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.

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Finance

JPMorgan to Let Clients Invest in Bitcoin Fund for First Time: Sources

The JPMorgan bitcoin fund could roll out as soon as this summer with NYDIG as the fund’s custody provider.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon

Policy

SEC Begins Official Review of Kryptoin Bitcoin ETF Application

The U.S. regulator is now weighing three different bitcoin ETF bids.

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler

Markets

Bitwise’s Flagship Fund Seeks SEC Reporting Status

If it succeeds, Bitwise would join Grayscale as the only crypto fund issuers to register their products as a public reporting company.

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan

Finance

Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Fund Draws $29.4M in 2 Weeks, Filings Show

Morgan Stanley’s new bitcoin product is already one of the largest funds of its kind by investor count.

Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman

Finance

BitGo Will Custody Crypto for US Marshals Service in $4.5M Deal

The custodian will manage potentially tens of millions of dollars in seized cryptocurrencies, according to documents published Wednesday.

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Finance

NFT Issuer Doublejump.Tokyo Ditches Ethereum for Flow Blockchain

The digital trading card company says it got fed up after three years of scaling woes on the world computer.

Imagery from the My Crypto Heroes NFT game

Finance

Coinbase Earmarks 10% of Resources to Funding Staff-Pitched Moonshots

The publicly traded crypto exchange is launching an internal incubator program to find the Next Big Thing.

Coinbase Global Debuts Initial Public Offering At Nasdaq MarketSite

Tech

Ampleforth Is Giving Governance Tokens to Every Wallet That Ever Held AMPL

Project leads estimate over 75,000 users will be eligible to claim the new FORTH governance token.

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Finance

Ex-CFTC Chair Chris Giancarlo Joins BlockFi Board of Directors

The former top U.S. commodities regulator has joined BlockFi’s board of directors, the crypto lender announced Tuesday.

Christopher Giancarlo