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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Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

EasyA Wants to Attract More Than Just ‘Bounty Hunters’ to Its Hackathons

The start-up is hosting hackathons at the upcoming Consensus conferences in Hong Kong and Toronto that are expected to attract hundreds of developers.

Easy A co-founders Phil (left) and Dominic Kwok

Finance

Anvil Launches DeFi Protocol for Letters of Credit

Founder Tyler Spalding sees the Ethereum-based smart contract project as a step towards creating a new form of money for payments, loans and counterparty credit in DeFi.

Tyler Spalding

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

The Next Bridge.xyz? BlindPay's CEO Wants to Revolutionize Global Payments

Bernardo Moura is looking to upend SWIFT’s dominance of the massive international payments industry, starting with Latin America.

BlindPay CEO Bernardo Simonassi Moura

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Amanu: Bringing Apple-Like Simplicity to Crypto Wallets

Founder Gianlua Minoprio is hoping to dramatically increase wallet adoption by eliminating the use of seed phrases, among other innovations.

Amanu founder Gianluca Minoprio

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

RampMeDaddy Turns Telegram Into Your Memecoin Wallet

Co-founders Andrey Chabanov and Trevor Hoffman are looking to make crypto transfers as easy as sending a text message.

RampMeDaddy co-founders

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

ARC’s Elroy Cheo on How Asia Is Doing Web3 Differently

The co-founder of the exclusive Web3 community argues that Asia is uniquely positioned to lead the next phase of NFT innovation.

ARC co-founder Elroy Cheo

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Stacks’ Muneeb Ali: Let the Bitcoin L2s Bloom

Fresh off completing significant technical upgrades, Ali is now laser focused on growing Stacks’ user base.

muneeb, ali

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Agora’s Nick van Eck Is All-In on Stablecoins

The man behind AUSD is a true believer in the critical role that stablecoins can play in emerging markets.

Agora CEO Nick van Eck

Opinion

Why Ether Could Outperform Bitcoin in 2025

There are growing signs that ether is poised to lead its more well-established rival in the new year.

Ethereum Abstract Crystal

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Animoca Brands' Yat Siu: 2025 Will Be the Year Crypto Goes Mainstream

Crypto will reach a turning point when it becomes as useful for companies as the internet became in the 1990s, argues Animoca Brands' co-founder.

Yat Siu, co-founder of Animoca Brands at Consensus 2023 (CoinDesk)