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

GSR Partners With Canaan-Tied Startup to Offer Crypto Miners Derivatives

GSR and Interhash want to help crypto miners hedge their costs with a new series of derivatives products.

Stack of bitcoin miners

Markets

Fowler May Change 'Not Guilty' Plea in Crypto Capital Laundering Case

Crypto Capital principal Reginald Fowler is expected to plead guilty to at least one charge stemming from allegations he ran an unlicensed money services business.

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Markets

SEC Proposal Would Broaden 'Accredited Investor' Definition

The SEC's proposed amendment would allow more investors access to private capital markets.

SEC (Image via Mark Van Scyoc / Shutterstock)

Markets

Circle Pivots to Stablecoin Platform as More Execs, Teams Depart

Circle will focus on its stablecoin business next year, following the sale of its OTC desk to Kraken and the departure of its chief financial and legal officers.

Sean Neville image via CoinDesk archives

Markets

ErisX Takes on Bakkt With Launch of Physically Settled US Bitcoin Futures

ErisX plans to work with futures commission merchants and brokerages starting next year, allowing investors hoping to trade its physically settled bitcoin futures an alternative to Bakkt

ErisX CEO Thomas Chippas (Credit: CoinDesk archives)

Markets

‘Request for Exhumation’: QuadrigaCX Creditors Ask for Proof That Cotten Is Dead

Creditors of QuadrigaCX have asked the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to exhume and conduct an autopsy of the failed exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten.

Gerald Cotten, difunto CEO de QuadrigaCX, alrededor de 2015.

Policy

New York Attorney General Calls Bitfinex's Legal Stance 'Deeply Perverse' in New Filing

In a sharply worded brief, the New York Attorney General's Office has criticized the exchange's tactics in its case involving the Tether stablecoin's backing.

New York supreme court

Finance

TokenSoft Scores Transfer Agent Registration to Build 'Automated Investment Bank'

Crypto startup TokenSoft is closing in on a key regulatory seal of approval as it seeks to build an investment bank for the age of tokenization.

Tokensoft CEO Mason Borda

Markets

SEC Charges Shopin CEO With Fraud Over Unregistered $42M ICO

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Shopin and its founder Eran Eyal with fraud after a $42 million initial coin offering.

SEC (Image via Mark Van Scyoc / Shutterstock)

Markets

New York Regulator Details Changes to Contentious BitLicense

The New York Department of Financial Services has outlined a new approach to approving what coins crypto exchanges can list in the Empire State.

NYDFS Superintendent Linda Lacewell (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)