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

Trump Becomes First Major Party Candidate to Accept Crypto Donations

The likely GOP flag bearer in the upcoming U.S. presidential election signaled his friendliness to crypto at a Mar-a-Lago event earlier this month.

Donald Trump at an NFT event at Mar-a-Lago on May 8, 2024. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Uniswap Labs Urges SEC to Drop Pending Enforcement Action in Wells Response

Uniswap’s lawyers say the protocol doesn’t meet the SEC’s own definition of an exchange.

Floatie in the form of a unicorn, the emblematic mythical creature featured in Uniswap's logo and marketing materials. (Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Gala Games Hacker Returns $23M in ETH; Founder Proposes 'Buy and Burn'

Gala investor DWF Labs also said that it had purchased 28 million GALA tokens "to alleviate market selling pressures."

Jason Brink, President of Blockchain, Gala Games, at Consensus (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Sleuth Ogle Proposes Security-Centric 'Glue' Blockchain

The upcoming layer-1 takes a hands-on approach to ensuring project security.

The Glue homepage (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Gaming Token Gala Stabilizes as Company Says Security Incident 'Contained'

Someone minted 5 billion GALA tokens and then sold them on decentralized exchange Uniswap.

(Alpha Rad/Unsplash)

Finance

Solana Meme Coin Factory Pump.Fun Compromised by 'Bonding Curve' Exploit

The exploiter may not be making any money from the attack.

Solana Hacker House in Miami (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Data Indexer Subsquid Plans to Launch SQD Token Friday

The decentralized indexing protocol has raised over $17 million lifetime from venture capital firms and community investors.

Peter Boshra/Unsplash

Finance

Insider at Solana's Cypher Protocol Admits to Stealing $300K

Core contributor Hoak blamed his actions on a "crippling gambling addiction."

A frontend developer for Cypher at mtnDAO. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

News Analysis

Trump’s Pro-Crypto Bluster at NFT Gala Lacked Policy Substance

At the Mar-a-Lago dinner, Donald Trump wooed a constituency Joe Biden has thoroughly snubbed. But the presidential candidate isn't exactly fluent in cryptocurrency policy.

Trump began courting crypto voters at a Mar-a-Lago dinner earlier this year. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)