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

Crypto Criminals Stealing Much Less Money in 2023: Chainalysis Report

Scammers and hackers have seen significantly less inflows through mid-June.

Michael Gronager, CEO de Chainalysis. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Aptos Voting to Enable Fungible Assets With Network Upgrade

The week-long vote includes changes to tokenomics and backend services underpinning the layer 1 blockchain.

An Aptos-branded hat. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Startup Arkham Has Apparently Been Doxxing Users for Months

The company had already angered the crypto community Monday with a service that unmasks anonymous crypto users. Then came allegations it used an easy-to-decipher method for hiding customers’ email addresses.

(Jason Dent/Unsplash)

Finance

Multichain Bridges Exploited for Nearly $130M Across Fantom, Moonriver and Dogechain

Multichain developers told users to revoke smart contract approvals after locked funds had been moved to an unknown address abnormally.

Bridge (Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Centralization Comes to DeFi as Group Behind MIM, SPELL Tokens Mull Legal Shakeup

A project leader called for adding lawyers, jurisdictions and trustees for Abracadabra DAO, the entity overseeing Magic Internet Money (MIM) and SPELL tokens.

The MIM stablecoin has a $700 million market cap (Abracadabra DAO)

Finance

Celsius to Potentially Sell More Than $170M in ADA, MATIC, SOL and Altcoins for BTC, ETH

Court documents from last November give a rough picture of the lender’s altcoin holdings.

(Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Liquid Staking Frenzy Spreads to Solana as Drift's 'Super Stake' Offers One-Click Leverage

Drift Protocol’s “Super Stake” is a hit among traders trying to get extra yield on their staked SOL tokens.

Solana's offices in New York (Danny Nelson)

Finance

Popular Standard for Issuing Tokenized Securities Gets Makeover

Republic Crypto and Upside are debuting ERC-1404 Prime as a future forward token standard.

(simoncarter/ Getty)