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

US Court Orders BitMEX Founders to Pay $30M for Illegal Trading

Co-founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo and Samuel Reed must each pay $10 million, the CFTC said.

May 5, 2022

Policy

US Court Orders BitMEX Founders to Pay $30M for Illegal Trading

Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo and Samuel Reed will each pay $10 million for their role operating BitMEX.

May 5, 2022

Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes might surrender to U.S. officials on April 6, a federal prosecutor said last month.

Policy

US House Panel to Weigh FTX Proposal on Clearing Customers’ Swaps Trades

As the CFTC is still considering FTX.US' application, lawmakers will examine the potential trend at hearing.

May 5, 2022

The House Committee on Agriculture led by Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) is set for a May 12 hearing to discuss FTX's effort to directly clear customers' swaps trading. (Bill O'Leary-Pool/Getty Images)

Policy

CFTC Sets May Roundtable to Weigh Ideas Sparked by FTX’s Derivatives Push

The May 25 discussion will consider direct clearing of derivatives as pitched by FTX.US.

Apr 27, 2022

Rostin Behnam, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

Stablecoins Need to Set a Common Standard, Says US Banking Watchdog

The acting OCC chief says stablecoins aren’t ”interoperable” and that should change.

Apr 27, 2022

Michael Hsu, acting Comptroller of the Currency (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

Former Homeland Security Chief Nielsen to Join Astra as Adviser

Ex-Cabinet secretary to work as strategic adviser beside former acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.

Apr 27, 2022

Kirstjen Nielsen, former U.S. secretary of homeland security, is joining Astra Protocol as a strategic adviser. (Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

FalconX Tests Waters as First Full-Fledged Crypto Derivatives Dealer

The company's CEO is counting on others to follow.

Apr 26, 2022

Policy

US House Democrats Call for Scrutiny on Crypto Mining as Environmental Threat

Rep. Huffman and other congressional Democrats wrote the EPA chief on the potential harm to the climate and environment.

Apr 21, 2022

U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) led fellow Democrats to write the EPA about concerns over crypto mining. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network)

Policy

FTX Plan Said to Face CFTC Roundtable Next Month

A proposal from FTX.US on direct derivatives clearing is set to be the focus of public discussion on May 23.

Apr 19, 2022

Chairman Rostin Behnam's Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), is expected to hold a May 23 roundtable to weigh an application from FTX.US to directly clear customers' derivatives trading. (Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

Crypto Proponents Fear SEC 'Backdoor' Regulations on Exchanges, Dealers

Lobbyists oppose proposals that may regulate crypto without explicitly naming the sector.

Apr 18, 2022

Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, argues that his agency has authority over a wide range of digital assets. (Melissa Lyttle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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