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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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)

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)