Nelson Wang

U.S. News Editor, East Coast

Nelson edits features and opinion stories and was previously CoinDesk’s U.S. News Editor for the East Coast. He has also been an editor at Unchained and DL News, and prior to working at CoinDesk, he was the technology stocks editor and consumer stocks editor at TheStreet. He has also held editing positions at Yahoo.com and Condé Nast Portfolio’s website, and was the content director for aMedia, an Asian American media company. Nelson grew up on Long Island, New York and went to Harvard College, earning a degree in Social Studies. He holds BTC, ETH and SOL above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

Latest from Nelson Wang

Finance

Tesla Didn’t Buy or Sell Any Bitcoin for Fourth Straight Quarter in Q2

The value of its bitcoin holdings remained at $184 million.

Jul 19, 2023

Policy

SEC Chair Gensler Cites 'Wild West' of Crypto in Case to Increase Agency's Budget

The chairman asked U.S. lawmakers for $72 million in extra funding to, among other things, protect investors from crypto markets “rife with noncompliance.”

Jul 19, 2023

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Finance

Nasdaq Halts Plan for Crypto Custody Service Due to U.S. Regulatory Conditions

The stock market operator had said in March that it was putting together infrastructure and regulatory approval for the custodian service.

Jul 19, 2023

Finance

Mantle’s MNT Token Outpaces Rival Layer 2 Blockchains Over Past 24 Hours

After launching its mainnet on Monday, Mantle’s utility and governance token has jumped roughly 4%, more than the native tokens of Arbitrum and Optimism over the past day.

Jul 18, 2023

Finance

Messaging Platform Telegram Has Issued $270M in Bonds to Fund Growth

"I personally bought about a quarter of the new Telegram bonds," said Pavel Durov, the CEO of the popular but not-yet-profitable platform.

Jul 18, 2023

Policy

G20 Nations Welcome FSB's Tougher Crypto Rules, Says Presidency Holder India

On Monday, international standard-setter FSB called for tougher rules on safeguarding crypto clients’ assets.

Jul 18, 2023

(L-R) Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India and Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian Finance Minister at the G20 Annual Meetings, in Washington DC in October 2022. (Indian Ministry of Finance)

Policy

SEC's Gensler 'Disappointed' by Part of Ripple's XRP Judgement, Still Assessing Opinion

Ripple scored a partial victory in its fight with the SEC last week with a court ruling that institutional sales of the tokens violated federal securities laws, but sales on exchanges and programmatic sales did not.

Jul 17, 2023

SEC Chair Gensler (Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images)

Finance

Coinbase to Pause Staking in California, New Jersey, South Carolina and Wisconsin

The SEC filed a lawsuit last month against the crypto exchange alleging that its retail staking service constitute securities.

Jul 14, 2023

Coinbase's Base blockchain has gone live (Chesnot/Getty Images)

Policy

Coinbase, SEC Spar Over Definition of Securities, Nature of Staking in First Court Hearing

U.S. Judge Katherine Polk Faila questioned both sides on a range of topics in a Manhattan courthouse on Thursday.

Jul 13, 2023

The Southern District of New York's courthouse (elbud / Shutterstock)

Finance

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Asks Twitter Followers if Their BofA Accounts Were Closed Because of Crypto Transactions

The Coinbase CEO created a Twitter poll posing the question, and a whopping 9% of respondents said “yes.”

Jul 13, 2023

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk archives)

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