Danny Nelson

Managing Editor - Data & Tokens

Danny was 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.

Latest from Danny Nelson

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.

Apr 30, 2020

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.

Apr 30, 2020

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.

Apr 28, 2020

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.

Apr 28, 2020

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.

Apr 28, 2020

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.

Apr 28, 2020

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.

Apr 27, 2020

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

Markets

Dole Plans to Use Blockchain Food Tracing in All Divisions by 2025

Pineapple and produce purveyor Dole wants to expand its use of blockchain to track goods from all three business divisions in just five years.

Apr 24, 2020

Markets

SEC Sues Dropil Founders for Fraud After $1.8M Token Sale

The SEC has charged three California residents with defrauding investors of $1.8 million through an unregistered token sale.

Apr 24, 2020

Finance

Italy's Leading Wire Service Is Using Ethereum to Thwart Copycats

Italy's ANSA newswire is trialing an ethereum-based system to track every article it publishes in an effort to prevent impersonators from publishing fake news under its banner.

Apr 22, 2020

ANSA’s blockchain system rolled out earlier this year, but still only accounts for about 80 percent of articles published to its own site. Ultimately, its backers hope it can be used across the internet. (Credit: praszkiewicz / Shutterstock)