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.

Danny Nelson

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Tech

Lily Liu: Solana’s Powerhouse Ambassador

Solana Foundation’s President may be the busiest person in crypto and one of the smartest.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Finance

Pump.Fun: Solana’s Memecoin Juggernaut

The site cemented Solana as the number-one place to launch and trade brand-new memecoins, for better and worse.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Tech

Ansem: The Memecoin King

He trades. He tweets. He fights. He’s the consummate crypto trader-influencer. Danny Nelson spent a day with Ansem as he prepared to meet Bitboy.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Tech

Dev's Defection Highlights Ethereum's Growing Solana Problem

"There's just so much more possibility and potential energy in Solana," Max Resnick told CoinDesk after quitting his Consensys job for a job at Anza.

A Solana booth at ethDenver (Danny Nelson)

News Analysis

Did Hawk Tuah Crypto Debacle Eclipse Bitcoin's $100K Moment?

BTC's big milestone captured global headlines. So why were my friends more interested in Hawk Tuah coin?

Hawk Tuah meme star Haliey Welch broke through in a way BTC at $100,000 did not

Policy

Memecoin Factory Pump.Fun Bans U.K. Crypto Traders

Earlier this week, the U.K.'s main financial regulator warned Pump.fun was operating without permission.

Pump.fun website

Finance

Suilend Plots New Crypto-Finance Services on Sui After $6 Million Raise

The Sui blockchain hasn't yet catapulted into bull-market talk. But its DeFi ecosystem is trending up, creating an opening for one of its biggest protocols.

Stacks of coins

Finance

Chainalysis Taps Founder Jonathan Levin as CEO

The crypto analytics company's former leader, Michael Gronager, went on leave in late September.

Chainalyis CEO Jonathan Levin

Finance

Trump's Crypto Project Gets $30M Investment From Justin Sun

The investment by Sun, best known for creating the TRON blockchain, comes after World Liberty Financial saw slow initial sales of its WLFI token.

Justin Sun standing beside a banana taped to a wall.

Finance

Coinbase App Gets Left Behind as Memecoin Craze Drives Traders On-Chain

Phantom, a crypto wallet with a steeper learning curve, is ahead of exchange giant Coinbase in the Apple App Store rankings.

The newly popular Phantom wallet (CoinDesk)