Marc Hochstein

As Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Features, Opinion, Ethics and Standards, Marc oversees CoinDesk's long-form content, sets editorial policies and acts as the ombudsman for our industry-leading newsroom. He is also spearheading our nascent coverage of prediction markets and helps compile The Node, our daily email newsletter rounding up the biggest stories in crypto.

From November 2022 to June 2024 Marc was the Executive Editor of Consensus, CoinDesk's flagship annual event. He joined CoinDesk in 2017 as a managing editor and has steadily added responsibilities over the years.

Marc is a veteran journalist with more than 25 years' experience, including 17 years at the trade publication American Banker, the last three as editor-in-chief, where he was responsible for some of the earliest mainstream news coverage of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

DISCLOSURE: Marc holds BTC above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000; marginal amounts of ETH, SOL, XMR, ZEC, MATIC and EGIRL; an Urbit planet (~fodrex-malmev); two ENS domain names (MarcHochstein.eth and MarcusHNYC.eth); and NFTs from the Oekaki (pictured), Lil Skribblers, SSRWives, and Gwar collections.

Marc Hochstein

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Markets

Did RFK Jr. Really 'Drop Out'? Polymarket Bettors Argue Over Contract Resolution

Also: Prediction market traders place bets on Telegram CEO's release from jail and on the spread of mpox.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent U.S. Presidential Candidate, speaks at Consensus 2024 by CoinDesk. (CoinDesk/Shutterstock/Suzanne Cordiero)

Opinion

OK, Bloomer!

Bloomberg’s editorial board says Harris and Trump shouldn’t “pander” to crypto. The piece itself panders to stereotypes about the digital assets industry.

Former President Donald Trump (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Policy

Crypto Airdrops Ban U.S. Users, but Americans Are Claiming Tokens Anyway

Eigen Labs helped its employees access lucrative airdrops. Its U.S. employees appear to have helped themselves to tokens U.S. residents were banned from claiming.

(Павел Котов/Wikimedia Commons)

Tech

'Wartime CEO': Urbit's Founder Returns in Shakeup at Moonshot Software Project

"We're here to fix this," Curtis Yarvin says of the struggling endeavor to rebuild the entire internet computing stack from scratch.

Urbit founder Curtis Yarvin (David Merfield/NASA, composite by Jesse Hamilton for CoinDesk)

Policy

Schumer Sets Stage for New Era of U.S. Crypto Politics

Wednesday's Crypto4Harris town hall showed Democrats are finally engaged with the industry. Still, it’s not clear what Harris thinks about crypto, or would do about it if elected.

U.S Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, at an event supporting Vice President Kamala Harris, said Congress can still get a crypto bill out this year. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Tech

Top Crypto Startup Drove Other Projects' Airdrops to Its Employees

Eigen Labs circulated a list of team members' wallet addresses to EigenLayer ecosystem projects that were preparing to issue tokens. Some teams asked for it. At least one didn't.

EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan at ETHDenver 2024 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

News Analysis

Kamala Harris Pulls Well Ahead of Trump on Polymarket

Plus: Will Trump mention crypto in Elon Musk interview?; don't hold your breath for OpenAI's Sora.

WAYNE, MICHIGAN - AUGUST 08: Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at United Auto Workers Local 900 on August 8, 2024 in Wayne, Michigan. Kamala Harris and her newly selected running mate Tim Walz are campaigning across the country this week. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner With Celsius Assets Delays IPO After Losing CEO and Auditor

Ionic Digital's former accountant, RSM, is no longer auditing publicly traded digital asset mining companies.

Exit sign (Paul Brennan/Pixabay)

Markets

Franklin Templeton's Tokenized Money Market Fund Expands to Arbitrum

The $420 million OnChain U.S. Government Money Market Fund was already on Stellar and Polygon.

A closeup of a US hundred dollar bill (Benjamin Franklin side).

Opinion

How DePIN Can Modernize Car Insurance

Auto insurers take a blanket approach to setting premium prices, disadvantaging drivers with better records. DePINs can help individualize policies while keeping data secure, writes Hugo Feiler, CEO of Minima.

American Motors Corporation (AMC) Javelin. A highly customized muscle pony car for drag racing and auto shows with a supercharged AMC V8 engine. Note: this car is based on the 1971 or 1972 version. Photograph taken at an AMC meet in Kenosha, Wisconsin.