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.

Danny Nelson

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Bittrex Adopts Chainalysis KYT Software to Flag Suspicious Activity

Bittrex's implementation of the intelligence software may help prevent bad actors from operating on the American exchange.

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US House Passes Bill for FinCEN to Study Blockchain Use

The House of Representatives passed legislation calling for FinCEN to study its use of “innovative technologies” — including blockchain.

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Bitrue Exchange to Launch Crypto-Backed Loan Platform

The service, which goes live on Sept. 30, loans BTC, ETH XRP and USDT at a 0.04% daily interest rate.

Loans

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GrainChain's Smart Contracts Unite Honduras Coffee Business

The agro-focused blockchain platform has brokered deals to track the production and trade of coffee beans across the Honduran supply chain.

coffee, farm

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Cisco, SingularityNET to Decentralize Artificial Intelligence via Blockchain

Networking giant Cisco Systems is collaborating with SingularityNET on developing applications of decentralized AGI.

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CipherTrace Scout App Takes Crypto Investigations Mobile

Blockchain forensics firm CipherTrace has developed a mobile tool for flagging bitcoin and ethereum tokens with a criminal past.

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Byrne Sells Overstock Stake to Buy Crypto and Battle 'Deep State'

Former Overstock CO Patrick Byrne dumped his 13% stake in the company he founded to buy cryptocurrency and gold as he prepares to battle his enemies.

byrne, overstock

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Israeli Startup Creates Offline Crypto Wallet with Online Connectivity

Israeli startup GK8 unveiled a cold-storage crypto wallet with on-network transfer capabilities.

lamesh, wallet, GK8

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Decentralized Employment Ecosystem Opolis to Integrate MakerDAO’s Dai Cryptocurrency

Opolis received a grant from MakerDAO to integrate its Dai cryptocurrency into its decentralized employer ecosystem for payroll and benefits.

freelance, cafe

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European Space Agency Backs Blockchain Satellite Project

Blockchain startup SpaceChain won a 60K euro grant from the European Space Agency to investigate use-cases for their satellite-based wallet system.

Space, the next frontier for blockchain.