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

It’s Hard to Fund Midsize Green Assets. This Tokenization Startup Wants to Change That

Plural Energy is already tokenizing renewable energy projects; it wants these assets to permeate through the crypto ecosystem.

Adam Silver (Plural Energy)

Finance

Solana Pushes Validators to Test Early 'Firedancer' Upgrade

The upgrade from Jump Crypto could drastically boost transaction throughput, helping Solana support legacy financial markets.

Jump Chief Science Officer Kevin Bowers (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Haliey Welch 'Fully Cooperating' With Lawyers Suing Over Failed HAWK Crypto

Hawk Tuah girl broke days of silence to say she wants to hold those responsible to account.

Haliey Welch issues statement on HAWK memecoin (Hawk Token Page/Overhere)

Finance

Coinbase Says It Nixed wBTC Because Justin Sun Posed 'Unacceptable Risk'

BiT Global, issuer of the "wrapped bitcoin" token, "refused" to answer Coinbase's questions about Sun's involvement, the exchange said in a court filing.

Tron Founder Justin Sun. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. Shuts Down North Korean Crypto Money Laundering Network

OFAC says a front company in the UAE had been converting crypto into cash for North Korea.

North Korea, Kim Jong Un

Finance

Pudgy Penguins PENGU Token Debuts at $2.3B Market Cap

$90 million worth of PENGU has traded in its first hour of release.

Image of several Pudgy Penguin NFTs (Pudgy Penguins)

Finance

Ranger Finance Targets Crypto Perps Traders of 'Size' on Solana

Solana's first crypto perpetuals aggregators service wants to compete with market leader Hyperliquid.

whaling

Finance

Stablecoin Trading Startup Perena Tries Its Luck on Solana

Perena wants to be the "neutral layer" bringing liquidity to stablecoin issuers.

Anna Yuan, founder of Perena (Perena)

Finance

Power-Hungry AI Fuels Crypto VC's Bet on Tokenized Uranium Startup

Portal Ventures wrote the lead check in Uranium Digital's $1.7 million round.

Diablo Canyon power plant (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Finance

Magic Eden's $5B Token Airdrop Raises Crypto Wallet Security Questions

To claim aidrops, users had to download Magic Eden's wallet, a highly atypical process that industry insiders said threatened to breach security best practices.

Magic Eden CEO Jack Lu at Solana Breakpoint 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)