Nelson Wang

Nelson Wang

Nelson was CoinDesk’s U.S. News Editor for the East Coast. He previously served as the technology stocks editor and consumer stocks editor at TheStreet, and prior to that was the business and personal finance editor for Yahoo.com. He has also held editing positions at 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 and ETH above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Coinbase to Pause Staking in California, New Jersey, South Carolina and Wisconsin
The SEC filed a lawsuit last month against the crypto exchange alleging that its retail staking service constitute securities.
Coinbase app on smartphone (Chesnot/Getty Images)
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
FTX Pauses Sale of $500M Stake in AI Firm Anthropic: Bloomberg
The move followed months of due diligence on the stake being done by the bidders, according to Bloomberg’s sources.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Polygon Takes Wraps Off Version 2.0
The protocol calls its latest version “the value layer of the Internet.”
Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
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Coinbase Shares Rise as Q1 Revenue Grows 23% to $773M From Q4
The crypto exchange reported results after the close on Thursday.
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Coinbase No Longer Supporting Signature Bank’s Signet Network: WSJ
The fate of Signet has been unclear since Signature Bank was shut down by New York State regulators last weekend.
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
FTX Firms Had $6.8B Hole in Balance Sheet at Time of Bankruptcy
The group of companies had debts of about $11.6 billion against $4.8 billion in assets, according to a presentation filed by its advisers.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Shares of crypto companies were rising on Friday. (Jay Radhakrishnan)
Coinbase, Hut 8 and Other Crypto Stocks Rise as Bitcoin Surpasses $27.6K
BTC’s price is up over 10% over the last 24 hours.
Shares of crypto companies were rising on Friday. (Jay Radhakrishnan)
Anchorage Digital President Diogo Monica (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Crypto Platform Anchorage Digital Laying Off 20% of Its Staff
The firm said that U.S. regulatory uncertainty played a role in its decision.
Anchorage Digital President Diogo Monica (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
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Justice Department Investigating TerraUSD Stablecoin Collapse: Reports
The investigations follow the filing of the SEC’s civil fraud lawsuit against Terraform Labs and Do Kwon last month.
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FDIC Planning to Try Auctioning Silicon Valley Bank Again: WSJ
The designation of SVB’s failure as a potential systemic threat gives the FDIC more options to sell the bank.
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