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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Finance

Fan Club for Solana's Saga Phone Loses 750 SOL

Saga DAO's founder had moved the funds to a wallet whose multisig protections never came online.

Saga phone (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Avalanche Foundation Puts Rules on Plans to Buy Meme Coins

Only meme coins native to the Avalanche blockchain will be considered, according to new guidelines.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Abra to Open Withdrawals After Settling with Texas Regulators

More than 12,000 investors could be able to withdraw roughly $13 million worth of crypto, according to a new settlement between Abra and state regulators.

Abra CEO Bill Barhydt speaks during SALT 2022

Policy

SEC Shut Off Extra Security on X For About 6 Months, Letting Hacker Breeze In

The U.S. regulator confirmed it didn't take its own security advice through much of 2023, leaving it open for a costly social-media hack that's still under investigation.

Gary Gensler's SEC must now decide what to do about multiple applications for BTC and ETH ETFs (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Policy

Bailing DeSantis May Leave Deafening Crypto Silence in 2024 Presidential Race

The Florida governor and Vivek Ramaswamy had been the most strident Republican voices on digital assets issues for 2024, but both gave way to the Trump political juggernaut.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ' departure from the presidential campaign field likely means less crypto talk in the 2024 election. (CoinDesk screen grab from governor's office video)

Policy

FTX Affiliate Alameda Research Drops Grayscale Lawsuit

FTX liquidators are scrapping a costly legal battle to secure money for FTX creditors, following GBTC's conversion into a spot bitcoin ETF.

The now-former FTX Arena (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk archives)

Finance

FTX Sold About $1B of Grayscale's Bitcoin ETF, Explaining Much of Outflow: Sources

BTC's price has fallen since bitcoin ETFs were approved. In theory, now that FTX is done selling its substantial holdings, the selling pressure could ease since a bankruptcy estate liquidating holdings is a relatively unique event.

FTX logo (Adobe Firefly)

Policy

U.S., U.K., Australia Sanction Hamas-Affiliated Crypto Transaction Facilitators

The U.S. designated two companies that helped move crypto for Hamas, according to a Treasury Department press release.

The U.S. is weighing crypto tax rules, and a hearing today will hear from industry representatives worried about the government going too far. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk.)

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Policy

The SEC Goes Back to Court

A week after approving many spot bitcoin ETFs, the SEC faced Coinbase and Binance in court.

SEC logo (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Policy

Crypto Industry Cautiously Welcomes Agreement on New EU AML Rules

NFTs, DeFi and outlawing privacy tools might be out, but for crypto firms, requirements for customer checks might be more stringent than for banks, policy watchers told CoinDesk.

European Parliament (Frederic Köberl/ Unsplash)