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

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Says Firm Invested $24M in FTX: Reuters

The executive said it appears there were "misbehaviors" at FTX.

BlackRock invested $24 million in failed crypto exchange FTX. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Finance

Sam Bankman-Fried Addresses Withdrawals, FTX Collapse in Newly Released Audio Interview

The FTX founder said he unpaused Bahamian FTX withdrawals to “appease” local customers and added his lawyers to the groups of people he said can “go f**k themselves.”

El ex CEO de FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Crypto Exchange Kraken Settles Case With US Treasury Over Serving Customers in Iran

Kraken has agreed to pay $362,159 to settle its potential liability for violating U.S. sanctions.

Kraken CEO Dave Ripley (Kraken)

Policy

US State Regulators Investigating Crypto Trading Firm Genesis Global Capital: Barron’s

Several regulators, including the Alabama Securities Commission, are looking into whether Genesis may have violated securities laws, according to the report.

(Genesis Trading, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Founder of EOS Developer Block.One Buys 9.3% of Crypto Bank Silvergate

The purchase makes Brendan Blumer the largest holder of Silvergate Capital.

Brendan Blumer (Wikimedia)

Policy

Ohio Investment Manager Arrested for Allegedly Running a $10M Cryptocurrency Ponzi Scheme

The U.S. CFTC had previously taken legal action against the man.

Law Justice Court Legal (Shutterstock)

Finance

Sam Bankman-Fried Cashed Out $300M in Previous Funding Round: Report

In a previously undisclosed detail, most of the $420 million raised in October 2021 went directly to Bankman-Fried, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Former FTX CEO Sam-Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

California Finance Regulator Moves to Suspend Crypto Lender Salt’s License

Salt announced on Tuesday it was pausing customer withdrawals due to the impact of FTX’s collapse.

California's DFPI is suspending Salt's license (Shutterstock)

Finance

US Crypto Investors Sue FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, Company’s Celebrity Endorsers

The plaintiffs in a class-action suit claim that the heavily-marketed FTX yield-bearing crypto accounts were actually a Ponzi scheme.

Comedian Larry David appeared in a Super Bowl ad for FTX (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO)

Finance

Genesis’ Crypto-Lending Unit Is Halting Customer Withdrawals in Wake of FTX Collapse

The unit, known as Genesis Global Capital, serves an institutional client base and had $2.8 billion in total active loans as of the end of the third quarter of 2022.

(Genesis Trading, modified by CoinDesk)