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

US Military Is Falling Behind China, Russia in Blockchain Arms Race: IBM, Accenture

The U.S. Department of Defense can’t afford to lose the global military blockchain race to Russia and China, warns a new private sector whitepaper.

The new U.S. Space Force is one branch of the military that could benefit from blockchain usage, a new think tank report says. (Credit: United Launch Alliance / U.S. Air Force)

Markets

DTCC Considers DLT Use in Securities Trading With 2 New Studies

DTCC, the plumber to capital markets’ quadrillion-dollar pipes, is wondering if DLT can boost securities processing

DTCC's Jennifer Peve, image from CoinDesk archives

Markets

Company That Sued FTX and Ripple Now Sets Its Sights on BitMEX

BMA LLC, which two weeks ago sued Ripple, has now accused crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX of orchestrating the largest financial crime in U.S. history.

Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes

Markets

Crypto.com Rolls Out Visa Card to 31 European Nations

Crypto.com is now shipping its crypto-to-fiat card, the MCO Visa, across the European Union.

Kris Marszalek, CEO of Crypto.com

Markets

First State-Owned Entity Joins Libra Association

Temasek, one of Singapore’s two state-owned investment vehicles, is among the latest firms to join the Libra Association, the consortium Facebook set up to create a global digital currency.

Temasek's addition to the Libra Association could explain the role the Singapore dollar played in both the original stablecoin basket and the new multi-coin vision. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Markets

IOV Labs Takes on Lightning Network With New Light Client

IOV Labs, which builds platforms secured by bitcoin’s hash rate, launched Wednesday a light client for the Lumino Payments Network, its smart contract-compatible rival to the lightning network

Gabriel Kurman (Credit: IOV Labs)

Markets

Fund Manager Got NY BitLicense 11 Months After Hiring Its Architect

Benjamin Lawsky, the former regulator who created New York’s BitLicense in 2015, joined a bitcoin fund manager nearly a year before it applied for, and received, the license.

(Credit: New America/Flickr)

Finance

CipherTrace Wants to Guide Central Banks on Their Digital Currency Projects

The blockchain analytics firm is launching an initiative to pitch itself to central banks as both a tech partner and a guiding influence on future digital currency projects.

CipherTrace Chief Financial Analyst John Jefferies (Credit: CipherTrace)

Markets

Binance.US Launches OTC Trading Desk for Large Trades

Binance US has launched an OTC trading portal for major orders above $10,000

Binance.US CEO Catherine Coley

Finance

Hedge Fund Pioneer Paul Tudor Jones Says He Holds 1%-2% of Assets in Bitcoin

"We’re watching the birthing of a store of value, and whether that succeeds or not only time will tell," he told CNBC.

The Tudor double rose (Credit: National Museum of American History)