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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Policy

New Hampshire snuffs out trailblazing state-government bitcoin bond effort

At its last stage for government approval, the state's executive council rejected the bond project 3-2.

New Hampshire State House (Nils Huenerfuerst/Unsplash)

Finance

Grayscale's CFO exits after 7 years with crypto asset manager

Edward McGee stepped down after seven years, months after distribution chief John Hoffman left for Ondo Finance.

The Grayscale Solana Trust was launched in 2021 as the asset managers 16th product.

Policy

With SEC fight over, Coinbase's top legal exec Grewal moves on, and others reassigned

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal will depart the exchange, though he'll continue as an adviser, he said Thursday.

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Policy

Newest version of crypto Clarity Act may drop as soon as next week, sources say

After a long stretch without breakthroughs in the crypto market structure bill, insiders say a new draft may emerge in a final push for late-July action — though it still lacks bipartisan buy-in.

U.S. Capitol Building (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Finance

Over $7.2 billion have migrated from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP as Mantle joins exodus

Migrations to Chainlink CCIP so far include Kelp and Lombard, both of which brought over $1 billion, as well as Solv Protocol, Virtuals, Re and Kraken’s tokenized assets.

People migrating (Sébastien Goldberg/Unsplash)

Markets

Polymarket bets on U.S. marketing blitz to win back trust after 4-year ban: Report

The prediction market's head of U.S. operations says the business is taking steps to legitimize itself after years of legal scrutiny.

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Tech

Live markets: Bitcoin drops to $62,000 as oil and bond yields surge on collapse of Iran ceasefire

Hedge funds have turned the most bearish on the yen since 2007, boosting bets on further losses to nearly 138,000 contracts as of June 30.

A U.S. fighter jet comes in to touch down on an aircraft carrier

Markets

BlackRock-backed Securitize slides 40% after SPAC debut despite tokenization boom

The decline fits into a pattern of recently-public digital asset companies sliding after debut, Arca's Jeff Dorman said.

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo at ETHConf 2026 (Margaux Nijkerk/ CoinDesk)

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Policy

U.S. SEC to propose crypto rule as soon as this month to ease startups, fundraising

A newly updated agenda from the securities regulator shows so-called Reg Crypto high on its near-term list.

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Bitcoin's U.S. reserve still a work-in-progress as federal agencies hash it out

The White House says it's still evaluating the "best structure" for the federal fund to hold bitcoin as a long-term reserve and a separate stockpile of other crypto assets.

The latest crypto poll seeks to make the case that some voters have single-issue love for crypto as the race for the White House and Congress near an end. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)