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

Chaos at MarginFi Shakes up Solana DeFi's Borrow-and-Lend Landscape

Solend and Kamino were the biggest winners in the Solana DeFi landscape.

marginFi banner (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

MarginFi Leader Resigns on Fiery Day for Major Solana Lender

"The main problem was our lack of organizational execution," MarginFi's longtime leader Edgar Pavlovsky told CoinDesk.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Derivatives Exchange Stream Trading Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding

The funding round values the company at $20 million.

Arbitrage trade opens up on TX (Alexander Grey/Unsplash)

Policy

DeFi Trader Eisenberg 'Wasn't Borrowing, He Was Stealing,' Prosecutor Says in Opening Argument

The defense countered that Eisenberg "risked 13 million of his own dollars" to net $110 million from Mango Markets.

Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@alschim?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Alexander Schimmeck</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/yellow-and-red-fruit-lot-vTXtQ8ZBzvY?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash">Unsplash</a>

Finance

Pompliano, Ex-Journo Melinek Spin Up 'Token Relations' Startup for Blockchain Firms

The media startup will offer a "third bucket" of information to crypto startups' stakeholders.

Token Relations aims to supplant the one-to-many communications model exemplified by X. (Nathan Dumlao/Unsplash)

Policy

Crypto Trader Eisenberg's $110M Fraud Trial to Put DeFi Under Microscope

The two-week trial will test the government's strategy of portraying complex crypto trades as simple fraud.

Avi Eisenberg's profile pic on X (formerly Twitter).

Finance

Credbull's First Crypto Fund Chases High Fixed Yields

Crypto's high yield structured product sector is getting a bit more mature.

Credbull CEO Jason Dehni (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Galaxy Plans to Raise $100M for Crypto Venture Fund

Galaxy's prolific venture wing plans to start accepting – and investing – outside capital.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Telegram's Pivot to TON Payments for Ads Boosts Toncoin

The messaging app's switch to TON from Euro creates a circular economy for the closely-linked crypto.

Toncoin rises amid potential Telegram IPO (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)