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

SEC Accuses 2 Firms of Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scheme

The complaint alleges the two companies pumped the price of their cryptocurrency by falsely claiming they had acquired $10 billion in gold bullion to back it.

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Finance

Terraform Labs Calls S. Korean Authorities’ Arrest Warrant for Do Kwon Overreach: Report

A Terraform spokesperson claimed its luna cryptocurrency wasn’t a security, meaning it wasn’t covered by South Korea’s capital markets law.

TerraForm Labs founder and CEO Do Kwon (CoinDesk TV screenshot, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Exchange FTX.US President Brett Harrison Stepping Down

Zach Dexter, the CEO of FTX's U.S. derivatives unit, will take over Harrison's role, according to a source.

Brett Harrison, exdirector de FTX.US. (Danny Nelson)

Finance

CFO of Insolvent Crypto Lender Voyager Resigns

Ashwin Prithipaul joined Voyager Digital as its chief financial officer in May of this year.

Voyager's bankrupcy has left creditors in the lurch. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

CFTC Penalizes Blockchain Protocol $250K, Files Action Against Successor DAO

The commission said bZeroX offered illegal, off-exchange trading of digital assets, and has also filed a civil action against the Ooki DAO.

(Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock)

Finance

Kraken’s Jesse Powell to Step Down as CEO of Crypto Exchange

Chief Operating Officer Dave Ripley will take over as CEO.

Kraken CEO Jesse Powell (CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Exchanges Binance and FTX Have Both Bid Roughly $50M for Voyager’s Assets: Report

Binance’s current bid is slightly higher than FTX’s, according to sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal.

Changpeng Zhao, CEO de Binance. (Archivo de CoinDesk)

Policy

Election Betting Site PredictIt Sues to Block CFTC-Ordered Shutdown

The CFTC’s August action calls for the site to be closed for U.S. users by February 15.

PredictIt, which allows traders to wager on the outcome of political events, has been ordered by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to shut down U.S. activity in six months. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Fidelity Considering Offering Crypto Trading to Brokerage Customers: Report

Fidelity has more than 34.4 million individual brokerage accounts, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Finance

MicroStrategy Files to Sell Up to $500M of Stock to Fund Bitcoin Purchases

The deal is a sign Executive Chairman Michael Saylor isn't backing off his audacious plan to turn his software developer into a bitcoin proxy.

MicroStrategy Executive Director Michael Saylor speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)