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

Tezos-Based NFT Platform OneOf Inks Pitbull to Multiyear Deal

Mr. 305 is the latest celebrity to partner with a crypto company in a year full of high-flying promoters.

Pitbull performs on Oct. 9, 2021 in Charlotte, N.C. (Jeff Hahne/Getty Images)

Finance

Hxro Raises $34M on Promise of Derivatives Trading Infrastructure for Solana

TradFi stalwart Susquehanna International Group and DeFi upstart Jump Crypto co-led the network’s latest token round.

(Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Finance

ConstitutionDAO to Shut Down, Nearly 50% of Funds Already Returned

Many who contributed small amounts of ETH will have little but a hefty gas bill to show for it.

Jeff Graber took the subway from Brooklyn to get close to the action at Sotheby's. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

New Crypto Connectivity Startup Eyes Telecom Partnerships

The founder of GIANT says the protocol will essentially tokenize cellular bandwidth.

Fabricio Gonçalves/Flickr/modified by CoinDesk

Tech

ConstitutionDAO Outbid for First Printing of America’s Founding Document in Sotheby’s Auction

The group’s $40+ million in ETH wasn’t enough to seal the deal.

Jeff Graber took the subway from Brooklyn to get close to the action at Sotheby's. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Blockchain Backend Firm Alchemy Moves to Bring NFTs to a Wider Audience

The influential blockchain infrastructure company is rolling out an API that links NFTs with ever more platforms.

Alchemy staffers pose for a team photo.

Finance

Cypher Raises $2.1M for Traditional Futures Market on Solana

The protocol wants to become an influential outpost for pre-launch price discovery.

(Tim Boyle/Bloomberg via Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

ConsenSys Plots Massive Expansion Following $200M Fundraising

“There’s a war for talent going on,” the Ethereum builder’s chief strategy officer said.

Joseph Lubin, a co-founder of Ethereum and the CEO of ConsenSys, speaks at SXSW 2019.