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.

Danny Nelson

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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)

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)