Danny Nelson

Danny was 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

$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)

Finance

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)

Layer 2

Crypto Hacks Fuel Memes of North Korea: Blockchain’s Biggest Baddie

"Funding secured for next missile launch."

North Korea's leader is casting a shadow over crypto. (Korea Summit Press Pool/Getty Images)

Finance

Valkyrie to Liquidate Bitcoin Balance Sheet ETF After Limited Uptake

The crypto native investment shop’s Nasdaq-listed fund never really caught on with investors.

Valkyrie Chief Investment Officer Steven McClurg speaks at Bitcoin Miami 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Market Maker GSR Cuts Staff Amid Crypto Winter

The trading shop cut less than 10% of staff to “continue to position our business for long-term growth,” a spokesperson told CoinDesk

The cuts came in the third quarter. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

‘Fear’ May Be Keeping Ooki DAO From Mounting Defense Against CFTC

Time is running out for the DAO to respond to court filings in what could be a major test for crypto governance.

CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Huobi Global to be Acquired by About Capital

The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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