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

Fan Club for Solana's Saga Phone Loses 750 SOL

Saga DAO's founder had moved the funds to a wallet whose multisig protections never came online.

Saga phone (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Solana Startup Dialect Builds 'Conversational' Telegram Trading Bot

Chat is the "ideal human-computer interface," said CEO Chris Osborn.

Dialect Operator's interface (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Solana Delivers 'Token Extensions' to Attract Compliance-Minded Token Developers

The new features let token developers hard code various restrictions into their assets.

Scenes from a Solana hacker house (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Avalanche Foundation Puts Rules on Plans to Buy Meme Coins

Only meme coins native to the Avalanche blockchain will be considered, according to new guidelines.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Donald Trump's NFTs Have Limits Normal Ones Don't

Buyers of these Bitcoin ordinals can't trade them for almost a year.

Donald Trump pitching his NFTs (CollectTrumpCards.com)

Finance

Solana Mobile to Sell Second Crypto Smartphone

The successor to Saga will have new hardware and a cheaper price point, according to a person familiar with the plans.

The Saga smartphone. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Liquidity-Focused Berachain Opens Layer-1 Testnet to Public

Berachain's pseudonymous founders plan "to accomplish more with less initial resources."

The current crypto bear market continues. (mana5280/Unsplash)

Policy

Hacker Seized SEC Phone Number to Post Fake Bitcoin ETF Approval, X Says

The revelation raises questions about the investments regulator's security protocols.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler in Washington on Oct. 25, 2023 (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Crypto Boosters Attack SEC for 'Manipulating' BTC Market After ETF Tweet

Lawmakers and crypto boosters are asking questions about how the SEC's X (formerly Twitter) account was compromised, leading to a bogus tweet on Tuesday.

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) is one of the lawmakers asking for more information after the SEC's X account was compromised on Tuesday. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Tech

Mango Markets Faces Regulatory 'Inquiry' Ahead of Eisenberg Crypto Fraud Trial

The DEX is voting on whether to appoint a representative to triage this inquiry.

A cubist painting of a federal agent inspecting a mango with a magnifying glass (DALL-E)