Nikhilesh De

Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation, covering regulators, lawmakers and institutions. He owns < $50 in BTC and < $20 in ETH. He won a Gerald Loeb award in the beat reporting category as part of CoinDesk's blockbuster FTX coverage in 2023, and was named the Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers' Journalist of the Year in 2020.

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Policy

US Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill to Give CFTC Crypto Spot Market Oversight

The Digital Commodity Exchange Act would give the regulator direct oversight of some types of crypto transactions and exchanges.

Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) (Astrid Riecken/Getty Images)

Policy

New York State Assembly Passes Bill Blocking New Crypto Mines That Use Non-Renewable Power

The bill will impose a two-year moratorium on new crypto mining firms that use a carbon-based energy source. Existing facilities aren't affected, nor are any that tap renewable resources.

Cryptocurrency mining rigs sit on racks. (James MacDonald/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

Elon Musk Wants to Authenticate Every Twitter User. Crypto Twitter Should Take Notice

Twitter’s soon-to-be owner says he wants to “authenticate” all humans, but did not say what that actually means.

Elon Musk (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

Policy

US Treasury Sanctions More North Korea-Linked ETH Wallets Over $600M Ronin Hack

The three new wallets join an Ethereum address added to the sanctions list last week.

(CoinDesk)

Policy

Sanctioning an Ether Address Isn't Stopping Transactions

The operators of a crypto wallet added to the U.S. sanctions list continue to offload their funds.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

OCC Finds Anchorage Digital Failed to Maintain Proper AML Rules

The company must appoint a compliance committee and hire a Bank Secrecy Act officer.

Anchorage co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley. (CoinDesk)

Policy

US Sanctions Russian Crypto Mining Host BitRiver

BitRiver and 10 subsidiaries were added to the OFAC list Wednesday in connection with their ties to the Russian economy.

A Bitriver mining farm (Anna Baydakova for CoinDesk)

Policy

US Officials Tie North Korea’s ‘Lazarus’ Hackers to $625M Crypto Theft

Axie Infinity’s Ronin blockchain suffered a massive exploit late last month.

North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Cynthia Lummis: Senator, Hodler

The Wyoming senator, a speaker at CoinDesk's Consensus festival, holds plenty of BTC and champions crypto whenever she can.

(Cynthia Lummis modified by Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

Policy

A Spot Bitcoin ETF Still Seems Unlikely

ETF proponents hope the approval of a recent bitcoin futures ETF portends the approval of a spot ETF. The SEC still has concerns.

(Elena Popova/Getty Images)