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.

Danny Nelson

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Markets

Mark Cuban Backs Crypto Data Startup Esprezzo in $2M Funding Round

Arrington Capital and CMS Holdings also invested in the three-year-old on-chain automation startup.

Add Polygon to the list of crypto and DeFi startups Cuban has backed so far.

Markets

Robinhood Files Confidentially for IPO: Report

The millennial-friendly investments platform will seek a listing on Nasdaq, according to Bloomberg.

Robinhood has been a retail trading darling of the pandemic era.

Markets

Grayscale's Sonnenshein Addresses GBTC's Collapsing Premium

Sonnenshein thinks U.S. regulators aren't ready to approve a bitcoin ETF yet.

Grayscale Investments CEO Michael Sonnenshein

Markets

Korean Government Approves Crypto AML Rule Set to Come Online Thursday

Crypto companies have until September to register with financial regulators.

The South Korean Financial Services Commission is extending a ban on short-selling after last week's GameStop share price pump.

Markets

Former SEC Chief Clayton to Chair Investment Giant Apollo

Clayton was named chair after longtime Apollo chief Leon Black unexpectedly called it quits Monday.

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton

Markets

BIS Researchers Grapple With Implications of Interoperable CBDCs

Central bank digital currencies would largely benefit countries if they work together to eliminate traditional banking frictions, a research note said.

globeshadow

Finance

Even NYC's Highfalutin Guggenheim Museum Is Looking at NFTs, Job Posting Suggests

A call for MBA interns asks: "How will blockchain and crypto currency [sic] change how a museum defines its collection strategy?"

New York's Guggenheim Museum

Finance

Lindsay Lohan Partners With Justin Sun to Release NFTs on Tron

The auction comes during the technology’s seemingly overnight transformation into a fascination of the investing world.

Lindsay Lohan

Finance

Ether Cards Banks $3.7M in Presale of ‘Supercharged’ NFTs

“What you can do right now with NFTs is you can buy, you can sell and you can hold. And I think we can do better than that.”

Ether Cards