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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Tech

Raft Suffers $3.3M Exploit That Drove Down Stablecoin 50%, but Hacker Likely Lost Money on Attack

Raft's R stablecoin lost its dollar peg, dropping as much as 50% in the immediate aftermath of the exploit.

hacker (Cybercrime / Getty Images)

Finance

BlackRock's Ethereum ETF Plan Is Confirmed in Nasdaq Filing

The world's largest asset manager has already made waves by seeking to list a bitcoin ETF

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Policy

SBF Trial: The Last Day of Summer Camp

Sam Bankman-Fried's trial ended, in the words of his defense attorney, "gradually, then suddenly."

SBF Trial Newsletter Graphic

Policy

Binance Has No Real Argument for Dismissing SEC Suit, Regulator Says

The SEC pushed back against Binance's motion to dismiss its lawsuit in a new filing.

SEC Enforcement Director Gurbir Grewal (right) (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Policy

U.S. SEC Said to Open Talks with Grayscale on Spot Bitcoin ETF Push

Representatives of the company are answering questions from two divisions of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the wake of Grayscale's court win over the agency.

Chair Gary Gensler's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is said to be in new talks with CEO Michael Sonnenshein's Grayscale Investments over its spot bitcoin ETF application. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

BTC Price Pushes Towards $36K Ahead of 2023's Last Approval Period for Bitcoin ETFs

Analysts at Bloomberg predict that if a spot bitcoin ETF is not approved in this period, there’s still a 90% chance for approval by Jan. 10.

Chair Gary Gensler's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is weighing Hashdex's ETF application, which analysts suggest could have a leg up because of its novel approach.  (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

BIS Researchers Say Stablecoins Are Failing to Live Up to Promise

For stablecoins to be able to be used as a means of exchange they should be able to maintain their value during the day, economists at the Bank for International Settlements said.

Thumbs down (Markus Spiske / Unsplash)

Policy

UK’s Tough Crypto Regulator FCA Won’t Go Easy on Stablecoins, Official Says

The Financial Conduct Authority on Monday published a discussion paper with proposals for a stablecoin regime.

Matthew Long, director of payments and digital assets at the FCA. (FCA)

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Policy

U.S. Consumer Finance Watchdog Wants to Oversee Major Tech, Some Crypto Payments

A proposed rule would let the CFPB supervise nonbank payment providers and transactions between people, including some crypto transactions.

CFPB office in Washington, D.C. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Policy

How the Crypto Industry Responded to the IRS Proposed Broker Rule

Some people are concerned about privacy. Some about data. And some about…Richard Heart?

U.S. Treasury Building (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)