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

ROOK Token Surges Ahead of $50M Treasury Split Between Community and MEV Tech Builders

A proposal would divvy up Rook’s nearly $50 million crypto treasury between Rook Labs, which builds MEV technology, and the new Incubator DAO.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Arbitrum Foundation Pledges New Votes, No 'Near-Term' ARB Sales Amid Community Revolt

Arbitrum will hold a standalone vote on its 750 million token allocation.

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Finance

Arbitrum Foundation Sold ARB Tokens Ahead of 'Ratification' Vote; ARB Falls

The Foundation would be “severely damaged” without blank-check grantmaking powers, according to a blog post.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Arbitrum’s First Governance Proposal Turns Messy, With $1B ARB Tokens at Stake

The Arbitrum Foundation would get to side-step community governance when issuing “special grants.”

Arbitrum booth at ETHDenver (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Exchange Mango Markets Considers Raising Interest Rates for Popular Tokens

Only the pool for borrowing and lending SOL tokens would be affected by the proposed changes.

(Desirae Hayes-Vitor/Unsplash)

Finance

DeFi Protocol ROOK ‘Gagged’ From Sharing Road Map by Clients, CEO Says

The pseudonymous CEO Hazard said "we’re bound by the will of the order flow providers,” on a community governance call.

(PIRO4D/Pixabay)

Finance

GoldenTree Moves $5M of SUSHI, Sparking Fear It’s Exiting

Much of the asset manager’s Sushi trove was deposited at Binance in the last 24 hours.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Policy

SEC Sues Jake Paul for 'Illegally Touting' Justin Sun-Linked Cryptos

Paul and other celebrities did not disclose they were paid to promote Sun-linked assets, the SEC alleged.

Jake Paul (Sarah Stier/Getty Images)