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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Tech

ETH Staking Startup ssv.network Raises $10M as Ethereum ‘Merge’ Inches Closer

Project leads say they want to “mitigate” the biggest vulnerabilities in centralized staking.

(Jan Huber/Unsplash)

Finance

Web 3 Infrastructure Giant Alchemy Tops $10B Valuation in $200M Funding Round

A key player behind decentralized applications on Ethereum and other chains continues to swell.

Alchemy co-founder and CEO Nikil Viswanathan (Pantera/CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Aleo Blockchain Raises $200M for Privacy-Minded DeFi

The lovechild of Ethereum programmability and Zcash privacy is getting a funding boost from SoftBank, Tiger Global and others.

(H. Armstrong Roberts/Getty Images)

Finance

Kraken Says Proof-of-Reserves Audit Shows $19B in Bitcoin and Ether

Crypto firms are racing to build credibility as the industry spotlight turns to proving reserves.

(Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

PsyOptions Acquires Tap Finance for Undisclosed Sum

Two projects become one as a Solana options shop looks to expand its offerings.

(Getty Images)

Finance

‘Pay’ Product Looks to Boost Stablecoin Payments on Solana

Can Solana Labs’ open-source payment plug-in pick up where the Bitcoin white paper left off?

Solana's Breakpoint came at the market's previous zenith (Zack Seward/CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase Lists Solana-Based Project Tokens for First Time

The listing of non-Ethereum ORCA and FIDA confirms a CoinDesk scoop.

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

Finance

Solana Wallet Phantom Raises $109M to Rival MetaMask

CEO Brandon Millman has his sights set on the Ethereum staple after hitting a $1.2 billion valuation in his firm’s latest funding round.

Phantom co-founders (left to right) Chris Kalani, Francesco Agosti and Brandon Millman.

Layer 2

Mastercard’s CipherTrace Used ‘Honeypots’ to Gather Crypto Wallet Intel

In cybersecurity the term “honeypot” refers to a trap for hackers. But what does it mean in the context of on-chain analytics? This story is part of CoinDesk’s Privacy Week series.

(Melody Wang for CoinDesk)