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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Finance

MicroStrategy Founder Michael Saylor Loses Court Bid to Dismiss DC Tax Evasion Claims

The court did dismiss claims against the company and Saylor that they conspired to violate Washington, D.C.’s False Claims Act.

Executive Chairman MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Finance

Kraken Pulling Back From Using Signature Bank: Bloomberg

Non-corporate clients will no longer be able to make dollar deposits or withdrawals using the crypto-focused bank, according to a report.

Consensus 2018 Sponsor branding kraken (CoinDesk)

Finance

Goldman Sachs Says It’s Open to Adding Staff to Digital Assets Team: Bloomberg

The investment bank’s tokenization platform was used by Hong Kong to sell digital bonds last week.

(Ramin Talaie/Getty Images)

Finance

Robinhood Received Crypto-Related Subpoena Request From SEC: 10K

The trading platform also received similar subpoena requests from the California Attorney General’s office.

Robinhood app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)

Finance

Block’s Q4 Bitcoin Revenue Fell 7% Year Over Year to $1.83B

For the full year, Block’s bitcoin revenue declined 29% from 2021 due to the fall in the price of bitcoin, the company said.

Block's Cash App (Shutterstock)

Finance

Dapper Labs Laying Off Another 20% of Its Staff

The job cuts follow a previous 22% workforce reduction in November.

Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images)

Finance

Binance Shifts to ‘Semi-Automated’ Process to Manage Reserves of Tokens It Issues

Reserves for these tokens had previously been mixed with customer funds.

Las especulaciones recientes sobre el estado de Binance, el exchange de criptomonedas más importante del mundo, también golpearon la participación de mercado de su stablecoin. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase Q4 Revenue and Earnings Beat Expectations, but Transaction Volume Falls 12% From Q3

The crypto exchange reported its fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday after the close.

(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Finance

Binance Considers Severing US Ties in Face of Crypto Crackdown: Bloomberg

The crypto exchange has been investigated by a host of U.S. regulators and government agencies.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

SEC Sues Terraform Labs, Do Kwon for Misleading Investors on TerraUSD Stablecoin

The collapse of TerraUSD last year led to a wave of bankruptcies in the crypto industry.

Daniel Shin, izquierda, y Do Kwon, cofundadores de Terra. (Terraform Labs)