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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Policy

FTC Moves to Join Crypto Lender Celsius’ Bankruptcy Case

The Federal Trade Commission also requested a copy of all relevant documents.

Federal Trade Commission (Shutterstock)

Finance

Celsius CEO Mulls Crypto Custody Pivot After Lending Business Imploded: Report

Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky recently proposed revamping the failed crypto lending business as a digital asset custody firm, according to a New York Times report.

Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky at Consensus 2019 (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Crypto Options Trading Startup Synquote Raises $2.8M From Initialized, Polygon

The company will look to expand its platform for trading derivatives contracts in tokens that don’t usually have such markets.

Traders have never seen anything like the cryptocurrency options trading happening these days in decentralized finance. (Thomas Shotter Boys, 1842/Art Institute of Chicago, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Trading Network Apifiny Turns to Fireblocks to Help Make Asset Transfers Easier

Fireblocks allows its clients to move assets between exchanges without needing to switch to external wallets.

Apifiny's team (Apifiny)

Policy

US Government Recovers $30M From Crypto Game Axie Infinity Hack

Hackers stole over $600 million from Axie earlier this year.

Chainalysis CEO Michael Gronager (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Tracer Elliptic Hires Software Veteran Jackson Hull as CTO

Hull takes over a role previously held by Elliptic’s co-founder James Smith.

Elliptic has hired Jackson Hull as its chief technology officer. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Voyager Kept Taking Buy Orders After Freezing Crypto Transfers; Now, This Trader Is Stuck

“Why did they fill my buy order” after the firm had already shut trading, deposits and withdrawals down? Shaik Taj Baba asked.

Voyager's bankrupcy has left creditors in the lurch. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Developer Brothers Leave VC Firm After CoinDesk Exposé

Ian and Dylan Macalinao, who used a web of secret identities to juice the value of a Solana DeFi project, are “no longer affiliated with” Protagonist VC, said the firm they started.

Ian Macalinao, one of the Saber brothers (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)