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

Crypto Services Company Prime Trust Lays Off One-Third of Staff

The cost-cutting measure comes after a rocky start to 2023 for the Las Vegas-based company.

(Prime Trust, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

DeFi Project Friktion’s Shutdown Said to Stem Partly From Founder Disagreement

The official reason given by Friktion officials for the shutdown was that costs outpaced revenue, creating challenging economics for the Solana-based project.

There was friction between the founders at Friktion. (DALL-E)

Finance

Mango Markets to Resume Crypto Trading, SEC Be Damned

Developers behind the Solana-based crypto exchange aren't letting a little scrutiny from federal regulators stop Mango Markets.

A cubist painting of a federal agent inspecting a mango with a magnifying glass (DALL-E)

Markets

Solana Liquid-Staking Tool Marinade Looks to Bolster Its Token Value With Staked SOL Capture

Pseudonymous Marinade developer Cerba said the effort will bring more legitimacy to mSOL, which is ahead of Lido’s Solana LSD token despite that big-name protocol’s dominance on Ethereum.

Marinade.Finance is looking to bolster the value of its MNDE tokens. (Dall E)

Finance

First Hearing in Genesis Bankruptcy Case Set for Monday

Genesis filed for bankruptcy late Thursday.

(Genesis Trading)

Policy

US Lays Claim to $700M of Assets Linked to Bankman-Fried, FTX

The U.S. and is now seeking their forfeiture.

Tokens vinculados con billeteras de Alameda se vendieron por bitcoin en el último día. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Policy

SEC Sues Eisenberg for Draining Mango Markets, Alleges MNGO a Security

It’s the latest case to emerge from Avraham Eisenberg’s “highly profitable trading strategy.”

Sliced mango served up on a table (Desirae Hayes-Vitor/Unsplash)

Finance

Genesis Claims $5.1B in Liabilities in First-Day Bankruptcy Filing

Three of the institutional crypto brokerage's entities filed for Chapter 11 protection late Thursday.

(Genesis Trading, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Genesis' Crypto Lending Businesses File for Bankruptcy Protection

The collapse of FTX in late 2022 was the final straw for Genesis, which earlier that year reportedly suffered losses of several hundred million dollars due to its exposure to failed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital.

(Genesis Trading, modificado por CoinDesk)