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

Aragon Mulled Sale of Crypto Project, Leaked Screenshot Shows

One of the biggest crypto projects building tools to support decentralized governance is trying to get out of its own governance pickle.

(Aragon Association, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Early Base Whales Have an Affinity for Meme Tokens, Nansen Says

The top 22 depositors to Base as of July 31 have allocations in a telegram trading bot token, several meme tokens and an on-chain casino token.

(Mike Doherty/Unsplash)

Tech

Venture-Backed Saddle Finance Proposes Wind-Down, Dissolution

The Ethereum-based crypto trading protocol would shut down and distribute its treasury to investors under the proposed plan.

(Sean Gladwell/Getty Images)

Finance

Solana-Based Cypher Protocol Experiences Exploit, Freezes Smart Contract

The protocol’s contracts are now frozen as contributors attempt to make contact with hackers to negotiate a return of funds.

Cypher Protocol suffers exploit (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

Tech

Crypto Exchange Mango’s Legal Bills Swell, a Year After Alleged $116M Heist

First the blockchain-based exchange was allegedly victimized by a market manipulator, and now it's having to spend big on lawyers to pursue suits and other remedies.

(Desirae Hayes-Vitor/Unsplash)

Finance

Aptos’ APT Token Slides Ahead of $30M Unlock

APT has decreased by over 3.2% in the past 24 hours performing worse than bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH), per CoinDesk market data.

Aptos founders Mo Shaikh (left) and Avery Ching (Aptos Labs)

Finance

Mantle Introduces New Governing Body for Treasury Management

The new layer 2 network passed a governance vote that establishes the Mantle Economics Committee as well as introduces more liquid staking into the ecosystem by authorizing liquid staking protocol Mantle LSD and the allocation of 40,000 ETH from its treasury to stETH.

(Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Finance

Curve Founder Raises $42.4M to Pay Off $80M On-Chain Debt

Michael Egorov is under liquidation pressure following CRV’s recent price drop and Curve exploit.

Curve founder Michael Egorov was liquidated, again. (Michael Egorov, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Curve Offers Hackers 10% Bounty in Exchange for Return of Crypto

"We will pursue you from all angles with the full extent of the law," said Curve, Metronome and Alchemix.

Actor Liam Neeson (Getty images)