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

Ranger Finance Targets Crypto Perps Traders of 'Size' on Solana

Solana's first crypto perpetuals aggregators service wants to compete with market leader Hyperliquid.

whaling

Finance

Stablecoin Trading Startup Perena Tries Its Luck on Solana

Perena wants to be the "neutral layer" bringing liquidity to stablecoin issuers.

Anna Yuan, founder of Perena (Perena)

Finance

Power-Hungry AI Fuels Crypto VC's Bet on Tokenized Uranium Startup

Portal Ventures wrote the lead check in Uranium Digital's $1.7 million round.

Diablo Canyon power plant (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Finance

Magic Eden's $5B Token Airdrop Raises Crypto Wallet Security Questions

To claim aidrops, users had to download Magic Eden's wallet, a highly atypical process that industry insiders said threatened to breach security best practices.

Magic Eden CEO Jack Lu at Solana Breakpoint 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Lily Liu: Solana’s Powerhouse Ambassador

Solana Foundation’s President may be the busiest person in crypto and one of the smartest.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Finance

Pump.Fun: Solana’s Memecoin Juggernaut

The site cemented Solana as the number-one place to launch and trade brand-new memecoins, for better and worse.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Tech

Ansem: The Memecoin King

He trades. He tweets. He fights. He’s the consummate crypto trader-influencer. Danny Nelson spent a day with Ansem as he prepared to meet Bitboy.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Tech

Dev's Defection Highlights Ethereum's Growing Solana Problem

"There's just so much more possibility and potential energy in Solana," Max Resnick told CoinDesk after quitting his Consensys job for a job at Anza.

A Solana booth at ethDenver (Danny Nelson)

News Analysis

Did Hawk Tuah Crypto Debacle Eclipse Bitcoin's $100K Moment?

BTC's big milestone captured global headlines. So why were my friends more interested in Hawk Tuah coin?

Hawk Tuah meme star Haliey Welch broke through in a way BTC at $100,000 did not

Policy

Memecoin Factory Pump.Fun Bans U.K. Crypto Traders

Earlier this week, the U.K.'s main financial regulator warned Pump.fun was operating without permission.

Pump.fun website