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

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)

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)