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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Markets

IOTA Foundation Enters Base Layer Race With '2.0' Testnet

IOTA's new testnet addresses the technical feature that nuked the blockchain-like network for nearly two weeks earlier this year.

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Markets

Senate Banking Committee Remains Open to Idea of Digital Dollar in Tuesday's Hearing

While not every lawmaker was on board with the idea of a central bank digital currency during a Senate Banking Committee hearing Tuesday, no one explicitly rejected it either.

U.S. Senator Mike Crapo discussed stablecoins in his opening remarks during a hearing on digitizing money Tuesday. (Chief Mass Communication Specialist F. Julian Carroll/Wikimedia Commons)

Policy

Witnesses Will Vouch for Stablecoins, Digital Dollars in US Senate Hearing Tuesday

Witnesses will discuss stablecoins and tokenized dollars during Tuesday's Senate Banking hearing on the digitization of money.

Christopher Giancarlo (CoinDesk archives)

Policy

Mapping the Future of the SEC (There's a Nonzero Chance Hester Peirce Takes Over)

The future of the U.S.’s federal securities regulator, and perhaps the direction of cryptocurrency policy, is up in the air. We game out the scenarios.

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Markets

AML Bitcoin Founder Claims DC Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, US Government Are 'Extorting' Him

AML Bitcoin's Marcus Andrade claims he is being extorted by the U.S. government in a response to Thursday's charges by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Markets

DOJ Indicts Founder of Anti-Money Laundering Bitcoin Project for Money Laundering

Rowland Marcus Andrade, the founder of AML Bitcoin, was indicted on wire fraud and money laundering charges related in part to an initial coin offering conducted in 2017 and 2018.

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Policy

New York Moves to Lure Crypto Startups as BitLicense Turns Five

Five years after erecting a wall around its market few crypto startups could scale – a wall known as the BitLicense – New York is handing down a ladder.

NYDFS Superintendent Linda Lacewell (NYDFS)

Policy

BitLicense Recipients

A list of all New York Department of Financial Service BitLicense and limited purpose trust charter recipients.

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Finance

Veteran Commodities Trader Chris Hehmeyer Goes All In on Crypto

Hehmeyer Trading is ditching its non-crypto businesses to focus solely on being a market maker in a space its founder, longtime trader Chris Hehmeyer, calls "liberating."

Veteran commodities trader Chris Hehmeyer is steering his firm to full-time market making for the crypto space. (Courtesy Chris Hehmeyer)

Finance

'Big 4' Auditor KPMG Launches Crypto Asset Management Tools

KPMG has built a suite of tools designed to make it easier to collate and query data from both traditional databases and blockchains, allowing for streamlined cryptoasset management.

KPMG's Chain Fusion project has been in the works for a year, said project director Sam Wyner. (Eddie Jordan Photos / Shutterstock)