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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Web3

Lacoste Expands Its NFT Ecosystem With New Rewards

The latest expansion of the Lacoste Web3 universe grants holders access to "creative sessions, contests, video games and interactive conversations."

Lacoste UNDW3 card. (Lacoste)

Finance

Fidelity Refiles for Spot Bitcoin ETF

The refiling for the asset manager's previously-rejected fund comes about two weeks after BlackRock applied for its own spot bitcoin ETF.

Fidelity Investments sign (Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock)

Tech

Decentralized Exchange PancakeSwap Goes Live on Polygon zkEVM Blockchain

This will be the popular DEX’s fourth blockchain after BNB Chain, Ethereum and Aptos.

Pancakes.(Mae Mu/Unsplash)

Policy

Ex-FTX Compliance Officer Sued for Allegedly Paying Off Would-Be Whistleblowers

FTX's lawyers allege Daniel Friedberg allowed its executives' criminal activities to fly under the radar for years.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Tech

Chainlink Data Feeds Go Live on Celo

In April, Celo joined Chainlink Scale to access the data provider’s oracle services at a low cost.

(Chainlink)

Finance

FTX Pauses Sale of $500M Stake in AI Firm Anthropic: Bloomberg

The move followed months of due diligence on the stake being done by the bidders, according to Bloomberg’s sources.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in March of 2023. He could be returning to jail early if a court decides he has violated conditions of his bail. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Markets

First Leveraged Bitcoin ETF in U.S. Sees $4.2M in Trading Volume Since Debut

The ETF saw about $500K worth of trades in the first 15 minutes.

(AhmadArdity/Pixabay)

Markets

ADA, SOL Underperform as Robinhood Gets Set to Delist Them Amid SEC Crackdown

The popular trading app will no longer support the trading of Cardano, Solana and Polygon after Tuesday.

Trading app Robinhood has added Solana, Pepe, Cardano and XRP to the list of cryptocurrencies available to trade on its platform. (Unsplash)

Finance

Fireblocks Adds Support for Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud

The crypto infrastructure provider has so far helped over 50 major financial institutions transition into the digital asset space.

Fireblocks sign at Miami airport during Bitcoin Miami conference 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Leading House Democrat Solicits Feedback From Gensler and Yellen on Crypto Bill

The bill would provide guidelines for U.S.-based crypto exchanges to register with regulators.

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