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.

Danny Nelson

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Finance

New FTX CEO Charged Crypto Exchange $690K Last Year: Hearing

John J. Ray III replaced former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried at the bankrupt crypto exchange.

FTX Group CEO John J. Ray III (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Finance

DeFi Lender Alchemix Approves ALCX Token Buyback Plan

The new revenue spend model seeks to move Alchemix’s synthetic tokens in line with their underlying assets.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Policy

FTX Asks Politicians Who Received Bankman-Fried Donations to Return Money

The “confidential letters” escalate a fight over what could be $93 million in campaign contributions.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, back when he could testify before Congress (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Policy

Alleged Mango Markets Exploiter Eisenberg Is Working to Negotiate Bail Following First NY Court Hearing

Avraham Eisenberg has publicly admitted to draining $116 million from the crypto exchange.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Orion Protocol Loses $3M of Crypto in Trading Pool Exploit

Wallets associated with the event are sending ether through mixer Tornado Cash.

(Orion Protocol, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

LBRY Token Rally Stalls as Traders Move on From Court Speculation

The token has still nearly doubled in price in the past seven days.

Credit: Shutterstock

Finance

Social Token Project Rally Shuts Ethereum Sidechain, Stranding Users’ Crypto Assets

Rally blamed its sidechain’s demise on "macro headwinds."

Rally is sunsetting its Ethereum sidechain. (rally.io)

Finance

Mango Markets Exploiter Thought a DAO Protected Him. Then US Courts Showed Up

Avraham Eisenberg lost his gamble in more ways than one.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Issuance Startup Tokensoft Brings Its Token Launchpad On-Chain

Tokensoft version 2 will allow for greater abstraction in how teams structure their token distributions.

(Getty Images)