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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.

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Policy

Jury Begins Deliberations in $110M Mango Markets Fraud Trial

Avi Eisenberg faces up to 20 years in prison if he’s convicted on all three counts against him.

Apr 17, 2024

Mango (Desirae Hayes-Vitor/Unsplash)

Markets

PSG Fan Token Jumps 25% as Football Club Triumphs Over Barcelona

Paris Saint-Germain's fan token is one of several issued for sports clubs by the crypto company Socios.

Apr 16, 2024

Paris Saint-Germain stadium (Tim Lontano/Unsplash)

Tech

Solana DEX Drift to Airdrop 100M Tokens in Weeks

Some surprise winners in Drift's road to decentralization include MetaDAO.

Apr 16, 2024

DRIFT is airdropping over 100 million tokens. (Drift Protocol)

Policy

Avi Eisenberg May Testify in $110M Crypto Fraud Trial, Defense Says

The crypto trader is facing up to 20 years in jail if convicted on all counts.

Apr 11, 2024

Avi Eisenberg is accused of fraudulent trading on Mango Markets ((Deon Black, Unsplash)

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.

Apr 11, 2024

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.

Apr 11, 2024

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Binance 'Working Collaboratively' With Nigerian Government to Free Detained Executive, Compliance Chief Says

Tigran Gambaryan was detained in February.

Apr 10, 2024

Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

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

The funding round values the company at $20 million.

Apr 10, 2024

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.

Apr 9, 2024

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.

Apr 9, 2024

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