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

Multicoin-Backed Sports Startup Pitches NFTs as Ticket to Fan Experiences

NFT startup Mercury raised $7.5 million to build hyperlocal fan experiences for college fanbases.

(Getty Images)

Finance

Plaid Unveils ‘Wallet Onboard’ Tool, Promises Crypto Product Push

The banking fintech says it is delving deeper into Web3 and crypto.

Banking fintech Plaid is pushing into crypto products with a wallet connector for Ethereum wallets (Plaid)

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Where Are Web3 Users Coming From? Startup Spindl Aims to Help Companies Find Out

The Miami-based company has raised $7 million to recreate an important part of Web2 analytics known as “attribution.”

CEO Antonio Garcia Martinez named Spindl for the three Fates of Greek mythology, who wove the threads of a person's life on a giant loom. (Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Aptos Token Plunges in Trading Debut

FTX, Coinbase and Binance were among the first exchanges to list the buzzy new layer 1 token.

An Aptos-branded hat. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Aptos Debuts Its Blockchain, Putting Millions in VC Dollars to the Test

The venture capital darling has been anticipated for months.

Aptos Labs CEO Mo Shaikh (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)

Finance

$114M Mango Markets Exploiter Outs Himself, Returns Most of the Money

Avraham Eisenberg defended his actions after returning $67 million. The Mango DAO plans to vote on how to divvy up the funds next week.

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

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Crypto Trading Firm NYDIG Lays Off About 33% of Staff

The layoffs had been going on for "several weeks," one person told CoinDesk.

La firma de trading NYDIG despidió 30% de su fuerza laboral. (Kenny Eliason/Unsplash)

Finance

Enterprise Crypto Wallet Startup Pine Street Labs Raises $6M in Polychain-Led Round

The startup is trying to save businesses from crypto wallet purgatory.

Pine Street Labs co-founders Philip Glazman and Justin Gregorius (Pine Street Labs)