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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Tech

Apple Vision Pros Are Practically Dress Code at This Crypto Hacker House

Airdrop riches and FOMO are fueling a run on Apple's pricey VR headset at mtnDAO, the Solana blockchain's largest community-run coworking meetup, in Salt Lake City.

Anders and Maribus wearing two of the many Apple Vision Pros at mtnDAO (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Revolut to List Bonk, Distribute $1.2M of Meme Coin in 'Learn' Campaign

Bonk's proponents hope to increase the meme coin's user base by 500,000.

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

Finance

Solana's Second Phone Crosses 100,000 Presales, Securing $45M for Development

Solana Mobile's "chapter 2" smartphone could ship in early 2025.

The Saga smartphone. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

CoinDesk’s New Owner Bullish Replaces CEO in Restructuring

Sara Stratoberdha replaces Kevin Worth, who has led CoinDesk since 2017.

Kevin Worth, former CEO of Coindesk (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

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)