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.

Jesse Hamilton

Latest from Jesse Hamilton


Policy

U.S. Senate Expected to Vote on Erasing IRS's Crypto Broker Rule That Threatens DeFi: Source

Senate leaders are said to be queuing up votes to reverse two Biden-era regulations tied to digital assets: the IRS DeFi rule and a CFPB digital-payments rule.

U.S. Capitol Building (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

As the SEC Continues Its Crypto Litigation Retreat, Here’s What’s Still Outstanding

The U.S. SEC is dropping cases and closing investigations against crypto companies left and right, but not everyone is off the hook yet.

CoinDesk

Policy

SEC Publishes Memecoin Stance Reinforcing Hester Peirce’s Comments

Memecoins aren’t securities, the agency said on Thursday.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce.

Policy

Coinbase Case Dropped by U.S. SEC as Agency Reverses Crypto Stance

A landmark legal battle for the U.S. crypto sector, the government accusation that Coinbase ran an unregistered exchange, has been entirely abandoned.

Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, at Consensus 2019 (CoinDesk)

Policy

Utah One Vote Away, But Some States Fail to Break Through on Crypto Stakes

Five states' crypto efforts faltered as Texas advances and Utah nears a final vote, leaving the state-level push for digital asset reserves with mixed results.

Texas state senate's Business and Commerce Committee

Policy

U.S. Treasury's New Crypto Point Person Says Stablecoin Law a Good First Goal

Tyler Williams, an ex-industry lawyer hired as crypto counselor for Treasury Secretary Bessent, said there's a ton of inside work to be done in the department.

U.S. Treasury Department's Tyler Williams, crypto counselor

Policy

U.S. House Committee Advances Effort to Erase IRS' DeFi Tax Rule

A joint resolution in Congress seeks to reverse a December move by the IRS to impose a tax regime in DeFi, and the House has taken the first steps to do that.

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

Policy

One of 2 Remaining Democrats at U.S. CFTC Will Exit When New Chair Arrives

As the crypto industry awaits a surge in digital assets authority at the U.S. derivatives agency, Democrat Christy Goldsmith Romero plans to depart.

Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. Marshals Service Can't Say How Much Crypto It Holds, Complicating Bitcoin Reserve Plan

The agency has been plagued with procedural and organizational issues for years.

Credit: Getty Images

Policy

U.S. Senators Push for SEC to Rethink Crypto Staking in Exchange Funds

The Securities and Exchange Commission blocked staking when crypto exchange-traded funds were granted, but the lawmakers suggest the SEC may have been off-base.

Senator Cynthia Lummis (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)