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

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)

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)