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

DeFi Protocol Curve’s $500M Stablecoin Pool Hammered as Traders Flee USDC

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is causing turmoil in crypto stablecoin markets.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

DeFi Stablecoin Exchange mStable Expects 4 Buyout Bids: Source

“We've been working for four weeks actively trying to pursue a M&A route,” protocol’s strategy lead says.

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Policy

Silicon Valley Bank Shuttered by State Regulators

The startup-focused bank had a number of crypto clients.

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Finance

MakerDAO Founder Calls for Rebranding of DAI Stablecoin

Rune Christensen said on a call with community members DAI suffers from bad branding that could be slowing its growth.

Rune Christensen (Trevor Jones)

Finance

Aave Advances Plan to Nix Borrowing, Lending of Binance’s BUSD Stablecoin

The offboarding proposal won overwhelming support from members of the Aave DAO.

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Finance

Crypto Trading Protocol Vertex Eyes Institutional Traders on Arbitrum

“You can never scale the way we’re planning to scale if you’re just" automatic market maker-driven, co-founder Darius Tabatabai said.

Vertex co-founder Darius Tabatabai (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Startup LI.FI Spins Up Bridge, DEX Aggregator

The retail-facing platform uses a noncustodial setup, CEO Philipp Zentner said.

LI.FI CEO Philipp Zentner (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

ETHDenver 2023 Ran a Profit. Will Members of Its DAO Get Some of the Returns?

After ending this year’s edition well in the black, Colorado cooperative SporkDAO LCA may now vote to send distributions to token holders.

Check-in at ETHDenver 2023 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

ETHDenver Teases Spin-off Plans as Conference Winds Down

After a successful week of hacking, networking and partying, conference co-founder John Paller revealed he is in talks to organize satellite events in other countries.

ETHDenver co-founder John Paller delivers his closing remarks. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Uniswap Wants to Launch Crypto Wallet App, but Apple Says Not So Fast

The company behind the top decentralized exchange said Apple is standing in the way of the offering.

Uniswap Labs design lead Callil Capuozzo at ETHDenver 2023 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)