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

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)

Finance

Solana Tokens or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Points

Could loyalty programs and token airdrops embiggen Solana DeFi? Danny Nelson heads to Utah to find out.

Cypher founder and mtnDAO emcee Barrett (Danny Nelson)

Finance

Ethereum Juggernaut MetaMask’s Origin Story Challenged in New Lawsuit

Joel Dietz alleges Consensys never credited him for sparking the idea for MetaMask, the most important Ethereum wallet.

Joel Dietz

Finance

Spooked by Curve Liquidation Threat, DeFi Protocols Shore Up Defenses

They’re responding to the potential systemic risk posed by Michael Egorov’s teetering financial position.

(Callum Skelton/Unsplash)

Finance

Curve Finance Drained of $50M While CRV Token Sinks 12% in Latest DeFi Exploit

More than $100M-worth of cryptocurrency could be at risk due to a bug impacting Curve, a stablecoin exchange at the center of Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem.

(Tim Arterbury/Unsplash)

Finance

Arbitrum DAO’s First Grants Programs Take Shape

Two governance proposals are collectively requesting nearly $5 million worth of ARB tokens to launch grants programs.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)