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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Finance

Warlock Labs Raises $8M to Shake Up On-Chain Order Flow

The company caught checks from Polychain, Reciprocal and others.

CoinDesk

Markets

GameStop Bitcoin Pivot Spurs Social Media Chatter as Stock Soars 16%

The gaming retailer will spend some of its $4.8 billion cash holdings to buy bitcoin and stablecoins, sparking discussions around how much it will actually buy.

A GameStop store (CoinDesk Archive)

Markets

Inside Pump.fun's Plan to Dominate Solana DeFi Trading

Solana's most profitable protocol Pump.fun is gunning for an even greater share of the chain's DeFi economy.

Pump.fun's swap tool (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Uranium Digital Raises $6.1M to Speed Debut of Crypto-Powered Spot Market

Founder Alex Dolesky says he needs to move faster to meet exceptional demand.

Photo of Uranium Digital founder Alex Dolesky speaking at the 2025 Penn Blockchain Conference

Markets

Solana CME Futures Fell Short of BTC and ETH Debuts, but There's a Catch

When adjusted for asset market capitalization SOL's relative futures volume looks better, K33 Research noted.

Solana CME futures first-day activity compared to BTC and ETH debuts. (CME/K33 Research)

Markets

Multicoin's Samani Explains Why SOL ETF Could Trounce ETH's

Solana generates a lot more fees with a much smaller market cap than Ethereum, Samani argued.

Kyle Samani (right) (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Solana's Biggest Protocol Jito Leans In on a Changed DC

JitoSOL is not a security, the protocol claimed in a new research paper.

jito

News Analysis

Solana Protected Gender Identity Before Panning It in Anti-Queer Ad

Weeks before Trump won again, Solana held an event that protected "gender identity."

Screenshot of now-deleted Solana ad (X.com)

Finance

Kraken to Offer Superfast Trading With Planned Launch of Colocation Service

Traders based in London can expect under a millisecond latency, the crypto exchange said.

Kraken on phone (PiggyBank/ Unsplash)

Finance

Cardano: Deep Dive on the Trump Reserve Token Whose Blockchain Ignores TVL

The Cardano Foundation measures growth in real-world use cases and not TVL.

Cardano at Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)