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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Policy

Senate Agriculture publishes own version of market structure bill without bipartisan support

The industry's great legislative hope is shifting to the U.S. Senate's Agriculture Committee, which released its own draft of the contentious oversight effort.

Sen. John Boozman, chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Finance

Shark Tank's Kevin O’Leary on betting big on data centers and why most crypto tokens will never come back

The Shark Tank investor is preparing shovel-ready sites for bitcoin miners and data centers, betting that infrastructure — not tokens — will drive the next wave of value.

Kevin O'Leary (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Finance

Private credit may be the breakout use case for tokenization: Maple's Sidney Powell

Maple Finance CEO Sidney Powell said blockchain’s biggest opportunity isn’t tokenized Treasury bills or funds — instead, it’s bringing opaque, illiquid private credit markets onchain.

Art installation reminiscent of digital ecosystems

Policy

Senate's next market structure draft likely pro-crypto, but industry insiders are worried Democrats may not be on board

The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee's next draft is expected to shield developers from liability, insiders have been advised, but it may without Democrat backing.

Sen. John Boozman (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

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Markets

Bitcoin turns negative for 2026 as Trump's calming Greenland remarks fail to reverse slide

There was a modest bounce after the president said the U.S. had no intention of taking Greenland by force, but prices quickly resumed their decline.

trader (Pixabay)

Policy

Trump’s AI and crypto czar says crypto and traditional banks will become ‘one industry’

Sacks believes the divide between banking and crypto industries will disappear, with banks potentially seeing stablecoin issuance as a way to enter the market.

Crypto and Artificial Intelligence Czar David Sacks speaks at the White House (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Trump vows to make U.S. the crypto capital of the world to beat China

U.S. President Donald Trump said he supported efforts to legislate crypto because of the political support he received for doing so.

President Donald Trump at the White House (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Wall Street analyst defends Michael Saylor's Strategy after stock trades 64% below his lofty price target

Analyst Lance Vitanza noted the role of the company’s preferred equity in last week’s $2.1 billion bitcoin purchase.

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Policy

Massachusetts judge poised to tell Kalshi to stop taking sports bets in state

The prediction market platform Kalshi will be preliminarily ordered by a superior court justice in Massachusetts to halt its online sports business there.

Massachusetts great seal in the Senate chamber (courtesy General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

Policy

Trump's new CFTC chief Selig starts 'future-proof' initiative to champion crypto

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig signals an intent to set crypto policy into formal rules that would be hard to reverse down the road.

Mike Selig (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)