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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Mercati

Fox Leads Investment in Blockchain Tech Firm Eluvio

The deal values the startup at $100 million.

FOX headquarters in New York City (Getty Images)

Finanza

Withdrawal of Ether Futures ETF Proposals Good Sign for Bitcoin Futures ETF: Analyst

Bloomberg Intelligence’s James Seyffart thinks a bitcoin futures ETF could get approved as soon as October.

Jan van Eck, president and CEO of VanEck speaks at Consensus Invest 2018 (CoinDesk)

Finanza

Riot Blockchain Reports Record Q2 Results

The bitcoin mining company reported revenue and sales results that beat analyst estimates for the second quarter.

CoinDesk placeholder image

Mercati

VanEck, ProShares Abruptly Withdraw Ether Futures ETF Proposals

Investment firms Van Eck and ProShares have both withdrawn their applications with the SEC for approval of ether futures ETFs, just two days after filing them.

(VanEck)

Finanza

NFT-Focused Topps Abandons Plan to Go Public in SPAC Merger

The longtime trading card company pulled out of its deal following the loss of its exclusive contract to make cards for Major League Baseball.

A promo image for Topps' MLB NFT play.

Finanza

Robinhood’s Revenue From Cryptocurrency Trading Jumps to 41% of Total

The popular zero-commission trading exchange warned in its second-quarter earnings report its reliance on cryptocurrency trading, and on dogecoin in particular, was a potential risk.

Robinhood

Mercati

Blockchain Identity Firm Civic Promotes Chris Hart to CEO

Vinny Lingham is stepping down from the role and will become executive chairman of the board.

Outgoing Civic CEO Vinny Lingham

Tecnologie

Facebook: Novi Digital Wallet Is ‘Ready to Come to Market’

Most states in the U.S. have approved the product.

David Marcus, the head of Facebook's blockchain projects.

Finanza

Bitfarms Increases Revenue by Almost 400% in Q2

The crackdown on crypto mining in China has helped the results and outlook for the Canadian bitcoin mining firm.

A technician monitors cryptocurrency mining rigs at a Bitfarms facility in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec.

Mercati

Poly Network Hack Not Over as Attacker Prolongs Return of Funds

The attacker now says they are considering accepting the $500,000 bounty offered by Poly Network as a reward for returning the funds, and using it to pay anyone else who can hack the DeFi site.

Screengrab from message encoded into the Ethereum blockchain by the Poly Network attacker.