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

Yearn Finance Voters to Wintermute: Drop Dead

One of the biggest market makers in crypto is having trouble getting nearly free money out of Yearn Finance.

Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Solana-Based Automation Startup Clockwork to Shut Down

The venture-backed startup’s founders saw “limited commercial upside.”

Clockwork to shut down (Heather Zabriskie/Unsplash)

Markets

Weird PEPE Transfers Spook Crypto Investors and Prompt Meme Coin's 15% Plunge

On-chain sleuths noted troubling changes to the oversight of a key wallet.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Hacked Crypto Exchange Cypher Plans to Hold Public Token Sale

The sale will be uncommonly tilted toward the public.

A frontend developer for Cypher at mtnDAO. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Balancer Depositors Pull Nearly $100M in Crypto After Vulnerability Warning

“People are withdrawing fast,” said pseudonymous contributor Xeonus.

(Public Domain Dedication/Flickr)

Markets

Curve Crisis Averted, NFT Loans Protocol Now Votes on Next Steps

JPEG’d DAO voters are deciding how to account for a $1 million bounty.

Equity investors have limited choices if they want to trade Ethereum's Merge. (Getty Images)

Finance

Metaverse Platform Sandbox Transferred Out 60M SAND Ahead of Monday's $133M Token Unlock

As the price of SAND slid 4% in August, the Sandbox Genesis smart contract had emitted 60 million SAND tokens prior to the upcoming token unlocked scheduled for Aug. 14.

(The Sandbox)