Nelson Wang

U.S. News Editor, East Coast

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.

Latest from Nelson Wang

Finance

Robinhood Received Crypto-Related Subpoena Request From SEC: 10K

The trading platform also received similar subpoena requests from the California Attorney General’s office.

Feb 27, 2023

Robinhood app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)

Finance

Block’s Q4 Bitcoin Revenue Fell 7% Year Over Year to $1.83B

For the full year, Block’s bitcoin revenue declined 29% from 2021 due to the fall in the price of bitcoin, the company said.

Feb 23, 2023

Finance

Dapper Labs Laying Off Another 20% of Its Staff

The job cuts follow a previous 22% workforce reduction in November.

Feb 23, 2023

Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images)

Finance

Binance Shifts to ‘Semi-Automated’ Process to Manage Reserves of Tokens It Issues

Reserves for these tokens had previously been mixed with customer funds.

Feb 22, 2023

Las especulaciones recientes sobre el estado de Binance, el exchange de criptomonedas más importante del mundo, también golpearon la participación de mercado de su stablecoin. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase Q4 Revenue and Earnings Beat Expectations, but Transaction Volume Falls 12% From Q3

The crypto exchange reported its fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday after the close.

Feb 21, 2023

Finance

Binance Considers Severing US Ties in Face of Crypto Crackdown: Bloomberg

The crypto exchange has been investigated by a host of U.S. regulators and government agencies.

Feb 17, 2023

Policy

SEC Sues Terraform Labs, Do Kwon for Misleading Investors on TerraUSD Stablecoin

The collapse of TerraUSD last year led to a wave of bankruptcies in the crypto industry.

Feb 16, 2023

Daniel Shin, izquierda, y Do Kwon, cofundadores de Terra. (Terraform Labs)

Policy

CFTC Charges California Firm and CEO With Fraud, Misappropriation of Digital Assets

The commission alleges the defendants fraudulently solicited over $7 million worth of bitcoin and ether and misappropriated some of the funds in a Ponzi scheme.

Feb 16, 2023

Policy

FDIC Tells Crypto Exchange CEX.IO to Stop Claiming US Dollars Held in Its Wallets Are Insured

The agency issued a cease-and-desist letter on Wednesday.

Feb 15, 2023

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 6: The entrance to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), located across the street from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, is viewed on June 6, 2017 in Washington, D.C. The nation's capital, the sixth largest metropolitan area in the country, draws millions of visitors each year to its historical sites, including thousands of school kids during the month of June. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)

Policy

CFTC Case Against Sam Bankman-Fried Postponed Until After Criminal Trial

The request to stay the SEC’s civil case against Bankman-Fried is still pending.

Feb 13, 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried outside court on Feb. 9, 2023 (Liz Napolitano/CoinDesk)

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