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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Tech

Polygon Blockchain Nodes Briefly Went Out of Sync, Affecting Explorer, Sowing Confusion

A cascade of problems on the Ethereum sidechain caused issues for PolygonScan, an application used to track transactions – causing the appearance of an outage.

U.S. election chaos in November might spill over into crypto markets.

Finance

Solana-Themed Storefronts Close Shop, Ending Experiment in IRL Blockchain Evangelism

Solana Spaces will close its New York City and Miami locations by the end of February.

Solana Spaces (Solana)

Finance

Access Protocol’s ACS Token Rallies After Web3 Paywall’s Public Airdrop

The early airdrops accounted for just 2% of the token’s initial allocation, according to a version of the pitch deck viewed by CoinDesk.

Mika Honkasalo, founder of Access Protocol (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

BUSD Drama Sets Stage for Stablecoin Market Reshuffling

Binance’s bet on its BUSD stablecoin could backfire into a revamping of who’s winning in crypto’s dollar-pegged token markets.

(Amol Tyagi/Unsplash)

Finance

Accused Mango Markets Exploiter Wants to Keep $47M in Disputed Funds: Court Filings

Avraham Eisenberg claims he need not return any more than the $67 million of the $114 million worth of tokens he gained using a complicated trading system.

Law Justice Court Legal (Shutterstock)

Finance

Binance and Huobi Freeze $1.4M in Crypto Tied to Harmony Bridge Theft

Tracing firm Elliptic said it followed the money through Tornado Cash.

(RyersonClark/Getty Images)

Policy

SEC Did Not Consult Industry Before Kraken Crypto Staking Charges: Commissioner Peirce

The SEC commissioner spoke a day after Kraken settled charges with the regulator that its U.S. staking service was an unregistered securities offering.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Kraken to Shut US Crypto-Staking Service, Pay $30M Fine in SEC Settlement

The announcement by the U.S. regulator confirms a CoinDesk scoop from earlier Thursday.

Kraken CEO Dave Ripley (Kraken)