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

SEC Charges Three With Stealing $11.4M Through Token Backed by Actor Steven Seagal

The Bitcoiin2Gen trio allegedly bilked investors through false statements and celebrity crypto endorsements.

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Markets

Coinbase Taps Nasdaq for Direct Listing: Report

The crypto exchange will reportedly join Nasdaq's tech-heavy lineup.

Nasdaq

Policy

FinCEN's Wallet Rule Aims to Close Crypto-Cash Reporting Gap, Official Says

FinCEN Deputy Director Michael Mosier encouraged commenters to provide practical, technical feedback on the rule.

Treasury Secretary
Steven T. Mnuchin

Markets

Robinhood Raises $3.4B Amid Growth Surge

The round is the stock trading app's largest raise ever.

Robinhood

Markets

Crypto Lender BlockFi Registers Bitcoin Trust With SEC

BlockFi is the latest firm to go up against Grayscale's behemoth bitcoin trust.

BlockFi CEO Zac Prince

Markets

MicroStrategy May Get Creative to Make Future Bitcoin Buys: CEO

The business intelligence company already has 70,784 bitcoins.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor

Markets

US Government Takes Aim at NetWalker Ransomware Attacks

Prosecutors indicted an alleged NetWalker affiliate and coordinated the takedown of darkweb resources.

netwalker site seized

Markets

Retail Traders Sue Robinhood Over Meme Stock Restrictions

GameStop, which had been soaring for days on short squeezing and mass speculation, began tumbling after the major retail trading hub implemented the hold.

Robinhood

Markets

OCC Halts Fair Access Banking Rule

The rule would have prohibited U.S. banks from denying services based on ideological factors.

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