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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Policy

Texas Securities Regulator Adds Celsius to Its Crypto Lending Crosshairs

Texas has already issued a similar warning to BlockFi.

Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky

Finance

Franklin Templeton Seeks $20M for First Blockchain Venture Fund

The $1.5 trillion asset manager is also seeking to hire engineers for a tokenized asset department.

(Adam Nir/Unsplash)

Markets

Solana Mainnet Back Online After Day in the Dark

Engineers succeed in restoring service across Solana’s network of node-runners after the system was in the dark for almost 20 hours.

(Solanabeach.io)

Markets

Solana Validators Plan Network ‘Restart’ as Outage Continues

Solana developers have decided to restart the network after over seven hours of downtime.

(Danny Nelson for CoinDesk)

Finance

BlockFi CEO Wants SEC to Weigh In on Crypto Lending

“We’re not going to decide what box crypto lending belongs in based on what New Jersey does or what Texas does,” Zac Prince said Monday.

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Finance

Pantera Capital’s Latest Crypto Fund Has Raised $369M Since July

The crypto investments firm had $4.7 billion in assets under management in August, new filings show.

Pantera Capital founder and CEO Dan Morehead (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Policy

IRS Makes New Crypto Broker Guidance a ‘Priority’ in 2021-22 Plan

Biden’s Treasury Department is opening another front in its effort to police crypto tax cheats.

The IRS building in Washington, D.C. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

SEC Sets November Deadline for Final Decision on VanEck Bitcoin ETF

Regulators are again postponing a decision on what would be the first U.S. bitcoin ETF.

SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission