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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Markets

Solana's SOL Dips Below $100, Slips Back Behind BNB in Crypto Ranking

Traders were moving capital from SOL to stablecoins suggesting profit taking, one analyst said in an interview.

Solana (SOL) price today (CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance User Base Grew 30% This Year, Expanding Even After U.S. Legal Settlements

The largest cryptocurrency trading venue added 40 million accounts to 170 million.

Richard Teng (Binance)

Markets

Solana’s SOL Rallies Past $100, Continuing Torrid Month

Meme coin traders and airdrop farmers are bringing more attention to Solana.

Solana's Breakpoint came at the market's previous zenith (Zack Seward/CoinDesk)

Policy

SEC Blasts 'Purportedly Decentralized' DAOs in $1.7M Settlement with BarnBridge

BarnBridge failed to register its structured crypto product with the SEC, regulators alleged.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Finance

Access Protocol Airdrops $250 in ACS Token to Saga Phones After BONK Buying Spree

ACS saw its busiest-ever day of trading following the 100,000 token airdrop.

Saga phone (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crashed Stablecoin Iron Bank Euro (ibEUR) Lacks Fast Repeg Path

The not-so-stablecoin fell in value Monday after a single trader pulled much of the USDC that kept its Curve pool balanced.

Car crash narrow road wedged (Unsplash)

Finance

Helium Mobile Cracks Down on MOBILE Token Farmers

"Helium Mobile has seen so many signups, with some a bit more suspicious than others," an employee said.

Helium Mobile (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

New Kind of Crypto Insider Trading? SEC Might Take a Look at These Trades, Experts Say

"It seems like there's smoke here, and it may be worth an investigation to see if there's a fire," a finance professor said.

(Jon Simon/Bettmann via Getty Images)

Tech

Arbitrum Hit by 'Partial Outage' Due to Traffic Surge

The layer-2 blockchain stopped working as intended Friday morning.

Arbitrum booth at ETHDenver (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)