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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Markets

Numerai Hedge Fund Offers $50M in NMR Tokens for Fresh Stock Market 'Signals'

Numerai said its new signals monetization system will take any data set, from any source.

Richard Craib, Numerai's founder, speaks in New York City, April 2019.

Markets

OECD Preparing Crypto Tax Reporting Framework for World's Largest Economies

The tax framework may address questions surrounding wallet providers and income not derived from crypto sales.

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Finance

Grayscale’s Ethereum Trust Granted SEC Reporting Company Status

Institutional bitcoin investors are looking at "how else they can diversify within the asset class," said Michael Sonnenshein.

Grayscale Investments CEO Michael Sonnenshein

Markets

Robinhood Traders, Including Bitcoin Holders, Left in the Lurch Following Theft: Report

The popular personal investing platform did not do enough to help targeted customers, victims claim.

Robinhood

Markets

US Homeland Security Funds Anti-Forgery Blockchain Projects in Latest R&D Round

The five companies will use DLT in food tracing, essential worker licensure, overhauling the Social Security Number system and tracking e-commerce.

A CBP officer inspects a shipment of flowers entering the U.S.

Tech

DOJ Warns of Possible 'Oncoming Storm' in Report Detailing Dangers of Terrorist Use of Crypto

The Department of Justice has released a ‘first of its kind’ framework for policing the cryptocurrency space.

Attorney General William Barr

Markets

Riot Buys 2,500 More Bitmain Miners in Latest Fleet Expansion

The publicly traded bitcoin miner aims to quadruple its current hashrate by mid-2021.

A crypto mining farm.

Markets

On-Chain Real Estate Startup Propy Raised $1.2M in Draper-Backed Round

The real estate digitization platform aims to raise $1.7 million.

Real estate

Markets

Bill to Give Blockchain Records Legal Clout Reintroduced in US House

Rep. Soto and Rep. Schweikert call for recognizing blockchain signatures as legal instruments in their new bill.

Rep. David Schweikert