Nelson Wang

Nelson edits features and opinion stories and was previously CoinDesk’s U.S. News Editor for the East Coast. He has also been an editor at Unchained and DL News, and prior to working at CoinDesk, he was the technology stocks editor and consumer stocks editor at TheStreet. He has also held editing positions at Yahoo.com and Condé Nast Portfolio’s website, and was the content director for aMedia, an Asian American media company. Nelson grew up on Long Island, New York and went to Harvard College, earning a degree in Social Studies. He holds BTC, ETH and SOL above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Policy

Ex-FTX Compliance Officer Sued for Allegedly Paying Off Would-Be Whistleblowers

FTX's lawyers allege Daniel Friedberg allowed its executives' criminal activities to fly under the radar for years.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Tech

Chainlink Data Feeds Go Live on Celo

In April, Celo joined Chainlink Scale to access the data provider’s oracle services at a low cost.

(Chainlink)

Finance

FTX Pauses Sale of $500M Stake in AI Firm Anthropic: Bloomberg

The move followed months of due diligence on the stake being done by the bidders, according to Bloomberg’s sources.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in March of 2023. He could be returning to jail early if a court decides he has violated conditions of his bail. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Markets

First Leveraged Bitcoin ETF in U.S. Sees $4.2M in Trading Volume Since Debut

The ETF saw about $500K worth of trades in the first 15 minutes.

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Markets

ADA, SOL Underperform as Robinhood Gets Set to Delist Them Amid SEC Crackdown

The popular trading app will no longer support the trading of Cardano, Solana and Polygon after Tuesday.

Trading app Robinhood has added Solana, Pepe, Cardano and XRP to the list of cryptocurrencies available to trade on its platform. (Unsplash)

Finance

Fireblocks Adds Support for Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud

The crypto infrastructure provider has so far helped over 50 major financial institutions transition into the digital asset space.

Fireblocks sign at Miami airport during Bitcoin Miami conference 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Leading House Democrat Solicits Feedback From Gensler and Yellen on Crypto Bill

The bill would provide guidelines for U.S.-based crypto exchanges to register with regulators.

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Finance

Hong Kong's HSBC Allows Customers to Trade Bitcoin, Ether ETFs but That's Not Really News

HSBC's customers in Hong Kong have in fact been able to trade such crypto investment products since they were first listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange back in December.

Hong Kong Harbour (Shutterstock)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Secures Up to $50M in Loans From Coinbase

The first $15 million will be drawn shortly after closing the deal, while another $15 million is conditional on closing a merger.

A Hut 8 mining site (Hut 8)

Web3

Home Improvement Giant Lowe's Is Selling an Mfers Meme NFT Garden Flag

An NFT project that has grown its community and reached meme status has made its way onto a major retailer's website.

Evergreen Siezenals flag at Lowe's featuring Mfers NFT. (0xsthompson/Twitter)