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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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)

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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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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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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)

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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)

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NYDFS Fines Stablecoin Issuer Paxos $26.5M for Compliance Failures Tied to Binance’s BUSD

In addition to the fine, Paxos agreed to invest another $22 million into beefing up its compliance program.

Consensus 2025: Adrienne A. Harris

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ProShares Debuts 'Ultra CRCL' ETF, Letting Traders Double Down on Circle Stock

The ETF is the first to offer amplified exposure to Circle, whose stock price has skyrocketed 134% since the company’s debut in June.

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Circle Speaks at Hong Kong Fintech Week in 2024 (HK Fintech Week)

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Chainlink Launches LINK Reserve to Fuel Network Growth

The reserve is funded by offchain and onchain revenue, which is automatically converted into LINK via mechanism called Payment Abstraction.

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Roman Storm Guilty of Unlicensed Money Transmitting Conspiracy in Partial Verdict

After two Allen charges and four days of deliberation, a New York jury could not reach a unanimous agreement on the conspiracy to commit money laundering charge or the sanctions evasion charge.

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