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

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

Markets

NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Sells NFT for $5.4M

Proceeds from the auction are going to the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Exiled whistleblower Edward Snowden

Markets

Hedge Fund Behind One River Digital to Invest Part of $5.6B Fund in Crypto: Report

Macro fund manager Brevan Howard plans to invest up to 1.5% of its main fund in cryptocurrencies, according to a story in Bloomberg.

Alan Howard, co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP

Finance

Much Wow: Slim Jim Has a Dogecoin Strategy. News of It Sends DOGE to a New ATH

The parent company of social media’s favorite meat stick gave DOGE its first-ever earnings call shoutout.

One of Slim Jim's DOGE memes shared on Twitter.

Finance

Coinbase, Before It Was Inevitable

Six archival posts that show the uncertainty of being a bitcoin startup in the early 2010s.

Coinbase staff in 2014, with founder Brian Armstrong at left.

Policy

NYPD's Crypto Sleuthing Is Powered by Chainalysis, Documents Show

The largest police force in the U.S. has beefed up rules governing who can trace crypto transactions. It’s been using Chainalysis software since 2019.

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Finance

Wall Street NFTs? New York Stock Exchange Apparently Has an NFT Strategy

The world’s largest bourse has minted a batch of “first trade” NFTs. But they’re not for sale, according to a source with knowledge.

A trader on the NYSE floor