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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Finance

Tezos Deploys Major ‘Tenderbake’ Upgrade

The proof-of-stake blockchain has changed its consensus algorithm in order to lower block times and improve performance.

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Finance

Axie Infinity Delays Launch of ‘Origin’ Game Following Massive Hack

The new “Axie Infinity: Origin” was originally supposed to debut on March 30.

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Finance

Stronghold Digital's Stock Tanks as Q4 Results Miss Estimates

The bitcoin miner said it no longer believes its original target of 8.0 exahash per second in computing power by the end of 2022 is achievable.

Stronghold Digital Mining Raises $105M to Turn Waste Coal Into Bitcoin

Finance

El Salvador Postpones Bitcoin Bond: Report

The country's finance minister said the offering may come as late as September, according to Reuters.

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Finance

Mark Zuckerberg Says NFTs Are Coming Soon to Instagram

The Meta CEO’s comments at South by Southwest confirmed earlier reports that Instagram was preparing to make such a move.

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Policy

Treasury Department Issues Guidance on Using Crypto to Evade Sanctions

The Biden administration said earlier in the day that such guidance would be forthcoming.

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Policy

Justice Department Will Prosecute Banks, Crypto Exchanges That Help Russians Hide Assets: Report

A new task force has been created to freeze or take the assets of Russians that have been sanctioned following the invasion of Ukraine.

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Policy

US Senator Warren Drafting Bill to Ensure Crypto Can’t Be Used to Evade Sanctions

One of the provisions would make it easier to verify customer identities and transfers to private wallets by enforcing detailed record keeping and reporting, according to NBC News.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Policy

Biden Planning to Sign Executive Order on Crypto This Week: Reports

The White House has been working on coordinating the efforts of different federal agencies since last year.

U.S. President Joe Biden (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Policy

SEC Probing NFT Market: Report

At issue is whether certain tokens should be considered securities and thus regulated.

The headquarters building of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stands in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, May 10, 2010. The chief executive officers of the biggest U.S. stock markets were called to a meeting at the SEC today to discuss last week�s selloff in equities, according to four people familiar with the situation. Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images