Nelson Wang

U.S. News Editor, East Coast

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.

Latest from Nelson Wang

Policy

SEC Probing Bored Ape Creator Yuga Labs Over Unregistered Offerings: Report

The key legal question at the center of the probe, according to Bloomberg, is whether NFTs are securities.

Oct 11, 2022

(Bored Ape Yacht Club, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

BNB Chain Halts After 'Potential Exploit' Drained Estimated $100M in Crypto

The chain has now resumed operations after fixing a problem that let someone create $570 million of the token, though they were only able to abscond with a smaller amount.

Oct 6, 2022

Binance's Changpeng Zhao speaking at Messari Mainnet (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase Expands Services in Australia, Calling Country a ‘Priority Market for Us’

The crypto exchange is adding a way for retail customers to easily transfer Australian dollars to their Coinbase accounts, among other improvements.

Oct 5, 2022

The Sydney Opera House in Australia (Stanbalik/Pixabay)

Policy

SEC Accuses 2 Firms of Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scheme

The complaint alleges the two companies pumped the price of their cryptocurrency by falsely claiming they had acquired $10 billion in gold bullion to back it.

Sep 30, 2022