Nikhilesh De

Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation, covering regulators, lawmakers and institutions. He owns < $50 in BTC and < $20 in ETH. He won a Gerald Loeb award in the beat reporting category as part of CoinDesk's blockbuster FTX coverage in 2023, and was named the Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers' Journalist of the Year in 2020.

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U.S. Blacklists Crypto Network Behind Ruble-Backed Stablecoin and Shuttered Exchange Garantex

U.S. officials accused Garantex, Grinex, A7A5 token issuers and executives of laundering ransomware proceeds and evading sanctions.

Moscow.

Finance

Ethereum Wallet MetaMask Will Likely Unveil Its Own Stablecoin this Week

The MetaMask stablecoin (mUSD) was already reported to be in the works thanks to a prematurely posted governance proposal that was quickly deleted last week.

A fox (Unsplash)

Finance

Institutional Frenzy Pushes Ethereum DEX Volumes Above Solana

Ethereum-based decentralized exchanges have overtaken Solana in trading volume for the first time since April, buoyed by record spot ETF inflows and a surge in institutional demand.

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Policy

A16z, DeFi Group Pitch U.S. SEC on Safe Harbor for DeFi Apps

The crypto investment firm and the DeFi Education Fund have proposed an approach to exempting broker registration for tech offering gateways to DeFi activity.

SEC (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Policy

Terraform's Do Kwon Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy, Wire Fraud in UST Blow-up

The 33-year-old Korean national said he "knowingly" participated in a scheme that defrauded purchasers.

Do Kwon (CoinDesk archives)

Policy

Who Is Patrick Witt, President Trump's Next Senior Adviser on Crypto?

The White House's crypto group will apparently be led again by an ex-college football star-turned-politician, though this one has some deeper DC roots.

Patrick Witt readies a pass when he led the Yale Bulldogs in 2010. (Elsa/Getty Images)

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Terra's Do Kwon to Change 'Not Guilty' Plea in US Fraud Case

Do Kwon previously had pleaded "not guilty" to multiple fraud charges earlier this year.

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Finance

Harvard Reports $116M Stake in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETF in Latest Filing

The position marks one of the largest known bitcoin allocations by a U.S. university endowment.

Harvard University library (Pascal Bernardon/Unsplash)

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Policy

SEC's Long-Running Case Against Ripple Officially Over

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission first sued Ripple in 2020, during Donald Trump's first term.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse prepares to testify in the Senate (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Donald Trump Signs Order Letting Crypto Into 401(k) Retirement Plans

The order directs the Department of Labor to reevaluate how crypto should be treated by retirement fund managers.

U.S. President Donald Trump (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)