Danny Nelson

Danny was 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.

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Finance

Robinhood Rival Futu Plans to Offer Crypto Trading in US, Singapore, Hong Kong

With its number of new users and revenue surging, the Chinese brokerage app said it has begun applying for crypto-related licenses.

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Finance

Flux Protocol Raises $10.3M Seed Round to Build DeFi Infrastructure on NEAR

Distributed Global, Coinbase Ventures and others are betting the data protocol can help lending applications attract users to NEAR.

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Finance

Diddy, Haddish, Durant Revealed as Investors in Crypto-Powered Banking App Eco

The finance app’s $26 million March round scored investments from athletes, A-listers and entertainers.

Sean "Diddy" Combs attends the Million Dollar Bowl at The Dome Miami, Feb. 3, 2020.

Finance

Arweave-Based ‘Permanent Dropbox’ Raises $1.6M Seed Round

The decentralized file storage startup is betting consumers will latch onto a novel pricing model.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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