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

Pudgy Penguins NFTs Break All-Time Highs With Holiday Rally

A fast-rising floor price caps the once written-off collection’s banner year.

Pudgy Penguins NFT are on a holiday rally. (Screenshot)

Policy

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Borrowed From Alameda to Buy Robinhood Shares

Alameda took out a loan pledging those same shares as collateral.

Extradición a Estados Unidos del fundador de FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, desde las Bahamas. (Real Fuerza de Policía de Bahamas)

Finance

Solana DeFi Project Mercurial to Relaunch as 'Meteora,' Replace MER Token

Mercurial is the latest to move away from FTX's shadow.

Scenes from Solana's Miami Hacker House in April 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Tron’s Justin Sun Was Secret Top Client of Crypto Asset Manager Valkyrie

A private financial document reviewed by CoinDesk shows that Sun, one of the richest figures in crypto, was responsible for the vast majority of a key Valkyrie division’s assets under management.

Cartel del fundador de Tron, Justin Sun. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Trading Protocol Drift Relaunches Into Rocky Solana DeFi Landscape

The derivatives trader is back after an eight-month hiatus.

Drift v2 (Drift Protocol)

Finance

Bankman-Fried Lawsuits Expose FTX's 'Special Treatment' of Alameda Research

Sam Bankman-Fried’s “personal piggy bank” Alameda Research was deeply intertwined with his exchange, FTX.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

FalconX Discloses Assets Locked on FTX

The crypto trading firm says it can nonetheless take the pain.

FalconX Chief Executive Officer Raghu Yarlagadda (FalconX)