Danny Nelson

Managing Editor - Data & Tokens

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.

Latest from Danny Nelson

Podcasts

OpenAI CEO Testifies on Capitol Hill; GREED Token's Lesson Amid Meme Coin Mania

May 16, 2023

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.

May 16, 2023

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.

May 15, 2023

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.

May 15, 2023

Finance

Polychain Snubs Lucrative Crypto Arbitrage, Prepares to Trade $6M of ROOK Token on Uniswap

After activist investors successfully lobbied for a major overhaul of ROOK, a potentially very lucrative trading opportunity opened up for token holders.

May 11, 2023