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

Digital Identity Startup Holonym Acquires Gitcoin Passport

The cash and token deal scales up a Worldcoin "alternative."

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Finance

Decentralized AI Opportunity Is 'Bigger than Bitcoin,' Says DCG's Barry Silbert

Barry Silbert thinks deAI is a generational opportunity. DCG's betting on it.

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Finance

Raydium is Solana's AMM King. Can it Corner the Perps Market Next?

The AMM's month-old perps service is already seeing $100 million in daily volume.

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Finance

Textile, 3Box Labs Merge in Decentralized Data Tie-Up for AI Agents

The crypto-data veterans shared venture backers and product lines.

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Policy

Pump.Fun Hit With Proposed Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Securities Violations

The suit alleges that Pump.fun has made nearly $500 million in fees from helping users generate memecoins.

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Tech

DAO Governance Platform Agora Acquires Older Competitor, Boardroom

Industry insiders hope that regulatory clarity under a Trump administration might renew interest in decentralized governance.

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Finance

Ranger Labs Raises $1.9M, Eyes AI-Powered Crypto Trading Products

The Solana-based DEX builder is gearing up for an expansion.

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Policy

Trump's CFTC Pick Clears Top Ranks of Key US Crypto Regulator

Caroline Pham, the CFTC's interim chief elevated by President Donald Trump, has cleared the decks of the derivatives regulator's senior officials.

Commissioner Caroline Pham is proposing a crypto regulation pilot program at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)

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Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Goes on Offense Amid Major Leadership Shake-up

Buterin labeled inflammatory X posts about the head of the Ethereum Foundation as "pure evil."

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Finance

Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial to Acquire TRX for its Treasury: Source

A Tron delegation will attend Trump's inauguration on Monday.

Donald Trump at BTC 2024 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)