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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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.

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Finance

Prime Trust Raises $107M With Eyes on Crypto IRA, Tokenized Asset Products

The Las Vegas company is going into build mode, bear market be damned.

The Prime Trust booth at Consensus 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Uniswap Labs Acquires NFT Startup Genie

The company behind Ethereum's popular DeFi trading hub plans to support the buying and selling of NFTs.

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Finance

Solend’s Whale Liquidation Crisis Prompts Second Vote to Reverse ‘Emergency Powers’

The Solana-based borrowing and lending service is going back to the ballot box.

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Tech

Solana DeFi Platform Votes to Control Whale Account in Bid to Avoid Liquidation 'Chaos'

Solend users voted to "grant emergency power to Solend Labs to temporarily take over the whale's account."

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

Finance

BlockFi Liquidated Three Arrows Capital: Report

CEO Zac Prince tweeted that the crypto lender “exercised our best business judgment.”

Posiciones cortas de ether registraron liquidaciones de $200 millones. (deepblue4you/Getty images)

Finance

Crypto Lender Celsius Hires Restructuring Attorneys, WSJ Reports

Celsius announced early Monday it would pause withdrawals along with its swap and transfer products, citing "extreme market conditions."

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