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

US Treasury Official Warns Crypto Industry to Proactively Sanction 'Problematic' Wallets

FinCEN Associate Director Alessio Evangelista said crypto service providers shouldn't wait for the government to designate a wallet if it's being used for illicit activity.

FinCEN Associate Director Alessio Evangelista (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

FTX US Debuts Stock Trading in Push for Bigger Slice of US Retail Pie

Brokerage accounts can be funded with the stablecoin USDC, the exchange said.

FTX US President Brett Harrison (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Chainalysis Reveals ‘Storyline’ Product to Follow the Money in Crypto Crime

“You have an entire investigation that tells the entire story of what happened,” Chief Scientist Jacob Illum said.

Chainalysis Chief Scientist Jacob Illum speaks at the tracking firm's LINKS conference. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Oasis Pro Raises $27M for Crypto Securities Trading Platform

CEO Pat LaVecchia, a former MakerDAO compliance adviser, said Oasis Pro is in the “early stages” of integrating with DeFi platforms.

Oasis Pro Markets CEO Pat LaVecchia (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Kwon Proposes Forking Terra, Nixing UST Stablecoin in ‘Revival Plan 2’

“$UST peg failure is Terra’s DAO hack moment,” the Terraform Labs CEO wrote, “a chance to rise up anew from the ashes.”

Terra's advertisement displayed at the ballpark of Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals (Danny Nelson)

Finance

At Nationals Ballpark, Terra’s Bad Week Never Happened

Terra’s $38 million Nationals sponsorship hasn’t made an impact on “Terra Club” workers and fans.

The Terra logo inside the luxury club at Nationals Park. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Terra Validators Halt Blockchain for Second Time to Plot Next Steps

The blockchain was halted earlier Thursday after the governance token LUNA fell in price.

Lunar eclipse (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Finance

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Buys 7.6% Stake in Robinhood

He bought 56 million shares of the popular trading app on May 2.

Sam Bankman-Fried speaks at Crypto Bahamas 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Chainalysis Raises $170M at $8.6B Valuation

The crypto sleuthing firm says its tools monitor $1 trillion worth of transactions every month.

Chainalysis co-founder Jonathan Levin speaks at Crypto Bahamas 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk archives)

Tech

UST’s Do Kwon Was Behind Earlier Failed Stablecoin, Ex-Terra Colleagues Say

Basis Cash, an algorithmic stablecoin project founded by the anonymous “Rick” and “Morty” in 2020, was actually the work of Terraform Labs employees.

Do Kwon (Terraforms Labs, modified by CoinDesk)