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.

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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.

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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

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