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

Lightweight Mina Blockchain Raises $18.7M in CoinList Token Sale

The project had designated 7.5% of all available MINA for the sale. It was gone in four hours.

O(1) Labs staffers

Policy

New York Bill Would Freeze Bitcoin Miners Pending Environmental Review

The new legislation seeks to counter an industry that critics blast as detrimental to New York’s decarbonization goals.

Inside the New York State Capitol in Albany, N.Y.

Finance

Multicoin Raises $100M for New Crypto Venture Fund

The Texas-based crypto investment firm has lined up another nine-figure venture fund in its search for explosive blockchain startups.

Multicoin Capital managing partner Tushar Jain (center) speaks at Consensus 2019.

Finance

S&P Goes Live With Bitcoin, Ethereum Crypto Indexes

The financial data giant has launched its first three crypto index products.

The S&P Bitcoin Index went live on Monday.

Finance

Bitstamp to ‘Triple’ US Team as Number of New Customers Surges

The exchange will bolster its customer support and American headcount as U.S. crypto under management eclipses $1.1 billion.

Bitstamp CEO and founder Nejc Kodrič

Finance

EBay CEO Hints at Crypto Payments, NFT Sales

But don’t hold your breath: “We have no immediate plans,” a spokesperson said of crypto payments following Jamie Iannone’s appearance on CNBC.

Ebay Packing Tape

Finance

Soccer Player Ifunanyachi Achara the Latest Sports Pro to Take Salary in Bitcoin

The Nigeria-born Toronto FC forward sends some of his bitcoin home to help his family avoid surging inflation rates in Africa’s largest economy.

MLS player Ifunanyachi Achara,

Finance

Coinbase Debuts 'Buy With PayPal' Feature (but Read the Fine Print)

The integration could lead to massive, and avoidable, costs for users who don’t pay attention to Coinbase’s fee schedule.

Coinbase Global Debuts Initial Public Offering At Nasdaq MarketSite

Finance

Notional Raises $10M to Grow DeFi Lending Protocol With ‘Real World’ Potential

The Ethereum-based lending startup is seeing users take out crypto loans for more than just yield farming.

Jeff Wu (left) and Teddy Woodward (right), co-founders of Notional Finance