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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Markets

Filecoin Rises 2% After Breaking Through Resistance at $2.37

The token has support at the $2.31 level.

FIL Surges 2% to $2.42 Breaking Key Resistance Amid Institutional Buying and Trade Tensions

Tech

Bee Maps Raises $32M to Scale Solana-Powered Decentralized Mapping Network

The fresh capital will be used to distribute more devices, enhance AI models that process and update map features, and boost contributor incentives, Bee said.

Bee device (Hivemapper)

Policy

Roman Storm's Attorneys Call for Acquittal in Tornado Cash Case

Storm's attorneys filed standard post-trial motions asking a federal judge to kick out a guilty verdict and acquit him of all three charges he faced during his trial in Manhattan this summer.

Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm outside the Manhattan courthouse where he is being tried for criminal money laundering (CoinDesk/Cheyenne Ligon)

Tech

BTCFi’s Big Problem: 77% of Bitcoin Holders Haven’t Even Tried It, Says Survey

A new GoMining survey shows Bitcoin finance has a marketing and trust problem — despite packed conferences and venture funding, most holders are staying away.

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News Analysis

State of Crypto: What Happens to Crypto if Government Shutdown Lingers

A short-term shutdown probably won't hurt crypto's efforts in D.C. much. A long-lasting one? That's less clear.

U.S. Congress (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Tether Looking to Launch Tokenized Gold Treasury Firm With Antalpha Raising $200M: Report

The report comes after Antalpha, a key lender of mining hardware firm Bitmain, launched lending and infrastructure tools for Tether Gold (XAUT).

Close-up of stacked gold bars. (Jingming Pan/Unsplash)

Markets

LINK Shifts Momentum as Stablecoin Chain Plasma Integrates Chainlink Services

Chainlink will provide oracle, cross-chain and data services to the Plasma network to support stablecoin use cases.

Chainlink (LINK) price (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

AAVE Breaks Resistance as DeFi Market Hits Record $219B Size

The native token of the largest DeFi lending protocol is showing strong momentum despite short-term profit taking above $290.

"AAVE Surges 2% on Institutional Volume Spike, Breaks Key Resistance Amid Consolidation"

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News Analysis

IRS Guidance Limited in Scope but Good News for Crypto Treasury Firms

Digital asset treasury companies won't have to pay taxes on their crypto holdings under new interim guidance.

IRS (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

VanEck Registers Lido Staked Ethereum ETF Trust in Delaware, Eyes SEC Approval

Lido is up more than 3% over the past 24 hours.

(VanEck)