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

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.

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Finance

Solana-Based Yield Aggregator Tulip Raises $5M

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

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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

Finance

Valkyrie Files to Offer Leveraged Bitcoin Futures ETF

One of the only companies with an investable bitcoin ETF is now attempting to lever up.

Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald (CoinDesk TV)

Finance

Solana-Based Perpetual Swaps DEX Drift Protocol Raises $3.8M

Multicoin Capital led the decentralized exchange’s funding round with Jump and Alameda also participating.

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Finance

TaxBit Courts Corporate America With Crypto Accounting Software

BlockFi will be the first customer of TaxBit’s new “Corporate Accounting Suite.”

Left to right: TaxBit co-founders Justin and Austin Woodward

Finance

FTX Raises $420,690,000

It’s a nice Series B-1 for Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange following a $900 million mega-round earlier this year.

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Finance

DCG, Facing Competition From Bitcoin ETFs, Plans to Buy More Grayscale Bitcoin Trust

The crypto conglomerate says it may buy up to $1 billion of subsidiary Grayscale’s flagship product.

DCG founder and CEO Barry Silbert