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

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)

Finance

OPNX Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Mike Dudas, Issues Justice Tokens

The bankruptcy claims exchange from Kyle Davies and Su Zhu – the founders of failed hedge fund Three Arrows Capital – has also issued Justice Tokens that offer exposure to defamation lawsuits.

Kyle Davies (left) and Su Zhu (middle). (Kyle Davies/X)

Tech

Solana-Based Crypto Lending Platform Jet Pivots to Fixed-Rate Term Lending

The project's new model uses an order book to match borrowers and lenders, relying on a market-based mechanism to set interest rates.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

TrueUSD Says TUSD Stablecoin Has ‘No Exposure’ to Embattled Prime Trust

Traders are still making multi-million dollar bets on a depeg, however.

(Prime Trust, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Custody Firm BitGo Cancels Acquisition of Rival Prime Trust

Prime Trust has been losing clients and deposits to competitors for weeks amid mounting concerns over its business, a source at one former client told CoinDesk.

Full Shows – Consensus: Distributed

Finance

Raft’s R Stablecoin Surges as Traders Embrace Liquid Staking Ether Products

While Raft is centered around its R stablecoin backed by Lido’s stETH, the team has had ongoing conversations about introducing RAFT, an additional token intended to empower community members and help decentralize the protocol.

Raft's total value locked has crossed $55 million in roughly three weeks (DefiLlama).