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

South Africa Classifies Crypto Assets as Financial Products

The move brings digital assets more under the purview of the country’s regulators.

South Africa is classifying crypto assets as financial products. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Bankrupt Crypto Lender Voyager Plans to Settle CEO, CFO Negligence Claims Related to Three Arrows Loans

An internal probe found that risky loans made to 3AC were based on minimal financial disclosures from the hedge fund.

Voyager CEO Steve Ehrlich (CoinDesk)

Finance

SEC, CFTC Probing Bankrupt Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital: Report

The federal agencies are looking into whether Three Arrows misled investors about its balance sheet and whether the hedge fund should have registered with them.

Comisión de Bolsa y Valores de Estados Unidos. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Three Arrows Liquidators Seek to Subpoena Co-Founders Zhu and Davies by Alternate Means

With the co-founders’ locations unknown, the liquidators are applying to serve them subpoenas via their email addresses, Twitter accounts and their attorneys’ email addresses.

Three Arrows co-funder Su Zhu (CoinDesk)

Policy

SEC Chairman Says CFTC Should Get More Power to Oversee Stablecoins: Report

Gary Gensler pointed out that the CFTC doesn't have direct authority to write rules for the firms that issue stablecoins.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Finance

Stablecoin Issuer Tether Cuts Commercial Paper Holdings to Zero

The company has been gradually replacing its commercial paper holdings with U.S. Treasury bills.

Director de Tecnología de Tether, Paolo Ardoino, en la Blockchain Week de París en abril. (Bitfinex)

Finance

Crypto Custodian Copper Raises $196M in Series C Funding Round

The company also reported a loss of $16 million last year, up from $4.1 million in 2020.

(Shutterstock)

Policy

SEC Probing Bored Ape Creator Yuga Labs Over Unregistered Offerings: Report

The key legal question at the center of the probe, according to Bloomberg, is whether NFTs are securities.

(Bored Ape Yacht Club, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

BNB Chain Halts After 'Potential Exploit' Drained Estimated $100M in Crypto

The chain has now resumed operations after fixing a problem that let someone create $570 million of the token, though they were only able to abscond with a smaller amount.

Binance's Changpeng Zhao speaking at Messari Mainnet (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase Expands Services in Australia, Calling Country a ‘Priority Market for Us’

The crypto exchange is adding a way for retail customers to easily transfer Australian dollars to their Coinbase accounts, among other improvements.

The Sydney Opera House in Australia (Stanbalik/Pixabay)