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

This Behind-the-Scenes Crypto Firm Saw 2,000% Account Growth in 2021

Rising demand for APIs helped Prime Trust grow its footprint across crypto, said CFO Rodrigo Vicuna.

(Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Opera Eyes Polygon for Next Mobile Wallet Integration

The Norwegian browser developer plans to support transactions in Polygon’s MATIC from Q1 2022.

From a technical standpoint, the integration marks an intriguing if obscure milestone for Opera. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Finance

Decentralized Rendering Engine Raises $30M as Metaverse Graphics Go Big

Multicoin, Alameda and the Solana Foundation are backing Render Network’s vision for a decentralized alternative to Pixar’s massive rendering farms.

(Souro Souvik/Unsplash)

Finance

Ivan on Tech’s Crypto Company Pitches Metaverse Devs on Software Toolkit

Moralis is out with a new “Metaverse SDK” that the company says cuts down on developer time.

(julien Tromeur/Unsplash)

Policy

Financial Stability Group Warns of Stablecoin, DeFi Risks in Annual Report

Top U.S. financial system regulators highlighted crypto’s growing risk in their annual stability annual report.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (right) chairs the FSOC, which also includes Fed Chair Jerome Powell (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Finance

Binance.US Hires Intel’s Compliance Chief Majalya

Sidney Majalya will report directly to CEO Brian Shroder.

(Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Connectivity Startup GIANT Raises $5M From CoinFund

CoinFund, Gumi and others are backing GIANT’s plans to tokenize cellular bandwidth.

GIANT founders (left to right) Merijn Terheggen, Suruchi Gupta and Jinesh Doshi. (GIANT)

Finance

Valkyrie Launches ETF to Track Bitcoin Balance Sheet Stocks

Long on MicroStrategy, the actively managed ETF brings another crypto-tinted product to Wall Street’s ranks.

(Mark Peterson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Finance

Galaxy, Bloomberg Debut Solana Fund for Institutional Investors

Last month’s debut of a SOL price index set the stage for this fund’s launch.

Galaxy founder Mike Novogratz (Amir Hamja/Bloomberg via Getty Images)