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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Markets

A Multibillion-Dollar Cryptocurrency Based on 'Lies': US Arrests Alleged OneCoin Leader

Konstantin Ignatov, one of the heads of the infamous OneCoin pyramid scheme, has been arrested on wire fraud charges.

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Markets

Fidelity Crypto Chief Says Hard Fork May Delay Firm's Support for Ethereum

Fidelity's crypto trading and custody business is live and supporting bitcoin, but adding ether might take a while.

Tom Jessop, head of Fidelity Digital Assets

Markets

City of Denver to Pilot Blockchain Voting App in Coming Elections

The U.S. city of Denver plans to utilize a blockchain system from a firm called Voatz to store and track votes in its May municipal elections.

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Markets

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse on JPM Coin: Other Banks Won't Use It

Ripple's CEO gave JPMorgan qualified praise for developing its own cryptocurrency before dismissing the product's usefulness.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse

Markets

Court Gives QuadrigaCX 45-Day Extension in Search for Crypto Millions

A judge has given QuadrigaCX another month and a half to locate the $140 million of crypto owed to the exchange's customers.

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Markets

Futures Trading Nears $1 Billion in First Month at Kraken Crypto Exchange

Crypto Facilities, which provides futures data to CME, saw its own trading volume jump five-fold after being acquired by Kraken.

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Markets

Crypto 'Prime Broker' Tagomi Raises $12 Million in Round Led by Paradigm

Tagomi, a startup billing itself as crypto's answer to Wall Street prime brokerages, has raised another $12 million.

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Markets

Tether to Launch New Version of USDT Stablecoin on Tron Blockchain

Tether is gearing up to launch its controversial stablecoin as a native token on the Tron blockchain.

Justin Sun speaks at niTRON Summit 2019 in San Francisco, photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk

Markets

$100 Million Short: QuadrigaCX Audit Can't Account for 26K Missing Bitcoin

QuadrigaCX's court-appointed monitor has finally provided blockchain addresses for the exchange's cold bitcoin wallets. They're nearly empty.

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Finance

Ripple Scores Minor Victory in US Securities Class Action

A judge has ruled that a class action lawsuit against Ripple must remain in federal court, potentially giving the firm a slight advantage.

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