Nick Baker

Nick Baker is CoinDesk's deputy editor-in-chief. He won a Loeb Award for editing CoinDesk's coverage of FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried, including Ian Allison's scoop that caused SBF's empire to collapse. Before joining in 2022, he worked at Bloomberg News for 16 years as a reporter, editor and manager. Previously, he was a reporter at Dow Jones Newswires, wrote for The Wall Street Journal and earned a journalism degree from Ohio University. He owns more than $1,000 of BTC and SOL.

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Markets

DeFi Giant Curve Roiled as Founder's Loans Get Liquidated; CRV Slides 30%

Addresses tied to Curve founder Michael Egorov are borrowing nearly $100 million in various stablecoins against $140 million in curve tokens.

(vlastas/iStock)

Finance

TipLink Aims for Crypto Newcomers With Google-Powered Solana Wallet

"It unlocks the rest of the world for easy onboarding," said CEO Ian Krotinsky.

TipLink's new crypto wallet aims to appeal to the masses (James Cridland via Creative Commons)

Finance

Solana Heavyweights Wage War Against Private Mempool Operators

Validators found to be facilitating sandwich attacks face stiff penalties.

Solana Hacker House in Miami (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase's Former Head of Communications Joins Worldcoin

Elliott Suthers has joined biometric data and crypto firm Worldcoin.

Worldcoin's iris-scanning technology is being questioned by regulators (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Stablecoin Issuers Want to Give Something Back in Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market Race

Amid a new generation of yield-bearing stablecoins, PayPal is confident in its purely payments-focused PYUSD.

A U.S. dollar coin balances on top of rocks

Finance

Bitcoin ETFs, Bankruptcy Paybacks Have Given Crypto Lending a Second Wind

Crypto lending firm Ledn survived the crypto winter by being "boring, slow and safe," according to a co-founder.

Ledn co-founders Mauricio Di Bartolomeo (left) and Adam Reeds (Ledn)

Markets

Medical Device Maker Semler Scientific Buys $17 Million More Bitcoin and Is Raising Money to Purchase More

The firm currently holds 828 bitcoin and plans to expand its crypto treasury

(Pixabay)

Finance

Bitcoin Mining Stocks Soar Amid Takeover Frenzy

The stocks are undervalued, so miners with attractive power contracts could become M&A targets, according to Wall Street analysts.

Wall Street has bitcoin mining mergers on its mind. (Chenyu Guan/Unsplash)

Finance

Iggy Azalea's MOTHER Meme Coin Turned $3K Into $9M for 1 Lucky Crypto Trader

The raunchy rapper's token has spawned fortunes and furor over celebrity cryptocurrencies.

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - JUNE 10: Iggy Azalea performs at the Tel Aviv Pride Parade on June 10, 2022 in Jerusalem, Israel. The annual Pride Parade draws thousands of people from around the world and across Israel. According to a 2019 report it is the largest pride parade on the continent of Asia. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld /Getty Images)

News Analysis

Cathie Wood's Ether ETF Pullback Is Likely Due to Fee War

The asset manager’s name was removed from a recent document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in preparation for the launch and later confirmed that it dropped out of the race.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)