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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Bitcoin Lingers Under $27K to Continue Its May Sluggishness Amid Inflation Concerns

BTC and ether both lost ground in May, the first monthly decline of 2023. LTC and RNDR were among the month’s big gainers.

Bitcoin price one month. (CoinDesk)

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MakerDAO Paves Way for Additional $1.28B U.S. Treasury Purchase

The protocol’s community voted for onboarding a new real-world asset vault that would invest up to the additional amount in U.S. Treasury bonds.

Maker Foundation CEO Rune Christensen.

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MakerDAO Votes to Ditch $500M in Paxos Dollar Stablecoin From Reserve Assets

The result is a significant blow for Paxos as MakerDAO currently holds roughly half of USDP’s total supply.

MakerDAO booth at CES 2020 (Brady Dale/CoinDesk)

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Jimbos Protocol to Work With U.S. Homeland Security to Help Recover $7.5M From Flash Loan Exploit

The team is opening more cases in other jurisdictions and offering a roughly $800,000 bounty to the general public for information on the exploiter.

U.S. Homeland Security (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

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USDC Issuer Circle Has Ditched All U.S. Treasuries From $24B Reserve Fund Amid Debt Ceiling Showdown

The stablecoin issuer now only holds cash and repurchase agreements to back its USDC stablecoin’s value.

Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Coinbase Shares Rise as Q1 Revenue Grows 23% to $773M From Q4

The crypto exchange reported results after the close on Thursday.

Coinbase's Base blockchain has gone live (Chesnot/Getty Images)

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Coinbase No Longer Supporting Signature Bank’s Signet Network: WSJ

The fate of Signet has been unclear since Signature Bank was shut down by New York State regulators last weekend.

(Chesnot/Getty Images)

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FTX Firms Had $6.8B Hole in Balance Sheet at Time of Bankruptcy

The group of companies had debts of about $11.6 billion against $4.8 billion in assets, according to a presentation filed by its advisers.

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)

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Coinbase, Hut 8 and Other Crypto Stocks Rise as Bitcoin Surpasses $27.6K

BTC’s price is up over 10% over the last 24 hours.

Bitcoin subió en el trading del día viernes. (Jay Radhakrishnan)

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Crypto Platform Anchorage Digital Laying Off 20% of Its Staff

The firm said that U.S. regulatory uncertainty played a role in its decision.

Anchorage President Diogo Monica speaking in the Bahamas (Danny Nelson)