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

Outside Magazine Wants the Metaverse to Take a Hike

The fitness lifestyle media company’s “anti-metaverse”platform will give users incentive to ski, run, bike or hike using NFTs and other rewards.

The Outerverse plans to use an "Outside to Earn" model to get people hiking. (Adam Bautz/Flickr, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Investment Firm Valkyrie Branches Into Venture Capital With Focus on Israeli Crypto Startups

Veteran venture capitalist Lluis Pedragosa is leading the new team with a $30 million target fund.

Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald (CoinDesk TV)

Layer 2

Behind Voyager’s Fall: Crypto Broker Acted Like a Bank, Went Bankrupt

In an industry where counterparties are tightly bound together by a weave of debt and leverage, dominoes can fall fast and hard.

Voyager Digital CEO Steve Ehrlich gives a thumbs-up at Bitcoin Miami in April of 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Solana Labs, Multicoin Accused of Violating Securities Law by SOL Investor

Solana’s SOL token is an unregistered security whose insiders have benefitted while retail suffered, the suit alleged.

The suit accuses Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko of securities violations. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Voyager Seeks Bankruptcy Protection Amid Crypto Credit Crisis

The Toronto-based lender filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York late Tuesday.

Voyager CEO Steve Ehrlich (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Three Arrows Capital Files for Bankruptcy in New York Tied to British Virgin Islands Proceeding

A British Virgin Islands court ordered Three Arrows' BVI branch into liquidation earlier this week.

Su Zhu of Three Arrows Capital (CoinDesk)

Finance

Hxro Begins Testing Crypto Derivatives Trading Platform on Solana

Trading will be restricted to dummy collateral as the developers stress test their network.

Hxro's institutional backers are also participants in the network. (Dan Gunsberg)