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Danny Nelson

Managing Editor - Data & Tokens

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

Crypto Winter-Era Seed Startups Mostly Persist Despite Tumult and Crisis

But fundraising difficulties and product-market-fit issues may imperil their future, according to a report from Lattice VC.

Oct 1, 2024

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Policy

Mango Markets Mulls CFTC Settlement Over Crypto Trading Violations

The legal pain train continues for Solana's once-mighty crypto derivatives exchange.

Sep 23, 2024

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission would be granted far-reaching authority over crypto trading and regulation in a new Senate bill. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Tech

Jump's 'Frankendancer' Validator Client Is Live on Solana Mainnet

The ramshackle validator client is a prelude to Jump's highly anticipated Firedancer software.

Sep 20, 2024

Jump Chief Science Officer Kevin Bowers (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

SocGen's Crypto Unit Takes Euro Stablecoin to Solana After Flopping on Ethereum

The French financial services firm is betting on Solana's faster and cheaper attributes.

Sep 20, 2024

Societe Generale (Shutterstock)

Markets

Solana Unveils Details of Second Crypto Phone 'Seeker'

Seeker will launch in 2025.

Sep 19, 2024

Solana's next phone (Solana Foundation)

Finance

Multicoin Led $10M Raise for Crypto-Incentivized Internet Infrastructure Network Pipe

The company behind Pipe is trying to take on internet giants like Cloudflare and Akamai, by giving crypto incentives to those hosting the servers.

Sep 16, 2024

Multicoin led a $10 million round for Pipe, a proposed "content delivery network" that uses tokens to incentivize people hosting internet infrastructure. (Shutterstock)

Finance

'Blurt' Developer Thinks Crypto Makes for Better Donations to Twitch Streamers

Inside life at the mtnDAO hacker house.

Sep 6, 2024

T.J. Littlejohn is a longtime mtnDAO attendee (Danny Nelson)

Finance

Legacy Payment Processors Charge Adult Sites a Fortune; MyPeach.AI Found a Crypto Solution

Adult entertainment websites usually pay credit card companies through the nose. MyPeach.AI has found a stablecoin-powered workaround.

Sep 6, 2024

Crass Kitty at mtnDAO (Danny Nelson)

Finance

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Promises Changes, Noting It's Become Easier for 'Criminals to Abuse Our Platform'

"Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy," he wrote on Telegram.

Sep 6, 2024

Telegram app on smartphone (Shutterstock)

News Analysis

A Crypto Project's Weird Marketing 'Hack' Riffed on Infamous 1987 Chicago TV Hijacking

Remember the Max Headroom incident? NEAR seems to.

Sep 5, 2024

NEAR's 'HiJack' character (NEAR)
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