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

Miami Mayor Suarez to Take Next Paycheck in Bitcoin

Francis Suarez, who is up for re-election Tuesday, seemed ready to use Strike’s dollar-to-bitcoin conversion service.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez

Finance

GSR Turns Up DeFi Activity in Strategic Shift

“We just see DeFi overtaking centralized exchanges as a preferred liquidity venue,” Jake Dwyer said.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Finance

That Tungsten Company Is Auctioning Its Largest-Ever Cube as an NFT

Midwest Tungsten Service will take bids on a 14-inch cube via OpenSea.

Midwest tungsten cube (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

RLY Venture Studio Launches With Fresh Backing From Paris Hilton and Marc Andreessen

SuperLayer’s debut comes as Rally community members debate the ecosystem’s decentralization plan.

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 24: Paris Hilton attends The Wallis Delivers: Al Fresco Night presented by The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts  at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on September 24, 2021 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

Finance

‘Crypto AWS’ Alchemy Hits $3.5B Valuation in $250M Round Led by A16z

The venture giant invests in the kinds of companies Alchemy has called clients for years.

Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan

Finance

CoinList Valued at $1.5B as Lending, Staking Join Business Mandate

Following a $100 million funding round, the token sale platform is planning to invest heavily in two of its newer business lines.

(Mathieu Stern/Unsplash)

Finance

Solana-Based Yield Aggregator Tulip Raises $5M

The DeFi app formerly known as SolFarm has over $800 million in TVL.

(Earl Wilcox/Unsplash)

Finance

Direxion Files for Short Bitcoin Futures ETF

Investment firms are getting creative after last week’s watershed bitcoin ETF launch.

SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission