Nelson Wang

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.

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Finanza

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.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk archives)

Mercati

More Tokenized Treasuries Arrive on Polygon as Digital Bond Market Expands

Ondo’s OUSG token, one of the largest on-chain tokenized Treasury products, has accrued $134 million of assets under management on Ethereum.

U.S. Treasury Department seal (Bill Perry/Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)

Web3

Google Play Changes Policy on Tokenized Digital Assets, Allowing NFTs in Apps and Games

The company is opening up the ability for developers to let users buy, sell or earn digital assets in apps as long as they maintain transparency and adhere to other rules.

Google Play (Victoria_Regen/Pixabay)

Finanza

Silk Road–Linked Bitcoin Worth $300M Moved by U.S. Government: On-Chain Data

The U.S. government previously sold 9,861 bitcoin for $216 million in March.

U.S. government moves bitcoin (Blockchain.com)

Politiche

Coinbase Knew It May Have Been Violating the Law Prior to the SEC's Lawsuit, Regulator Claims

The SEC pushed back against a previous Coinbase filing which argued that the regulator did not have sufficient jurisdiction to bring a lawsuit.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk)

Finanza

Top Binance Execs Leave Company Over CZ’s Handling of DOJ Investigation: Report

Three senior officials left the exchange this week, a source told Fortune.

Binance's Changpeng "CZ" Zhao

Finanza

Taylor Swift Approved Sponsorship Deal With FTX, Despite Previous Reports: NYT

Swift signed the sponsorship agreement worth as much as $100 million following more than six months of discussions.

Taylor Swift performs onstage during at Paycor Stadium on June 30, 2023 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Getty Images)

Tecnologie

Former FTX.US President’s New Venture Is Seeking to Harness AI for Crypto Trading

Brett Harrison’s new firm, Architect, aims to be an one-stop platform for institutional-grade crypto trading.

Brett Harrison (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finanza

Crypto Miner Hive Blockchain Touts Privacy of AI Models Running on Its GPUs

Hive wants to provide enterprise training in its fleet of GPUs as part of its pivot to artificial intelligence.

(Sandali Handagama)

Mercati

Sudden Crypto Volatility Spurs $216M in Losses, Liquidating Both Long and Short Positions

Cryptocurrency prices rose early Friday but then dropped sharply following a report that the SEC had deemed recent spot BTC filings inadequate.

Crypto liquidations (CoinGlass)