Nikhilesh De

Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation, covering regulators, lawmakers and institutions. When he's not reporting on digital assets and policy, he can be found admiring Amtrak or building LEGO trains. He owns < $50 in BTC and < $20 in ETH. He was named the Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers' Journalist of the Year in 2020.

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Finance

Digital Currency Group Files to Dismiss Crypto Exchange Gemini’s Fraud Claims

DCG called Gemini’s July complaint a continuation of a “public relations campaign” carried out by the exchange’s owners, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.

Digital Currency Group's Barry Silbert, right (Getty Images)

Policy

Why Binance Is Abandoning Most of Europe

Crypto firms only need regulatory approval in one EU nation under new rules to serve all 27 in the single market – but some states are more prepared to implement MiCA regulation than others.

Europe (Claudio Schwarz/Unsplash)

Policy

SEC Will Appeal XRP Ruling in Case Against Ripple

A federal judge ruled that while Ripple's direct sales of XRP to institutional investors violated securities law, its programmatic sales to retail investors through exchanges did not.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse  (Scott Moore/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Policy

Bank of England Wants Digital Pound Advisers as It Moves to CBDC Design Phase

The Bank of England is recruiting academics for its central bank digital currency engagement forum and asking stakeholders for more information.

Bank of England (Camomile Shumba)

Policy

Fed Starts New Program to Oversee Crypto Activity in U.S. Banks

Fresh crypto guidance from the U.S. central bank doesn’t represent a departure from previous policy, but it provides more details on what the Federal Reserve expects from banks.

The Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Bavaria's Data Regulator Had Not Concluded Assessment of Worldcoin When the Project Launched

The Sam Altman co-founded project has been shut down in Kenya over privacy concerns.

A user from GCR getting their iris scanned with a Worldcoin Orb in Paris on July 21. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Policy

Sam Bankman-Fried Will Still Face Campaign Finance-Related Charge, Justice Department Says

Prosecutors had dropped a campaign-finance charge against the FTX founder last month.

(Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitmain, Anchorage Expected to Take Equity in Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific as Part of Bankruptcy Plan

The world's largest crypto mining machine maker is set to take a $54 million stake in Core Scientific as the miner emerges out of Chapter 11 proceedings.

Core Scientific facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Policy

A Long-Awaited Crypto Tax Rule Was Written Months Ago. Why Isn’t it Proposed?

Senators have told the IRS to hurry its regulations on brokers reporting crypto transactions while crypto lobbyists question whether the delay is a White House strategy.

(Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Global X Refiles Spot-Bitcoin ETF Application, Naming Coinbase as ‘Surveillance-Sharing’ Partner

The filing comes around the same time the firm requested permission to offer a bitcoin-futures ETF.

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