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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Policy

US Senate Staffers Float Blockchain Voting if Chamber Goes Remote

U.S. Senate staffers, hunting for tech to keep their chamber legislating through crises, floated blockchain voting in an April 30 continuity of Senate memo.

US Capitol (Shutterstock)

Markets

Overstock Wants to Trade Traditional Stocks on tZERO Crypto App

tZERO Crypto wants to become the first platform approved to trade crypto, digital securities and traditional stocks on a single app.

tzero

Markets

Binance, Brock Pierce Donate $1M to Puerto Rico's COVID-19 Fight

Brock Pierce’s nonprofit and Binance say they are buying $1 million in personal protective equipment to help fight coronavirus in Puerto Rico.

(Credit: Florida National Guard)

Finance

Alibaba Patents Blockchain System That Spots Music Copycats

The e-commerce giant has patented a blockchain-based means of vetting the originality of songs.

Joseph Tsai, executive vice chairman (Credit: Cody Glenn / Flickr)

Finance

Blockstack Ran on Token Sales in 2019, Says Latest SEC Filing

Blockstack disclosed that its $23 million revenue in 2019 came almost entirely from Stacks token sales.

Blockstack PBC CEO Muneeb Ali

Markets

Crypto Advocate Brian Quintenz Will Step Down From CFTC Role by October

CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz, who sponsored the Technology Advisory Committee and advocated for self regulation in the crypto industry, will leave his post by late October.

CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz

Markets

Blockstack Pledges to Enforce Patents for 'Defensive Purposes' Only

Blockstack, the startup building a decentralized backbone for Web 3.0, is open-sourcing its two patents – kinda.

Blockstack co-founder Muneeb Ali speaks at Consensus 2017. (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

CipherTrace’s New Crypto Tracing Tool Is Meant for Banks

CipherTrace is rolling out a toolkit to help banks flag accounts and crypto-related transactions that may be suspicious.

CipherTrace’s new crypto tracing tool will sort through bank routing and account numbers to find transactions which might be risky to financial institutions. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Markets

World Economic Forum Shares Roadmap for Deploying Blockchains in Real World

As COVID-19 disrupts global supply chains, the WEF has published a roadmap for businesses to deploy blockchains as a solution.

The World Economic Forum is hoping to aid supply chain businesses with its new roadmap for deploying blockchain, citing tracking medical supplies as one potential use case. (Credit: Rumir / Shutterstock)

Markets

US Regulator Clears Security Token Trading System to Launch

North Capital received regulatory approval to launch an alternate trading system for security tokens.

Salt Lake City-based North Capital received approval for its security token ATS in March. (Credit: Shutterstock)