As Executive Editor, Marc Hochstein oversees Layer 2, CoinDesk's magazine of ideas. Layer 2 includes in-depth feature and investigative articles, a diverse range of informed opinions and deep-dive research reports. He also sets CoinDesk's ethics and standards policies and spearheads our internal editorial training efforts.

Marc is a veteran journalist with more than 25 years' experience, including 17 years at the trade publication American Banker, the last three as editor-in-chief, where he was responsible for some of the earliest mainstream news coverage of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Marc holds BTC above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000; marginal amounts of ETH, XMR and ZEC; an Urbit planet (~fodrex-malmev); two ENS domain names (MarcHochstein.eth and MarcusHNYC.eth); and two NFTs from the metal band Gwar.

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