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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Tech

Mango DAO Embraces SOL, Rejects BTC With $1M Treasury Investment

The governing body behind Solana’s Mango Markets overwhelmingly rejected calls to invest even a sliver of its nearly $700 million treasury in bitcoin.

Sliced mango served up on a table (Desirae Hayes-Vitor/Unsplash)

Policy

Crypto PAC Nets $400K in February From BlockFi CEO, CNBC Contributor and More

Another wave of crypto executives contributed to GMI PAC last month as midterm elections approached.

Jasmine Crockett's recent TV spot was paid for by the Web3 Forward PAC. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Blockchain.com Acquires Altonomy’s OTC Desk

Blockchain.com confirmed the deal to CoinDesk. It significantly expands the exchange’s crypto OTC network, especially in the altcoin space.

(John Parra/Getty Images for Blockchain.com Miami Padel Open)

Finance

Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Investing in Crypto Fund: Sources

It’s the first signal to date the world’s largest hedge fund is taking crypto seriously with its own money.

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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.

(Shutterstock)

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)