Danny Nelson

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.

Danny Nelson

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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.

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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)

Finance

Origin Protocol Considers Subsidizing OGN Rewards After Joining NFT Royalty Wars

The protocol is trying to keep its NFT marketplace competitive with OpenSea and Blur

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Finance

Crypto Exchange Orca to Block U.S. Traders From Website

The top decentralized exchange on Solana will restrict U.S. trading activity on orca.so beginning on March 31.

Orca founders Yutaro Mori (left) and Ori Kwan (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Web3 Security Company Ironblocks Takes Aim at Spate of DeFi Hacks

Ironblocks is the latest Israeli startup to build a protocol monitoring product.

Ironblocks CEO Or Dadosh (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Circle Scrambles to Right USDC After Signature Bank Failure

Circle Internet Financial is racing to find new banking partners for its USDC stablecoin.

CEO Jeremy Allaire's Circle is part of the consortium behind USDC. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Silicon Valley Bank Depositors Will Have Access to 'All' Funds Monday, Say Federal Regulators

“Today we are taking decisive actions to protect the U.S. economy by strengthening public confidence in our banking system,” a joint statement read.

Silicon Valley Bank headquarters (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)