Danny Nelson

Danny is CoinDesk's managing editor for Data & Tokens. He formerly ran investigations for the Tufts Daily. At CoinDesk, his beats include (but are not limited to): federal policy, regulation, securities law, exchanges, the Solana ecosystem, smart money doing dumb things, dumb money doing smart things and tungsten cubes. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL tokens, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.

Danny Nelson

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Finance

Banking App Current Picks Polkadot for Its DeFi Debut

The banking app with 3 million users will serve as a Polkadot validator as it plans deeper crypto moves.

Flowing River

Finance

BitGo Hires Former NY BitLicense Deputy as Chief Operating Officer

Cassie Lentchner, the crypto custodian’s new COO, joins as BitGo merges with Galaxy Digital.

BitGo COO Cassie Lentchner

Finance

DeFi Dashboard Zapper Raises $15M to Build On-Platform App Store

Framework Ventures led the round with Mark Cuban and Ashton Kutcher also signing checks.

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Policy

Upstate NY Bitcoin Miner Greenidge to Offset Rigs' Carbon Emissions

The power station that sparked controversy over a bitcoin mining expansion plan will also invest in renewable energy projects.

Greenidge Mining center

Markets

Ransomware Attacks Growing More Profitable: Chainalysis

Ransomware-linked addresses had at least $81 million in crypto flow in this year, the blockchain analytics firm said in a new report.

chainalysis, branding

Markets

FTX and Blockfolio Integrate With Circle, Add USDC Settlement Layer

The twin crypto trading hubs plugged into Circle’s payments and banking API Friday.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried

Finance

Renaissance Technologies Amassed $140M Position in Mining Stocks In Q1

The quantitative hedge fund placed heavy bets on Riot, Marathon and Canaan in early 2021.

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Finance

VanEck, Waiting for Verdict on Bitcoin ETF, Starts Taking Private Crypto Bets

The bitcoin fund launched last month and appears to have one $10 million investment so far, SEC filings show.

Gabor Gurbacs, director of digital-asset strategy at VanEck

Finance

DOJ, IRS Investigating Crypto Exchange Binance: Report

The world’s largest crypto exchange by volume is the subject of a U.S. money-laundering investigation, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao