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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Tech

The Story of DESK: How CoinDesk Built Its Social Token

CoinDesk’s Consensus-focused tech experiment involved a litany of third parties to help make DESK sing.

Consensus Festival 2022 Highlights

Finance

Coinbase’s Abrupt Hiring Reversal Blindsided Would-Be Employees

Coinbase announced it would rescind offers, surprising recruits who told CoinDesk they believed their new roles would be safe.

Brian Armstrong in 2019  (Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

Tech

Solana Halted by Bug Linked to Certain Cold Storage Transactions

Validators restarted the network after four hours of downtime by disabling the so-called “durable nonce transactions” that have found favor among some exchanges.

Solana Hacker House en Miami, abril del 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Inside Madison Cawthorn's $150K Crypto Bet: Here's the Wallet Under Ethics Investigation

The North Carolina firebrand is under investigation for allegedly “pumping and dumping” the “Let’s Go Brandon” meme coin. CoinDesk found his Ethereum wallet.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) speaks before a rally for former U.S. President Donald Trump in April. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

Finance

Golf Brand Callaway Joins LinksDAO as Equity Investor, ‘Strategic Partner’

The DAO that wants to buy a golf course is adding a big name to its cap table.

(Scott Halleran/Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Asset Managers Chase Yield With New Investment Products

A cocktail of high inflation and cash-hungry crypto firms are prompting fund issuers like Bitwise and 21Shares to get creative.

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan

Policy

Madison Cawthorn Hit With US House Ethics Investigation Over Crypto Promotion

The probe, announced Monday, appears to be related to the “Let’s Go Brandon” meme coin.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) speaks during a press conference on Nov. 1, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

Policy

Fed Survey: 12% of US Adults Held Crypto in 2021

It marks crypto’s first appearance in the central bank’s “Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households” survey.

(Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)