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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Policy

Monero’s Ricardo ‘Fluffypony’ Spagni to Surrender to US Marshals on July 5

The former privacy coin maintainer faces extradition to South Africa where he faces fraud charges.

Riccardo Spagni (CoinDesk archives)

Policy

CFTC Charges South African Bitcoin Club Mirror Trading International With $1.7B Fraud

MTI’s self-described CEO was recently detained in Brazil on an Interpol warrant, the regulator said.

(Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock)

Finance

Genesis Faces ‘Hundreds of Millions’ in Losses as 3AC Exposure Swamps Crypto Lenders: Sources

The DCG-owned trading colossus is said to have suffered nine-figure losses partly through exposure to Three Arrows Capital and Babel Finance.

Genesis Trading Michael Moro at the Crypto Bahamas event in April 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Solana’s Macalinao Brothers Double Down on Crypto Venture Fund

Crypto VCs told CoinDesk that building projects and investing in them is a tricky mix.

Ian Macalinao is one half of the Saber brothers. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Solana’s Biggest DeFi Lender Almost Got Rekt. Then Binance Stepped In

Solend’s whale crisis rattled depositors and threatened to crash Solana. Can the lending protocol recover?

(State Library of New South Wales/Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

FTX in Talks to Acquire Part of BlockFi: Report

FTX previously extended a $250 million emergency line of credit to the struggling crypto lender earlier this week.

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Finance

Solana Labs Is Building a Web3 Mobile Phone

The backers of the Solana blockchain said the devices will cost around $1,000 and be available for delivery in early 2023.

Solana's Anatoly Yakovenko at the phone's unveiling event in New York. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase Phasing Out ‘Coinbase Pro’ for ‘Advanced’ Mode in Main App

The crypto exchange will “sunset” the standalone app once known as GDAX later this year.

(Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)