Nikhilesh De

Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation, covering regulators, lawmakers and institutions. When he's not reporting on digital assets and policy, he can be found admiring Amtrak or building LEGO trains. He owns < $50 in BTC and < $20 in ETH. He was named the Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers' Journalist of the Year in 2020.

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Policy

Financial Regulators Reiterate Call for Legislation to Address Crypto Risks

The Financial Stability Oversight Council met Thursday, releasing a report detailing all of its concerns from the past year.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Tech

'Bitcoin NFT' Hysteria Comes to Sotheby's as Super-Mario-Style Mushroom Character Tops $200K

In the historic auction house's first-ever sale of the Ordinals inscriptions known as "NFTs on Bitcoin," a batch of three pixelated images from a mushroom-themed collection drew about $450,000, or roughly five times the highest estimates.

Screenshot of BitcoinShrooms website showing items from the collection. (Bitcoinshrooms.com)

Markets

Crypto Trader Turns $1K Into $100K on Solana’s Newest Memecoin, Dogwifhat

Like it or not, dog tokens are driving big business in the crypto markets.

The dogwifhat meme (Know your meme)

Policy

In Search of the Elusive Crypto Voter

Next year will see a presidential election. What's crypto's role?

Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Policy

FTX Bankruptcy Judge Takes Step to Shorten Timeline for Customers' Recoveries

FTX victims are closer to getting their money back from the exchange after a federal judge put an end to a time-consuming dispute that has halted the exchange's bankruptcy case.

(Charles Hoffmeyer)

Markets

Bitcoin Bounces Over $43K, Altcoins, Crypto Stocks Burst Higher as Fed Projects Rate Cuts Next Year

Cardano's ADA, Avalanche's AVAX and Injective's INJ tokens led altcoin gains as risk assets rallied on dovish Fed.

Bitcoin price today (CoinDesk)

Policy

CFTC Pushes FTX-Inspired Rule to Protect Customers' Money

Commissioners took a step toward requiring derivatives clearing organizations, a key type of middleman in the industry, to keep their customers' money segregated from their own funds.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission would be granted far-reaching authority over crypto trading and regulation in a new Senate bill. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Anonymous Crypto Interests Bombard Key Senator Sherrod Brown With Political Ads

New crypto advocacy group Cedar Innovation Foundation is running digital ads in Brown's Ohio to persuade him to buck SEC Chair Gary Gensler, but Cedar won't say who's behind it.

A crypto advocacy group with mysterious backing is trying to influence Sen. Sherrod Brown. (Images compiled by CoinDesk, courtesy of Cedar Innovation Foundation)

Policy

U.S. CFTC Approves Bitcoin Futures Platform Bitnomial's Derivatives Clearing Application

The commissioners discussed issues like conflict of interest before ultimately voting in favor of the margined bitcoin futures company.

(Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)