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

Can Prediction Market Boom Continue After Election? This Crypto Team Has a Plan

Hedgehog Markets, which runs on the Solana blockchain, wants to do for prediction markets what Pump.fun did for meme coins: Let anyone roll their own.

Hedgehog Markets CEO Kyle DiPeppe (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Trump Releases Fourth Drop of His NFT Trading Cards

The new collection will offer buyers a piece of the candidate’s suit from his debate with President Joe Biden.

Donald J. Trump at a rally (Gerd Altmann, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

This 'Degenerate' Crypto-Culture Publication is Betting on Print

Newspapers are dead. Can Superbasedd make it with a monthly glossy?

Superbasedd's founding team (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Crypto Airdrops Ban U.S. Users, but Americans Are Claiming Tokens Anyway

Eigen Labs helped its employees access lucrative airdrops. Its U.S. employees appear to have helped themselves to tokens U.S. residents were banned from claiming.

(Павел Котов/Wikimedia Commons)

Policy

Solana's Former Top Decentralized Crypto Exchange Faces SEC Securities Violations

Mango Markets' governing body is looking to offer a settlement to the SEC.

(Desirae Hayes-Vitor/Unsplash)

Policy

Crypto's Bet on Election Betting Expands to Solana

Perpetuals trading hub Drift protocol is adding a Polymarket-style prediction market – with some DeFi twists.

Donald Trump (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Tech

Top Crypto Startup Drove Other Projects' Airdrops to Its Employees

Eigen Labs circulated a list of team members' wallet addresses to EigenLayer ecosystem projects that were preparing to issue tokens. Some teams asked for it. At least one didn't.

EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan at ETHDenver 2024 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

As Restaking Takes Shape on Solana, Ethereum's Renzo Jumps in With 'ezSOL'

Liquid restaking protocol Renzo, known for its work on Ethereum-based projects like EigenLayer and Symbiotic, disclosed Wednesday that it's preparing a new liquid staking token focused on the Solana-focused restaking platform now under development by developer Jito Labs.

Renzo founding contributor Lucas Kozinski (Renzo)

Finance

Crypto Bank Anchorage Adds Custody for Solana-Based Tokens

"We're very responsive to what our clients ask for," CEO Nathan McCauley said.

Anchorage co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley. (CoinDesk)

Tech

Crypto VC Paradigm Invests in MetaDAO as Prediction Markets Boom

MetaDAO, a Solana experiment in governance by "futarchy," raised a total of $2.2 million to fund operations.

Sporting a black hoodie, the pseudonymous coder known as Proph3t works in a Salt Lake City hacker house. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)