strategy by January.

Oct 18, 2023

Policy

U.S. Sen. Warren Leads Lawmakers to Push Administration on Crypto-Backed Terrorism

In a letter to top U.S. security officials, 102 lawmakers demanded to know what the Treasury Department and others are doing to prevent the use of crypto to finance terrorism.

Oct 18, 2023

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and more than a hundred lawmaker colleagues from both parties are pushing the Biden administration to address crypto-backed terrorism. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Policy

U.S. Treasury Targets Gaza Crypto Business in Sanctions to Squeeze Hamas

The Treasury Department issued a list of sanctions that included a business providing money transfers and digital assets exchange services in Gaza.

Oct 18, 2023

The U.S. Treasury Department's financial crimes arm reported on the use of bitcoin in human trafficking and other global crimes. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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