Marc Hochstein

Executive Editor for Consensus

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.

Latest from Marc Hochstein

Finance

Terra Blockchain, Home of LUNA and UST, Upgrades for Cross-Chain Interoperability

The Columbus-5 upgrade is now live, connecting Terra with Cosmos and other chains on the Inter-Blockchain Communication standard.

Sep 30, 2021

Markets

Solana-Based Prediction Market Uses DeFi Yields to Finance ‘No Loss’ Betting

Hedgehog’s experimental wagers combine prediction markets with stablecoins, decentralized finance and gamification.

Sep 28, 2021

Finance

Leaked Slides Show How Chainalysis Flags Crypto Suspects for Cops

Walletexplorer.com, a block explorer site secretly operated by Chainalysis, has provided law enforcement with “meaningful leads,” the documents say.

Sep 22, 2021

Finance

Metal Fans Snap Up Gwar’s ‘Scumdog’ and ‘Slave’ NFTs Amid Market Frenzy

The group’s cheapest set of NFTs sells for $20 a pop, but transferring one to a MetaMask wallet costs $125 due to the high cost of Ethereum “gas” fees.

Sep 20, 2021

Gwar's "Slave" NFT, issued on the Ethereum blockchain and sold on the Fanaply market.

Policy

The Financial Aftermath of 9/11

As the world looks back on one of the worst tragedies of the 21st century, it’s important to remember 9/11′s long-lasting aftereffects: increased financial surveillance and exclusion.

Sep 13, 2021

Markets

DeFi and the 3 Cs

The purely collateral-based type of lending practiced so far in decentralized finance has limitations. Reputation systems may widen the possibilities.

Sep 12, 2021

Markets

Crypto Long & Short: The Trouble With Ticker Symbols

Investors are apt to get confused when multiple projects can claim the same ticker without an industry standard for exchanges to assign identifiers.

Sep 5, 2021

Markets

Crypto Long & Short: The End of Extreme Leverage

Lower systemwide leverage suggests the crypto markets, famous for their wild swings, might become a touch tamer.

Aug 30, 2021

Policy

Minneapolis Fed President Kashkari on Crypto Market: 'Thousands of Garbage Coins'

"I've not seen any use case other than funding illicit activities like drugs and prostitution," the central banker said.

Aug 17, 2021

Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari (Fox News)

Markets

Against the US Senate’s Heavy-Handed Crypto Provision

The bill as written has the potential to thrust every single transaction by U.S. crypto users into an invasive dragnet.

Aug 9, 2021

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), right, speaks with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), at the Capitol on Saturday.

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