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

Bitcoin Life Insurer Meanwhile Raises $82M to Scale Savings, Retirement in BTC

With fresh capital from Bain Capital Crypto, Haun Ventures and others, Meanwhile eyes global growth in BTC life insurance market.

Meanwhile co-founder and CEO Zachary Townsend on CoinDesk TV (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Rally Fueled by Perfect Macro Storm; Ether, DOGE, BNB Surge

Bitcoin's breakout suggests further upside above $130,000, but a pullback to $118,000 remain possible, Deribit's CCO said.

Storm clouds gather. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Cathie Wood's ARK Bets on Tokenization With a Stake in BlackRock-Backed Securitize

The ARK Venture Fund invested around $10 million in the tokenization specialist, according to CoinDesk's calculation.

Ark Invest's Cathie Woods (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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

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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)

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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)