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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Tech

AI Is Here, but That Doesn’t Mean Bitcoin Miners Are Finished: Blockspace

Public bitcoin miners are rushing to build AI business lines, but there’s still room for their original mandate, says this investment bank analyst.

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Opinion

Why The SEC Needs to Allow Staking in Exchange-Traded Products

A bipartisan challenge to the SEC's exclusion of staking from ETPs is an essential step to maintaining America’s competitiveness in the digital asset markets.

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Opinion

How Hong Kong Can Seize the Mantle as Asia’s Crypto Hub

Establishing the proper regulatory environment is essential; here’s what the territory needs to do.

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Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

What’s Better Than CEX? DEX

CoinDesk caught up with CoinGecko’s Bobby Ong to talk about all the good things — but mostly the bad things — about crypto’s centralized exchanges.

CoinGecko co-founder Bobby Ong speaks at Invest: Asia 2019 (Wolfie Zhao/CoinDesk)

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Hong Kong’s Patient Approach to Regulating Crypto Will Pay Off: LegCo's Duncan Chiu

Devising clear rules for the industry is important, but it can also help to wait for others to move first, argues Chiu.

Duncan Chiu

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Crypto and Boxing to Converge at Consensus HK in Lethal One-Two Combination

Attendees at this year’s conference will be able to experience a unique live event that’s tapping into a cultural moment.

Ansem vs. Bitboy CFN

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Crypto.com President Eric Anziani on the Exchange’s Ambitious Global Plans

The Singapore-based exchange has made a plethora of announcements regarding its plans for the E.U., the U.S. and Asia.

Crypto.com president Eric Anziani

Coindesk News

Weekly Recap: Ripple Makes Waves and Stablecoins Surge

Plus: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev calls for tokenized equity. Bitwise files for a dogecoin EFT. And SBF’s parents seek a presidential pardon.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse. (Christopher Michel/Wikimedia Commons)

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy Discusses the Future of Crypto Trading

The algorithmic trading firm’s founder opines on AI’s growing role, the differences between Asian and Western markets, and liquidity fragmentation.

Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Telecom’s Future Lies in Decentralized Networks

The financial and other advantages of decentralized network physical infrastructure networks (DePINs) like Helium are impossible for telecom firms to ignore.

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