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

Opinion

How AI Agents and Crypto Will Revolutionize Commerce

The synergy between AI and decentralized protocols will be central to the transformation of commerce, argues the founder of infrastructure firm Boson Protocol.

Jan 29, 2025

AI agent tokens has garnered significant mindshare among crypto traders, growing into a multibillion dollar asset class. (Getty Images/Unsplash)

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Figment CEO Lorien Gabel’s Big Bet on Staking Has Paid Off

The staking provider’s co-founder and CEO discusses the evolution of staking and its growing adoption in Asia.

Jan 28, 2025

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

The Sandbox’s Sébastien Borget on the Future of Web3 Gaming

The co-founder of the popular metaverse platform discusses how Asia is driving the next wave of Web3 innovation.

Jan 28, 2025

Sandbox co-founder and COO Sebastien Borget

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

EasyA Wants to Attract More Than Just ‘Bounty Hunters’ to Its Hackathons

The start-up is hosting hackathons at the upcoming Consensus conferences in Hong Kong and Toronto that are expected to attract hundreds of developers.

Jan 24, 2025

Easy A co-founders Phil (left) and Dominic Kwok

Finance

Anvil Launches DeFi Protocol for Letters of Credit

Founder Tyler Spalding sees the Ethereum-based smart contract project as a step towards creating a new form of money for payments, loans and counterparty credit in DeFi.

Jan 23, 2025

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

The Next Bridge.xyz? BlindPay's CEO Wants to Revolutionize Global Payments

Bernardo Moura is looking to upend SWIFT’s dominance of the massive international payments industry, starting with Latin America.

Jan 23, 2025

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Amanu: Bringing Apple-Like Simplicity to Crypto Wallets

Founder Gianlua Minoprio is hoping to dramatically increase wallet adoption by eliminating the use of seed phrases, among other innovations.

Jan 16, 2025

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

RampMeDaddy Turns Telegram Into Your Memecoin Wallet

Co-founders Andrey Chabanov and Trevor Hoffman are looking to make crypto transfers as easy as sending a text message.

Jan 16, 2025

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

ARC’s Elroy Cheo on How Asia Is Doing Web3 Differently

The co-founder of the exclusive Web3 community argues that Asia is uniquely positioned to lead the next phase of NFT innovation.

Jan 15, 2025

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Stacks’ Muneeb Ali: Let the Bitcoin L2s Bloom

Fresh off completing significant technical upgrades, Ali is now laser focused on growing Stacks’ user base.

Jan 13, 2025

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