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.

Danny Nelson

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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

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