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

ArDrive Raises $17M to Make Arweave’s Data Storage Blockchain More Usable

The file storage app wants “AR.IO” to host a network of decentralized access points for the Arweave permaweb.

(Kate McLean/Unsplash)

Finance

Why Charles Schwab Is Prepping Its First Crypto Product

The financial services giant follows BlackRock, Fidelity and other big-name firms that capitulated on digital assets.

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Policy

MetaMask, Infura Block ‘Certain Areas’ Amid Crypto Sanctions Fury

The two pillars of the Ethereum ecosystem did not say which areas were under blockade.

Fox (Getty)

Finance

Notifi Is Latest Startup Trying to Crack Web 3’s Push Notification Problem

With $2.5 million in funding from Race Capital and others, CEO Paul Kim wants to give DeFi degens better tools for minding their bags.

(Jonas Leupe/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

CryptoPunk NFT Is Latest Donation to Ukraine’s $33M Campaign

The sought-after NFT could be worth $200,000 according to some estimates.

A screenshot of Crypto Punk #5364 (OpenSea)

Policy

Ukraine Mounts Effort to Surveil Russian Politicians’ Crypto Wallets

Digital Minister Mykhailo Fedorov wants to get ahead of would-be sanctions evaders.

Soldiers outside a military base in Ukraine in 2014. European countries are considering removing Russia from the SWIFT interbank communications network after it invaded Ukraine in late February. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Policy

IRA Financial 'Swatted' at Time of $36M Crypto Hack, Police Officer Tells Victim

The detail adds another layer of intrigue to the seemingly inexplicable hack of IRA Financial Trust, an institutional partner of the Gemini exchange.

(FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin)

Finance

Plenty of Money and No One to Pay: Crypto Teams at ETHDenver Face Hiring Crunch

Recruiters at ETHDenver say a shortage of developer talent is inflating salaries and brewing up competition in the industry building Web 3.

(Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)