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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Policy

Canada Sanctions 34 Crypto Wallets Tied to Trucker 'Freedom Convoy'

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero and Cardano addresses are all on the list.

Canadian truckers blocked borders and bridges in protest of Canada's vaccine mandate for entrants from the U.S. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Finance

USV, Multicoin Lead $30M Raise for 3Box’s Ceramic Data Network

“Web 3 social” has been an early focus of the data composability project.

(Jessica Ruscello/Unsplash)

Finance

Drained Crypto Accounts at IRA Financial Leave Victims Searching for Answers

Retirement accounts held at Gemini were hit during a Feb. 8 exploit. The crypto IRA firm has yet to say much, but victims estimate millions of dollars were moved.

(Yuri Krupenin/Unsplash)

Finance

BlockFi Moves to Register Lending Product With SEC

The company said Monday it plans to register its controversial high-yield interest account.

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Policy

BlockFi Will Pay $100M in Settlement With SEC, State Regulators Over High-Yield Accounts: Report

The company has been under investigation since at least November over the lending product, which offers yields as high as 9.5%.

BlockFi advertisement in Washington D.C.'s Union Station (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Washington Nationals to ‘Explore’ Terra’s UST Stablecoin in DAO-Approved Partnership Deal

The MLB team’s deal with the Terra network is even bigger than previously reported.

(G Fiume/Getty Images)

Policy

Crypto Analytics Tools 'Wave of the Future, Dude,' Judge Quotes Cult Film in $3.6B Bitcoin Seizure Case

A newly unsealed federal court opinion emphasized the role blockchain analytics played in helping law enforcement agents find and confiscate 94,000 bitcoins stolen from Bitfinex.

Meade and Prettyman Federal Courthouses (AgnosticPreachersKid/Wikimedia Commons)

Policy

Coinbase Files to Form a PAC Ahead of 2022 Midterms

Crypto firms are vying for influence in Washington, D.C.

Alesia Haas, CEO of Coinbase Inc. and chief financial officer of Coinbase Global Inc., speaks at a House Financial Services Committee. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Finance

Terra Wants to Spend $40M on a Mystery Sports Deal. We Think It’s With This MLB Team

A CoinDesk reporter turns internet sleuth to crack the team name Do Kwon won’t identify.

(Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

Policy

US Officials Seize $3.6B in Bitcoin From 2016 Bitfinex Hack

Nearly 120,000 BTC was stolen in the hack.

(Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)