Danny Nelson

Managing Editor - Data & Tokens

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.

Latest from Danny Nelson

Markets

Peer-to-Peer Crypto Exchange Paxful Now Lets You Trade Bitcoin for Gold

Paxful's users can now directly trade bitcoin for gold through a new service offered by the peer-to-peer exchange.

Apr 7, 2020

Markets

World Economic Forum Looks to Blockchain for Supply Chain Woes

The World Economic Forum said Monday that blockchain and digitization can help supply chains survive crises like COVID-19.

Apr 7, 2020

Businesses "usually have little to no knowledge of suppliers further up the [supply] chain,” wrote the WEF contributors. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Markets

Nestlé Partners With Rainforest Alliance to Trace Coffee Beans

Nestlé has added its Zoégas coffee brand to the IBM Food Trust blockchain and partnered with the Rainforest Alliance to bolster the coffee’s data traceability.

Apr 6, 2020

IBM Food Trust will get part of Zoegas' data from the sustainable product certification nonprofit the Rainforest Alliance and the rest from Nestlé. (Credit: Susanne Nilsson/Flickr)

Markets

BIS Researchers Say Coronavirus Could Spur Central Banks to Adopt Digital Payments

BIS researchers think COVID-19 may accelerate the adoption of digital payments and sharpen the debate over central bank digital currencies.

Apr 3, 2020

"Perceptions that cash could spread pathogens may change payment behaviour by users and firms,” the researchers said. (Credit: Myra Thompson / Shutterstock)

Markets

SEC Charges 2 With Fraudulent Water-Backed Token Sale

The SEC charged a former Texas pastor and his wife for allegedly defrauding hundreds of investors through an alkaline water-backed cryptocurrency TeshuaCoin.

Apr 3, 2020

The SEC alleges a fraudulent operation involving a"TeshuaCoin" backed by alkaline water. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Markets

Binance Donated $2.4M in Coronavirus Medical Supplies; CZ Pledges More

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said his exchange had donated $2.4 million in crypto to buying medical supplies to fight the novel coronavirus outbreak, and plans to donate up to $5 million total.

Apr 3, 2020

Markets

Brazilian Financial Regulators Will Vet Companies and Political Appointees on a Blockchain

Brazil’s major financial regulators have unified their intelligence troves under a blockchain-backed sharing system called PIER.

Apr 2, 2020

Markets

Digital Custodian Anchorage Adds XRP Storage for Institutional Customers

Anchorage, a digital asset custodian targeting institutional clients, has added support for XRP, offering services for all of the top-3 cryptocurrencies.

Apr 2, 2020

Crypto custodians are increasingly mindful of how stored tokens should be used in governing DeFi protocols. (Credit: NYPL)

Policy

FATF Says US 'Largely Compliant' With Virtual Currency Recommendations

A new Financial Action Task Force report says the U.S. is largely in compliance with its recommendations around digital assets, but still has some "minor deficiencies" in its state and federal framework.

Apr 2, 2020

The U.S. retains "minor deficiencies" in its policing of the virtual asset space. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Markets

Blockstack Wins Patent for Its Dapp Single Sign-On Product

The U.S. patent office has granted Blockstack intellectual property rights around its single sign-on service for dapps.

Apr 1, 2020

“We don’t want to be in a position where some other (large) company files a patent similar to the work PBC and the community is doing,” Blockstack CEO Muneeb Ali said (Image via Brady Dale/CoinDesk archives)