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

Inside Solana's Debate on a Major Reduction in SOL Inflation

Solana validators are voting on a major cut to SOL's staking rewards.

Solana

Finance

DoubleZero's 'New Internet' for Blockchains Nabs $400M Valuation from Top Crypto VCs

The communications startup is coordinating a global network of fiber optic cables.

CoinDesk

Web3

Solana DeFi Tokens Undervalued Compared to Ethereum's, Says Franklin Templeton

There's a mismatch between the old guard and new.

A Solana booth at ethDenver (Danny Nelson)

Markets

Trump's Strategic Crypto Reserve is a Positive, Market Has Got it Wrong, Bitwise Says

The final reserve will be almost entirely bitcoin and will be larger than people think, the report said.

Ether spot ETFs likely to attract $15 billion of net inflows in first 18 months: Bitwise. (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Likely to Head Even Lower, but Seeds of Next Bull Move Are Being Sown

The interest rate outlook has gotten appreciably softer over the past couple of weeks.

De NIro and Pesci

Finance

Multicoin Leads $8M Investment in GPS Alternative Geodnet

The hyper-accurate location network provides mapping data down to the size of a golf ball

drone, delivery

Web3

Pump.Fun's Rumored AMM Pivot a 'Strategic Miscalculation,' Says Raydium

A Raydium contributor doubts the memecoin factory could replicate its success.

raydium perps

Finance

Citadel Plans Crypto Market-Making Business: Bloomberg

The company had previously been wary, but the friendlier U.S. regulatory outlook has that stance.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

Finance

Libra Token’s Co-Creator Claimed He Paid Argentinian President Milei’s Sister

It was unclear if any money was exchanged between Davis and Milei's inner circle in advance of Libra's launch.

Javier and Karina Milei

Finance

CZ's Dog Made a Killing for One Memecoin Creator and Murdered Everyone Else

Broccoli coin is the latest example of the dangers of playing in an anything goes market.

CZ and Broccoli