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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Policy

Kenya Prepares to Legalize Cryptocurrencies in Policy Shift: Report

Kenya's move represents a significant policy shift from their previous warnings about the crypto industry.

Nairobi, Kenya (Amani Nation/Unsplash)

Policy

3 Russians Face Money Laundering Charges Over Mixing Services: DOJ

Russian nationals have been charged with crimes for allegedly running the crypto mixing services Blender.io and Sinbad.io used by North Korean hackers.

Sinbad's website says it was seized by the FBI alongside the Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service and Finnish National Bureau of Investigation. (Sinbad.io)

Tech

Babylon Labs Brings New Momentum to Bitcoin ZK Tech Through Bridge to Cosmos Chains

Babylon, developer of the largest BTC staking protocol, is teaming up with Bitcoin developers Fiamma to build a trust-minimized bridge using BitVM2

Bridge (Charlie Green/Unsplash)

Finance

It’s Hard to Fund Midsize Green Assets. This Tokenization Startup Wants to Change That

Plural Energy is already tokenizing renewable energy projects; it wants these assets to permeate through the crypto ecosystem.

Adam Silver (Plural Energy)

Finance

Solana Pushes Validators to Test Early 'Firedancer' Upgrade

The upgrade from Jump Crypto could drastically boost transaction throughput, helping Solana support legacy financial markets.

Jump Chief Science Officer Kevin Bowers (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Haliey Welch 'Fully Cooperating' With Lawyers Suing Over Failed HAWK Crypto

Hawk Tuah girl broke days of silence to say she wants to hold those responsible to account.

Haliey Welch issues statement on HAWK memecoin (Hawk Token Page/Overhere)

Finance

Coinbase Says It Nixed wBTC Because Justin Sun Posed 'Unacceptable Risk'

BiT Global, issuer of the "wrapped bitcoin" token, "refused" to answer Coinbase's questions about Sun's involvement, the exchange said in a court filing.

Tron Founder Justin Sun. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. Shuts Down North Korean Crypto Money Laundering Network

OFAC says a front company in the UAE had been converting crypto into cash for North Korea.

North Korea, Kim Jong Un

Finance

Pudgy Penguins PENGU Token Debuts at $2.3B Market Cap

$90 million worth of PENGU has traded in its first hour of release.

Image of several Pudgy Penguin NFTs (Pudgy Penguins)