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

With Crypto Governance in CFTC Crosshairs, SushiSwap Mulls Legal Shakeup

Outside lawyers have told Sushi to restructure around legal entities. In the wake of Ooki, will the DAO listen?

Sushi as been advised to break itself up. (Stefan Schauberger/Unsplash)

Finance

Valkyrie Funds to Offer Crypto SMAs, Challenging Ark and Franklin Templeton

The crypto-native investment manager will offer actively managed strategies that delve into bitcoin, ether and more.

Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald (CoinDesk TV)

Finance

What Is EthereumMax? Inside the Crypto Kim Kardashian Lost $1.2M Promoting

EthereumMax and the EMAX token won investors over with big promises and flashy names. But has it delivered?

EMAX Ethereum Max and Kim Kardashian (Ethereum Max/Daniele Venturelli/WireImage/Getty Images))

Finance

Genesis Sales, Trading Chief Ballensweig Exits Crypto Lender

The departure follows massive losses and a new management team put in place earlier this year.

Genesis CEO Michael Moro speaks at Invest: Asia 2019.

Finance

CEL Token Jumps as SBF Said to Eye Celsius in Buying Spree

The native token of Celsius regained momentum just hours after being rocked by the surprise departure of CEO Alex Mashinsky.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance Bungles Accounting for Helium Tokens, Overpays Clients Millions: Sources

The Helium network has two tokens, HNT and MOBILE. Binance counted them as one, HNT, resulting in a windfall for customers who deposited the less valuable MOBILE.

(Peter Cade/Getty Images)