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

Sam Bankman-Fried Says He’d Consider Acquiring Troubled Crypto Miners Next

The FTX CEO said helping bail out crypto miners might help mitigate the credit contagion in the crypto sector.

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO de FTX. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Voyager Digital Temporarily Suspends All Trading, Withdrawals and Deposits

Shares of the troubled digital broker plunged more than 26% in U.S. trading on Friday.

The Voyager Digital app (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

FTX Close to Buying BlockFi for Just $25M

The beleaguered crypto lender was reportedly close to finalizing a down round valuing it at $1 billion earlier this month.

Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO de FTX. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Robinhood Shares Spike on Report FTX May Be Seeking to Acquire It

Plans are still in the preliminary stages, according to a report from Bloomberg.

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Finance

Moody’s Downgrades Coinbase’s Debt on Profitability Concerns

The ratings agency has also put the crypto exchange’s ratings under review for further downgrade.

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Policy

SEC Launches Inquiry Into Insider Trading at Crypto Exchanges: Report

The agency has sent a letter to at least one major crypto exchange asking about its safeguards, according to Fox Business.

SEC building (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

Grayscale, Bitwise Confident a Spot Bitcoin ETF Will Be Approved Soon

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan pointed to a progression of approval decisions by the SEC that “ends in a spot bitcoin ETF.”

Grayscale Global Head of ETFs David LaValle, Valkyrie Chief Strategy Officer Lori Tiernan and Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan at Consensus 2022 (Nelson Wang for CoinDesk)

Policy

US Regulators Investigating Binance’s BNB Token: Report

The SEC is looking into whether the crypto exchange should have registered the initial coin offering of Binance coin as a security, according to Bloomberg.

Zhao Changpeng, chief executive officer of Binance, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. The worlds biggest cryptocurrency exchange keeps getting bigger. Binance.com is adding a couple of million registered users every week, with 240,000 people signing up in just an hour on Wednesday, said Zhao. Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Finance

Middle Eastern Crypto Exchange Rain Lays Off Dozens of Employees: Report

The move follows news of workforce reductions at a number of exchanges in the U.S. and worldwide.

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Finance

Dogecoin Jumps on Elon Musk SpaceX Tweet

The Tesla CEO said merchandise for his space exploration startup could soon be bought using the meme cryptocurrency.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk once again tweeted about DOGE on Friday. (Getty Images)