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

Suilend Plots New Crypto-Finance Services on Sui After $6 Million Raise

The Sui blockchain hasn't yet catapulted into bull-market talk. But its DeFi ecosystem is trending up, creating an opening for one of its biggest protocols.

Stacks of coins

Finance

Chainalysis Taps Founder Jonathan Levin as CEO

The crypto analytics company's former leader, Michael Gronager, went on leave in late September.

Chainalyis CEO Jonathan Levin

Finance

Trump's Crypto Project Gets $30M Investment From Justin Sun

The investment by Sun, best known for creating the TRON blockchain, comes after World Liberty Financial saw slow initial sales of its WLFI token.

Justin Sun standing beside a banana taped to a wall.

Finance

Coinbase App Gets Left Behind as Memecoin Craze Drives Traders On-Chain

Phantom, a crypto wallet with a steeper learning curve, is ahead of exchange giant Coinbase in the Apple App Store rankings.

The newly popular Phantom wallet (CoinDesk)

Policy

Polymarket Blocks French Traders Amid Gambling Inquiry

The prediction market juggernaut is under investigation in the country.

Shayne Coplan, CEO, Polymarket, speaks at Consensus 2024. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk).

Policy

Bitwise Joins Mounting Race for Solana ETF

Donald Trump's election win may be pressing fast-forward on once unheard-of propositions.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan (Suzanne Cordiero/CoinDesk/Shutterstock)

Finance

Jito Token Holders Slated for Payday Under TipRouter Proposal

A shakeup to Jito's economic rails is in the works.

Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder (Danny Nelson)

Finance

Juiced USDS Yields Woo Solana Traders to Sky's Stablecoin

Sky's Solana rollout has been a smashing success. Will it last?

(Ravi Sharma/Unsplash)

Markets

Dueling 'Eliza' AI Tokens Boom and Zoom in Frenzied Trading

Power and profits took center stage in a confusing trading session as two tokens with the same name battled for dominance.

robot hand holding dollar bills

Tech

‘Just Don’t Break’ Bitcoin: Devs Debate Tech Upgrades to Top Crypto

The bitcoiners gathered at OP_Next were decidedly in favor of progress – but not too much progress, and certainly not too fast.

Will Foxley opens OP_NEXT (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)