Danny Nelson

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

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)

Finance

Pixels Crypto Game Fuels Resurgent Ronin Blockchain

Ronin's user base has jumped 700% over the past few months, according to Token Terminal.

Jeffrey Zirlin, co-founder of Sky Mavis (left) (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Policy

FTX Was Down to Last 105 Bitcoins When Bankruptcy Rescue Crew Arrived: John Ray

Ray said Bankman-Fried’s victims “will never be returned to the same economic position they would have been in today absent his colossal fraud.”

New FTX CEO John J. Ray III (C-Span)

Finance

Ethereum Foundation Faces Inquiry From a Government; Fortune Says SEC Investigating ETH

After the publication of this article, Fortune reported the SEC seeks to classify ETH as a security.

(TechCrunch/Wikimeda Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Berachain's Crypto Trade Aggregator Ooga Booga Raises $1M

Berachain mainnet isn't even live yet; no traders are trading, or exchanges exchanging, on crypto's latest layer-1. But that isn't dissuading Ooga Booga from fundraising to support both.

(Mark Basarab/Unsplash)

Finance

Polygon Labs Paid $4M to Host Starbucks' Failed Foray Into Crypto: Sources

The blockchain developer gave the coffee giant a $4 million grant as part of their 2022 deal to build an NFT-powered loyalty program that is now being shuttered.

GoToVan/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk

Finance

MANTRA Chain Raises $11M for RWA Tokenization with Middle East Tint

The project seeks to be a hub for RWAs in the Cosmos ecosystem.

Dubai (Christoph Schulz/Unsplash)