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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Finance

Opera’s Browser Wallet to Support Solana in Early 2022

The browser may beat Brave to the punch.

Opera

Finance

Play-to-Earn Platform Rainmaker Nabs $6.5M Seed Round

CoinFund and others are backing Rainmaker’s plans to ease access to hundreds of play-to-earn crypto games.

(Madhu Shesharam/Unsplash)

Tech

Solana Validators, Engineers Grapple With Blockchain Slowdown on Public Call

After a bout of Thursday morning congestion, members of the high-speed blockchain’s validator community voiced concerns about the network’s reliability.

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

Finance

Burrata Raises $7.75M From Stripe, Variant to Build Identity Data Bridge

Coming out of stealth mode, the startup plans to create a compliance toolkit that makes KYC a more seamless developer experience.

(Klara Kulikova/Unsplash)

Tech

Index Coop Isn’t Worried About Enso’s ‘Vampire Attack’

The crypto index-fund builder raised another $2.25 million from big-name backers even before a competing protocol struck.

Garlic fends off vampires. (team voyas on Unsplash)

Finance

Google Sues to Shutter Cryptojacking Botnet That Infected 1M+ Computers

The botnet used the Bitcoin blockchain to evade cybersecurity officials and remain online, Google alleged.

Google (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Finance

TRM Labs Raises $60M as Visa, Amex Play Catch-Up on Crypto Tracking

After Mastercard bought CipherTrace in September, American Express and Visa are throwing their weight behind TRM.

(Alina Grubnyak/Unsplash)

Finance

FTX.US Adds Ethereum Collectibles to NFT Marketplace

The rollout comes about a month after the exchange’s largely underwhelming Solana-based NFT debut.

(Bored Ape Yacht Club, modified by CoinDesk)