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

Solana Commits $100M to Support South Korean Crypto Projects

The fund, created by Solana Ventures and the Solana Foundation, will focus on virtual gaming and will invest in NFT and DeFi projects.

GameFi skeptics say that these games are not fun. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)

Finance

IRA Financial Sues Gemini Over $37M Crypto Heist

The lawsuit corroborates earlier reporting that hackers deployed a police SWAT team as “a ruse to distract IRA employees” on the day of the attack.

(Jason Pofahl/Unsplash)

Finance

Apifiny Courts Quant Traders With Crypto Code Library

The Apifiny Algo release comes as the trading platform inches toward a public listing.

Apifiny's employees in a photo from 2020.

Technology

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)

Technology

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)