Tracy Wang

Tracy Wang was the deputy managing editor of CoinDesk's finance and deals team, based in New York City. She has reported on a wide range of topics in crypto, including decentralized finance, venture capital, exchanges and market-makers, DAOs and NFTs. Previously, she worked in traditional finance ("tradfi") as a hedge funds analyst at an asset management firm. She owns BTC, ETH, MINA, ENS, and some NFTs.

Tracy won the 2022 George Polk award in Financial Reporting for coverage that led to the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale College.

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Markets

Terra Backers Buy $200M in AVAX Tokens, Bolstering Crypto Reserves Beyond BTC

The Luna Foundation Guard bought $100 million in AVAX with UST stablecoins. Terraform Labs swapped an additional $100 million in LUNA for the same value in AVAX.

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Finance

Crypto Trading Firm Wintermute Launches Zero-Fee OTC Platform

Wintermute Node will compete against other institutional trading platforms in a bid to expand the firm’s client base.

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Markets

Pudgy Penguins NFT Collection Looks to Next Chapter With $2.5M Sale

The collection of 8,888 digital penguins has been sold to LA-based entrepreneur Luca Netz in a 750 ETH deal.

Pudgy Penguins are a collection of 8,888 NFTs with proof of ownership stored on the Ethereum blockchain (OpenSea).

Finance

OpenSea Exec Who Quit After ‘Insider Trading’ Scandal Is Back With NFT Platform

Two pitch decks seen by CoinDesk show that OpenSea’s former head of product, Nate Chastain, is building a platform to simplify the NFT discovery process.

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Finance

Can Avalanche Win Over Wall Street and 'Degens' Alike?

At the inaugural Avalanche Summit in Barcelona, Spain, the speedy Ethereum alternative looked to court users onto its subnets.

Avalanche founder Emin Gün Sirer speaks in Barcelona. (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)

Finance

Jump Crypto Wants You to Know Its Name

A secretive trading giant with an army of developers is taking an increasingly active role in building key crypto infrastructure.

Jump Crypto President Kanav Kariya speaks at the 2022 Avalanche Summit in Barcelona. (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)

Finance

Ex-Polychain Partner Tekin Salimi Launches $125M Crypto Venture Fund

The new fund plans to convert into a decentralized autonomous organization, and involves Terra’s Do Kwon and Avalanche’s Emin Gün Sirer.

Tekin Salimi (dao5)

Tech

Avalanche Announces New ‘Core’ Wallet, Bitcoin Bridge at AVAX Summit

The pair of product upgrades are meant to boost Avalanche’s DeFi ecosystem.

AVA Labs Head of Product Nick Mussallem speaks at the Avalanche Summit in Barcelona. (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)

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Finance

Lemonade Is Working With Avalanche, Chainlink on Weather Insurance for Farmers

A newly formed DAO backed by the Lemonade Foundation will roll out permissionless weather insurance to African farmers later this year.

(Nguyen Tong Hai Van/Unsplash)

Tech

Andrew Yang Wants Web 3 to Prove the Haters Wrong

With a pair of new DAOs, is Andrew Yang crypto’s political darling?

Andrew Yang (Kena Betancur/Getty Images)