Jesse Hamilton

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.

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U.S. Treasury Poised to Release View on How DeFi Used in Illicit Finance

The department has reviewed decentralized finance’s role in such incidents as North Korean ransomware attacks, and will issue a risk assessment, a senior official said.

Elizabeth Rosenberg (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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U.S. Fed’s Supervision Chief Investigating What Happened With Silicon Valley Bank

The Federal Reserve’s vice chairman for supervision, Michael Barr, is digging into the bank failure, the U.S. central bank announced.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michael Barr (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Is This a Crypto Banking Bailout?

It depends on who you ask, but this round of government interventions doesn’t yet resemble the large-scale, taxpayer-involved rescue in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown.

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Senior U.S. House Republican Says CBDCs Could Be ‘Weaponized’ as Political Tool

Majority Whip Tom Emmer is seeking to halt the Federal Reserve’s ability to issue a new digital dollar.

U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Federal Reserve Setting Up New Squad of Crypto Specialists

Michael Barr, the Fed’s vice chairman for supervision, said the central bank is trying not to stomp on crypto innovation and sees the need for stablecoin controls.

Fed Vice Chairman for Supervision Michael Barr (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Crypto Sector’s Reserve Reports Can’t Be Trusted, Says U.S. Audit Watchdog

Proof-of-reserve reviews aren’t audits, says the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and investors shouldn’t count on them.

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Federal Reserve’s Powell: We Don’t Want to Strangle Crypto Innovation, but Sector Is a Mess

The central bank's chairman said the Fed is sticking to its warnings that banks should be “quite cautious” about getting involved in digital assets.

Fed Chair Jay Powell Signaled Easier Monetary Policy on Wednesday (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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U.S. Banking Watchdog: You Can’t Trust Crypto Firms Until They Get Federal Oversight

The chief of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency equated the FTX collapse with a well-known 1990s bank failure in arguing for consolidated industry regulators.

Acting OCC Chief Michael Hsu (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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The Rise and Fall of Silvergate’s Crypto Business

The bank’s own data shows the rapid acceleration of its novel crypto-banking business and how leaning into digital assets made it vulnerable to the industry’s drama.

(Charlotte Harrison/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Was Silvergate on Borrowed Time as Regulators Backed Banks Away From Crypto?

As customers abandon the prominent California-based crypto bank, its future gets increasingly murky.

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