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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Policy

US Senate Banking Committee to Hold ‘Crypto Crash’ Hearing This Month

Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown announced the hearing on digital assets safeguards for Feb. 14.

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

FBI: North Korean Hackers Behind $100M Horizon Bridge Theft

Lazarus Group and APT38, both associated with North Korea, are responsible for the attack in June, the agency concluded.

(Brooks Kraft/Corbis via Getty Images)

Consensus Magazine

After FTX: How Congress Is Gearing Up to Regulate Crypto

The industry is finally earning the priority status it desperately wanted, but for the wrong reasons, says CoinDesk's Jesse Hamilton.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Policy

SEC Sues Eisenberg for Draining Mango Markets, Alleges MNGO a Security

It’s the latest case to emerge from Avraham Eisenberg’s “highly profitable trading strategy.”

Sliced mango served up on a table (Desirae Hayes-Vitor/Unsplash)

Policy

Circle, Uniswap Research Says DeFi Can Solve $2T FX Risk Problem

A paper by researchers at the digital-assets firms says DeFi and blockchain technology could also reduce cross-border remittances costs by $30 billion a year.

Mary-Catherine Lader, COO, Uniswap Labs  (Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Policy

Crypto Lawyers Share Blame for FTX, Other Disasters, CFTC Commissioner Says

Gatekeepers such as lawyers, accountants and investment firms should have insisted the crypto industry handle itself in a safer fashion, Commissioner Goldsmith Romero argued.

Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

US Charges Crypto Exchange Bitzlato With Laundering $700M

Authorities have accused the little-known platform of laundering funds tied to illicit Russian finance and have arrested its founder.

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Policy

Congress' FTX Problem: 1 in 3 Members Got Cash From Crypto Exchange's Bosses

The session began with 196 U.S. lawmakers who took direct contributions from Sam Bankman-Fried and other former FTX executives, and many of them are still trying to get rid of it.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Jesse Hamilton, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

Former Celsius CEO Mashinsky Sued by New York State for Defrauding Investors

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed the suit against the ex-head of the failed lending platform, accusing him of misleading investors about the firm’s health.

Alex Mashinsky, founder and CEO of Celsius Network, at Consensus 2019 in New York (CoinDesk)

Policy

SEC Pursues $45M Scam Based in Fake Blockchain Technology

The U.S. securities agency is going after the people behind what it says was a massive fraud stealing from tens of thousands of investors.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C.  (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)