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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Tech

Wormhole Launches New Blockchain Connecting to Any Cosmos Appchain

The Wormhole Gateway is designed to make it easier for developers and users to on-ramp liquidity into the Cosmos ecosystem.

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Finance

Stablecoin Issuer Lybra Finance Launches Arbitrum Testnet Amid Quest to Be More DeFi-Friendly

Users can now interact with Lybra’s new companion stablecoin peUSD, which is said to be more compatible with decentralized finance protocols than the protocol’s main stablecoin eUSD.

Lybra Finance launched its version 2 test network on Arbitrum Wednesday morning. (Getty Images)

Policy

New U.S. Senate Bill Wants to Regulate DeFi Like a Bank

DeFi protocols would need to impose strict controls on their users.

Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I) is sponsoring the bill (Photo by Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images)

Tech

Solana’s Largest Protocol, Marinade, Bets Growth on ‘Native’ SOL Staking Product

Marinade Finance contributors say the new service could appeal to institutional investors.

cartoon of Marinade Finance's logo

Finance

Messaging Platform Telegram Has Issued $270M in Bonds to Fund Growth

"I personally bought about a quarter of the new Telegram bonds," said Pavel Durov, the CEO of the popular but not-yet-profitable platform.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov (TechCrunch)

Finance

Hector Network Votes to Liquidate $16M Treasury Following Multichain, Fantom Losses

The vote delivers a pyrrhic victory to activist investors who hounded the Fantom-based project with allegations of mismanagement.

(H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images)

Tech

DeFi Lender MarginFi Fuels Growth With Loyalty Points, Spurring Talk of ‘Solana Renaissance’

MarginFi’s new points program has many users convinced it's the setup for a token airdrop.

marginFi banner (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase Adds Messaging Function to Crypto Wallet

The new messaging feature will let any two Ethereum addresses talk to each other.

(Pradamas Gifarry/Unsplash)