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

Seeking Grants Deal with Osmosis, Privacy Blockchain Namada Proposes Airdrop

Ahead of its mainnet launch Namada’s builders are trying to ink an array of tech and token partnerships.

Osmosis Labs co-founder Sunny Aggarwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Hector Network Fight Centers on Efficacy of DAO Governance

The Olympus DAO fork is debating whether to tack on some of the hallmarks of a conventional corporation – something critics view as antithetical centralization.

Debate has ensued over the proliferation of BRC-20 tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain. (Кусмарцева Дарья / Getty Images)

Policy

Filecoin Price Drops After SEC Asks Grayscale to Withdraw Application to Make Trust Reporting

Grayscale announced last month that the SEC suggested FIL might be a security.

Photo of the SEC logo on a building wall

Finance

DeFi Must Get Easier to Use to Win Over Retail Customers, Uniswap Survey Finds

Many respondents said they are put off by the complexity and cost of on-chain trading.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Balancer Might Arbitrage Itself to Rescue Inverse Finance’s Frozen Crypto

The plan would see Balancer raid its own trading pools before other arbitrageurs have the chance to.

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze (Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

DeFi Project Hector Network Mulls Legal Wrapper to Shield DAO

A legal wrapper proposed by leaders of the Fantom-based protocol would empower employees of Hector and, according to critics, undercut the community.

Hector brought back to Troy (Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

GREED Token Is Not a Crypto Scam, but a Lesson on How to Get Scammed Amid Meme Coin Mania

Despite multiple warnings from Voshy, the meme coin's creator, speculators turned over Twitter permissions to get access to the token. They got a valuable lesson in account security.

GREED logo (Voshy/Medium)