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

Activist DAO Investor Pivots to Building a Company

Diogenes Casares' new Stream Protocol is a trading platform he plans to eventually turn into a decentralized perpetual swaps exchange.

Diogenes Casares (Teo Casares)

Finance

Filecoin's Liquid Staker Glif Raises $4.5M, Hints at Token Airdrop

Glif's "liquid leasing" gives FIL holders a way to earn yield on their assets.

Staking (Shutterstock)

Finance

A Crypto Carbon Credits Exchange Is Created in Germany

Neutral and DLT Finance are betting on regulation as the pathway to institutional investor adoption.

carbon offset

Finance

Solana's Most-Notorious Hacker House Is Bigger Than Ever

This year's mtnDAO is flush with cash and short on monitors.

mtnDAO host Barrett (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Trading Platform Avantis Opens Perpetual Swaps DEX on Base Network

Avantis said it saw over $5 billion in trading volume from 50,000 wallets during its two-month testnet run.

Base booth at ETHDenver (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

FTX Hack Mystery Possibly Solved: U.S. Charges Trio With Theft, Including Infamous Attack on Crypto Exchange

The federal indictment doesn't identify Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX as the pilfered company, but Bloomberg reported that's who it was.

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried exiting a federal courthouse in New York last year. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

The Biggest BONK Whale Just Invested in 'Ycombinator for Solana'

What started as a joke is turning into real business for Solana.

A BONK ad in Salt Lake City (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Startup Velar Plans Perpetual Swaps Exchange for Bitcoin DeFi After Raising $3.5M

"Bitcoin DeFi is just too nascent right now," CEO Mithil Thakore said. But that's beginning to change.

Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper on Halloween Day in 2008. (Jonathan Borba/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Market Manipulation May Have Hit Majority of New Ethereum Tokens in 2023: Chainalysis

A new study by the on-chain sleuth found possible pump and dump patterns for 54% of tokens listed in 2023.

Market manipulation persists on Ethereum (Walking Tour Salzburg/Unsplash)

Finance

Hounded by Lawyers and Short on Cash, Ben 'Bitboy Crypto' Armstrong Nixes Daily Show

"We've got lawyers coming at me from every angle," the brash crypto influencer said Wednesday.

Ben Armstrong (Ben Armstrong/YouTube)