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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Coinbase’s Abrupt Hiring Reversal Blindsided Would-Be Employees

Coinbase announced it would rescind offers, surprising recruits who told CoinDesk they believed their new roles would be safe.

Brian Armstrong in 2019  (Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

Политика

New York State Senate Passes Bitcoin Mining Moratorium

The state Assembly had already passed the bill, which would bar new mining operations powered by carbon-based energy sources for two years.

Clark Vaccaro, acting president and chief strategy officer at BaSIC, a local trade organization, holding up a sign after a rally against the proposed bill last month. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Consensus Festival Guide: The Future of Crypto Regulation

Highlights from the program at the upcoming festival in Austin, June 9-12.

(Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

Политика

CFTC Sues Gemini Over Bitcoin Futures Case From 2017

Gemini partnered with Cboe to try and launch what would have been the nation’s first bitcoin futures contracts.

Gemini ad

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Thoughts From Davos

The crypto industry showed up in force at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting.

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Lockheed Martin, Filecoin Foundation to Explore Hosting Blockchain Nodes in Space

The two plan to identify a test mission by August 2022.

(SpaceX/Unsplash)

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Regulators Are Paying Attention to UST

The collapse of terraUSD (UST) is algorithmic stablecoins’ Libra moment.

The SEC is reportedly probing Terraform Labs. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Политика

US Appeals Court Orders SEC to Bring Enforcement Actions to Jury Trials

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the targets of SEC enforcement actions had their constitutional rights violated by the use of in-house judges.

SEC Chair Gensler, right, speaks to Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown (with mask) and Ranking Member Pat Toomey (Bill Clark-Pool/Getty Images)

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Do Kwon: ‘I Am Heartbroken’ Over Pain Caused by UST Collapse

The admission comes after the stunning demise of the Terra blockchain’s flagship project.

“I still believe that decentralized economies deserve decentralized money – but it is clear that $UST in its current form will not be that money,” Kwon tweeted.(Dhaval Parmar/Unsplash/Photomosh)

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LUNA, UST Issuer Terra Restarts Blockchain After Brief Shutdown

The price of LUNA fell too low to prevent governance attacks, Terraform Labs tweeted when it announced the network had been halted.

“When the market takes a downturn, a lot of those highly volatile crypto assets will be sold off for UST and then staked in Anchor for a savings account,” says Do Kwon, a cofounder of Terraform Labs