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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Finance

The TIE Valued at $100M as Data Service Courts Institutional Crypto

The Bloomberg Terminal-esque product raised $9 million in strategic funding.

(Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Tech

Parallel Finance Launches DeFi ‘Super App’ for Polkadot Crypto Ecosystem

The lending protocol, with $500 million in TVL, is making a play for market dominance.

An installation by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, after whom Polkadot's canary network is named. (Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)

Finance

Coinbase Adds Solana Tokens to Self-Custody Wallet in Non-EVM First

But don’t try out Solana-based DeFi just yet. Coinbase Wallet can’t yet plug into Solana dapps.

(Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Trader Dexterity Capital Launches Token Consulting, Market-Making Arm

DCLiquidity aims to guide crypto founders through their project’s earliest days.

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Policy

Ukraine Partners With FTX, Everstake to Launch New Crypto Donation Website

FTX is converting crypto contributions to Ukraine’s war effort into fiat for deposit at the National Bank of Ukraine.

Ukrainian flag patch affixed to flak vest in Odessa, Ukraine. (Scott Peterson/Getty Images)

Finance

Goldman Sachs Offering ETH Fund to Clients Through Galaxy Digital

The bank is introducing crypto-curious clients to Galaxy’s Institutional Ethereum Fund, SEC documents show.

(Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto.com Tells Loan Customers in 'Excluded' Countries to Repay by March 15

Customers in “excluded jurisdictions” must close their loans before Crypto.com does it for them.

(Dim Hou/Unsplash)

Finance

Coinbase Touts Blacklist of 25K Russia-Linked Addresses Allegedly Tied to Illicit Activity

Combating accusations that crypto is an ideal sanctions evasion tool, Coinbase said it has long taken “proactive” steps to root out criminally tied Russians.

Coinbase share were rallying Friday. (Photo illustration by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Industry’s Sanctions Woes on Full Display in MetaMask’s Venezuela Hiccup

MetaMask and Infura raised Crypto Twitter’s ire after accidentally blocking some users from its service to comply with new U.S. sanctions.

Employees work on computers at the ConsenSys office in Brooklyn on Thursday, March 29, 2018. (Holly Pickett/Bloomberg via Getty Images)