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

PancakeSwap Leaders Propose Cutting CAKE Token Inflation Target to 3%-5%

“We believe it is time to take this model to the next level and supercharge CAKE towards a deflationary model based on real yield and CAKE burn,” a blog post said.

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Finance

This AI Chatbot Plugs Into Your Crypto Wallet

MarginFi's Omni chatbot is intended to merge two tech world "next big things."

marginFi banner (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Scroll Aims to Be the Turtle That Wins the Ethereum Scaling Race

This decentralized, global team of developers is ignoring the urge to be the first to scale Ethereum. For its holistic approach to building broadly and transparently, Scroll is one of CoinDesk’s Projects to Watch 2023.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Finance

Olympus DAO Votes to Buy More ETH for Treasury Backing OHM Token

The rebalancing comes as ether rallies off a successful Shapella upgrade.

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Finance

ROOK Token Holders Poised to Collect $25M Payout

Rook Labs and activist investors reached a deal that returns millions of dollars to the former DAO.

The riot pepe became a calling card of Rook's activist investors. (Hazard/Rook)

Finance

Solana’s Crypto-Ready ‘Saga’ Smartphone Goes on Sale May 8

The Saga aims to put crypto in people’s pockets, where the rest of the digital world has already gone.

The Saga smartphone. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

DeFi Insurer Nexus Mutual Demands $2M Refund From Euler Hack Claimants. One User Traded it Anyway

Euler's hacker returned most of the money, putting the insurer that already paid claims in a pickle. Members of Nexus Mutual could get lawyers involved if the $2 million they’re owed isn’t returned.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

ROOK Investors Aim to ‘Rage Quit’ Through Plan to Liquidate $25M Crypto Treasury

Their vote could hand ROOK token holders a big payout.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)