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

Cuban, Palihapitiya Back NFT Marketplace SuperRare's $9M Series A

The NFT marketplace plans to build out its social features and experiment with presenting works in virtual reality.

Fire Castle, an AI-generated landscape available on SuperRare.

Finance

Nifty Gateway Pledges to Go 'Carbon Negative' Amid Criticism of NFTs

The Gemini-owned marketplace for non-fungible tokens says it’s buying carbon offsets despite a “double standard” for the IRL art world.

Nifty Gateway co-founders Duncan and Griffin Cock Foster

Markets

Kentucky Governor Signs Tax Breaks for Crypto Miners Into Law

The commonwealth wants to become a hub for energy-heavy businesses like crypto mining.

Theater sign in Lexington, Kentucky

Finance

Chainalysis Raises $100M, Underscoring Surging Demand for Blockchain Surveillance

The compliance-minded crypto data firm, is now valued at $2 billion after a Series D raise from Paradigm, Ribbit and others.

chainalysis, branding

Tech

Venture-Backed Ethereum Project Optimism Delays Launch

The throughput-boosting Layer 2 project said rushing its mainnet launch could have consequences for unprepared projects.

Optimism co-founder Jinglan Wang

Markets

Binance Adds Former FATF Officers to Regulatory Strategy Team

The former FATF officials will help steer Binance's global regulatory strategy, the exchange said.

binance

Finance

Caitlin Long’s Avanti Raises $37M Ahead of Crypto Bank Launch

The digital bank will put the extra cash toward meeting Wyoming regulators’ pre-launch capital requirements.

Avanti CEO Caitlin Long

Markets

Fidelity-Affiliated Fund Files for Bitcoin ETF

Peter Jubber, the managing director of Fidelity Digital Funds, serves as president of the trust.

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Markets

Crypto Exchange Coinsquare Ordered to Hand Thousands of Customers' Records to Canadian Tax Agency

Coinsquare estimates between 5 and 10 percent of customer records could be caught in the sweep.

Toronto As Office Vacancy Rates Projected to Double