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

When Could Bitcoin Break Out to New Highs? Watch Out for Gold

The tape shows a relay between gold and bitcoin: when the metal runs, BTC rests; and when gold stalls, BTC tends to go.

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

Policy

Trump Makes Travis Hill Pick Official as Choice to Run FDIC

Travis Hill has already been leading the FDIC, but President Donald Trump's nomination puts him up for the banking regulator's chairmanship.

Incoming FDIC chairman Travis Hill

Policy

U.S. Senate Hearing on Crypto Taxes Reveals Headaches for Both Industry and IRS

A top Coinbase tax executive suggested the IRS isn't ready for the flood of tax reporting about to come in, even as many crypto rules still need to be written.

IRS (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bullish Launches U.S. Spot Crypto Trading Following NYDFS Approval

Now live in 20 states, Bullish expands into U.S. markets as institutional appetite for crypto strengthens.

Crypto exchange Bullish goes public on the New York Stock Exchange. (Aoyon Ashraf/Modified by CoinDesk))

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Markets

Legacy Users ‘Not Forgotten’ as OpenSea Balances Newcomers, OGs Ahead of Token Launch: CMO Hollander

In an interview with CoinDesk, OpenSea’s Adam Hollander shares about the platform's revamp plans.

OpenSea platform (OpenSea)

Finance

SBI Crypto Reportedly Hit by $21M Hack With Suspected DPRK Links

SBI Crypto, a subsidiary of Japan’s SBI Group, has reportedly suffered a $21 million exploit with blockchain sleuths pointing to possible ties with North Korean hackers.

Lazarus Group, a cybercrime organization run by the North Korean government, may have links to this week's exploit of Euler Finance. (Micha Brandli/Unsplash)

Tech

The Protocol: Solana’s Firedancer Proposes Uncapping Block Compute-Unit Limit

Also: Denials of Bitcoin Hard Fork, UN Experiments With Blockchain, and Gate Rolls Out Token Launcher.

Solana (SOL) Logo

Finance

Aleo and Paxos Labs Launch Privacy-Focused Dollar Stablecoin Aimed at Institutions

The USAD token encrypts transaction data end-to-end, aiming to enable private, programmable digital dollars.

Paxos Labs co-founder Bhau Kotecha (Paxos Labs)

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Finance

MEXC Ventures Raises Ethena Investment to $66M

The new investment builds on previous purchases of ENA and USDe, its synthetic stablecoin that tracks the value of the dollar without traditional reserves.

Seed Funding Investment coins in a jar (Towfiqu barbhuiya/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

White House Withdraws Pro-Crypto Brian Quintenz's Name From CFTC Chair Nomination

Gemini's co-founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss opposed Quintenz's nomination.

Brian Quintenz (Senate Agriculture Committee, screen capture)