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

Keone Hon: Bridging DeFi and TradFi

The ex-Jump Trading quant raised $225 million in 2024 to build Monad, a high-performance blockchain trying to bring Wall Street's trading efficiency to crypto.

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Finance

Justin Sun: Tron’s Founder Was at the Center of It All

From TRX and tether-on-Tron to wBTC and one expensive banana, Sun was never far from the headlines this year.

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Coindesk News

CoinDesk's Most Influential 2024

The 10th edition of our annual list reflects a momentous year for crypto.

Most Influential 2024

Policy

Sam Bankman-Fried Jailed Ahead of Trial

Bankman-Fried was accused of leaking former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison's diary to the New York Times.

Sam Bankman-Fried, middle, walks into court on Aug. 11, 2023. (Victor Chen/CoinDesk)

Finance

Struggling Crypto Custodian Prime Trust Looks Poised for Potentially Massive Layoffs, Sources Say

Nevada regulators recently ordered the crypto company, which BitGo had planned to buy, to cease operations and noted a shortfall in customer funds.

(Raj Rana/Unsplash)

Policy

Bittrex Reaches Settlement With SEC; Agrees to Pay $24M Fine

The crypto exchange faced charges of offering U.S. investors access to unregistered securities.

Bittrex (Shutterstock)

Finance

Aave Token Holders Voting on 2 Proposals Following Averted Curve Liquidation Crisis

The proposals, which aim to disable CRV borrowing and decrease Aave’s exposure to Curve’s native token on its Ethereum V2 markets, are responses to the liquidation pressure faced by Curved founder Michael Egorov.

(Arnaud Jaegers/Unsplash)

Tech

Coinbase's Much-Hyped New Base Blockchain Draws Modest $10M of Inflows on Launch Day

Nearly $166 million had already flowed to the blockchain ahead of the official launch.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Riot Posts Mixed Q2 Earnings Report, Sees Growing Consolidation in Industry

Riot Platforms reported its second-quarter earnings after the close on Wednesday.

A close-up of one of Riot's mining rigs. (Riot Blockchain)

Policy

Congresswoman Maxine Waters Says She’s ‘Deeply Concerned’ About PayPal’s New Stablecoin

The top Democrat on the House Financial Service Committee said federal rules should be in place before a company the size of PayPal issues a stablecoin.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) (Sarah Morris/Getty Images)