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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Policy

IRS Seeks Names of Circle Customers Transacting Over $20K in Crypto

A federal court is supporting a request from the IRS to obtain the records of Circle customers, the Department of Justice said Thursday.

Circle founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire

Finance

Morgan Stanley Approves Bitcoin Exposure for Handful of Mutual Funds

The megabank is positioning itself to take an active role across the bitcoin markets.

morgan stanley

Finance

Zora Gets In on NFT Funding Craze With $8M Raise, SEC Documents Show

It’s the latest NFT marketplace investors are betting on as the mainstream gateway to crypto.

The homepage of the Zora NFT marketplace on March 31, 2021.

Policy

DeepDotWeb Operator Pleads Guilty to Laundering $8.4M in Bitcoin Kickbacks

Tal Prihar admitted to taking bitcoin payments from darknet marketplaces in exchange for referral links.

DOJ

Finance

BlackRock Has Begun Trading Bitcoin Futures

BlackRock held $6.5 million in CME bitcoin futures earlier this year with an appreciation of $360,000, new SEC filings show.

BlackRock headquarters

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Leads $4.4M Round in DeFi's Element Finance

Element Finance, which is building a yield-maximizing marketplace for crypto interest rates, has landed some prominent backers.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) co-founder Marc Andreessen

Finance

'NBA Top Shot' Data Site Raises $1.6M to Bring Visibility to Your NFT Bags

Dapper Labs’ hyper-popular digital trading cards are fostering a side economy dedicated to providing market data to the ballooning user base.

2020 NBA Finals

Markets

Digital Yuan Won’t Give China ‘First-Mover Advantage’ With CBDCs, BIS Chief Says

"Digital nature alone" will not be enough to give any one CBDC an edge as an international reserve asset, the BIS general manager asserts.

Agustin Carstens

Finance

NFL Player Taylor Rapp Is Launching an NFT to Fight Anti-Asian Hate

“I really hope the NFL sees this and the important message that is behind it in why I'm actually doing it,” Rapp said.

Football player Taylor Rapp at the 2019 NFL Combine

Finance

Michael Jordan Joins $305M Investment in Firm Behind NBA Top Shot

Dapper Labs' buzzy NFT platform has generated over $500 million in sales since launch.

NBA legend Michael Jordan