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

Fred Thiel: The Michael Saylor of the Bitcoin Mining Industry

The CEO of MARA Holdings has gone all-in on bitcoin, adding billions of dollars worth of the world’s largest cryptocurrency to MARA’s balance sheet.

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Finance

Howard Lutnick: Tether’s Big Backer

The CEO of prominent bond broker Cantor Fitzgerald played a major role in validating Tether this year by vouching for its reserves.

A portrait of Cantor Fitzgerald's Howard Lutnick (CoinDesk/Pudgy Penguins)

Finance

Evan Cheng: The Architect of Sui's Object-Oriented Revolution

Sui is re-thinking what blockchains can be. And this year, many of Wall Street's largest institutions are taking note.

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Tech

Erik Voorhees: Merging Crypto and AI

The founder of DEX ShapeShift has launched a new AI platform that’s meant to be a safer and more neutral alternative to ChatGPT and Claude.

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Tech

Eric Wall, Udi Wertheimer and Francisco Alarcon: Upgrading Bitcoin With Covenants

The founders of the popular Taproot Wizards JPEGs want to do more now to “make bitcoin magical again.”

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Tech

Steve Yun: Driving Web3 Adoption Via Telegram

The president of the TON Foundation has millions tapping their phones to earn crypto.

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Tech

David Tse: Bringing Staking to Bitcoin

It’s been a banner year for Babylon, the staking protocol co-founded by Tse.

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Policy

Cynthia Lummis: Laser-Eyed Lawmaker

The Wyoming senator has been a major crypto supporter since joining Congress in 2021. Now she’s the leading advocate for creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

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Tech

Ray Chan: Bridging Web2 and Web3 With Memes

The CEO of Memeland turned memes into cultural currency with 9GAG. Now, he's using crypto to transform them into tools for engagement and community.

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Finance

Adam Sullivan: The Man Who Made Mining Sexy Again

Core Scientific’s CEO pioneered the highly lucrative move by bitcoin miners into AI computation work.

Adam Sullivan