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Danny Nelson

Managing Editor - Data & Tokens

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

DYdX CEO Juliano Fires 35% of Workforce and Promises Pivot

"The company we’ve built is different from the company dYdX must be," said the CEO.

Oct 29, 2024

dYdX founder Antonio Juliano (dYdX)

Finance

Crypto Trading Firm DWF Labs Fires a Partner After Drink-Spiking Allegations

An X account posted that on Oct. 24 a partner at DWF drugged her at a bar — and was caught on camera doing it

Oct 29, 2024

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Finance

Solana's Crypto-Governance Hub Realms Is Under New Management

The project is spinning out of Solana Labs and its new leaders want to turn a profit.

Oct 22, 2024

Scenes from Solana's Miami Hacker House in April 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Orbs Can Now be Summoned 'Like a Pizza', Say Worldcoin Execs

The project will now be know simply as "World" and plans to release "Orb 2.0," the executives said during a media event.

Oct 17, 2024

Worldcoin's iris-scanning technology is being questioned by regulators (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

FBI Arrests Alleged SEC Hacker Linked to Fake Tweet Saying Bitcoin ETFs Were Approved

Eric Council Jr. allegedly hijacked the SEC's X account and then handed control to unnamed co-conspirators, whose fake post drove up bitcoin's price.

Oct 17, 2024

SEC office (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto-Real Estate's USDR Misled Investors as Tangible Brothers Made Millions

The 2023 crash of Tangible's USDR stablecoin is infamous in crypto circles. But a CoinDesk investigation reveals there's another story to be told.

Oct 16, 2024

Tangible CEO Jagpal Singh (Photo illustration by Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk based on images from Tangible and Images Money)

Finance

Crypto Winter-Era Seed Startups Mostly Persist Despite Tumult and Crisis

But fundraising difficulties and product-market-fit issues may imperil their future, according to a report from Lattice VC.

Oct 1, 2024

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Policy

Mango Markets Mulls CFTC Settlement Over Crypto Trading Violations

The legal pain train continues for Solana's once-mighty crypto derivatives exchange.

Sep 23, 2024

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission would be granted far-reaching authority over crypto trading and regulation in a new Senate bill. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Tech

Jump's 'Frankendancer' Validator Client Is Live on Solana Mainnet

The ramshackle validator client is a prelude to Jump's highly anticipated Firedancer software.

Sep 20, 2024

Jump Chief Science Officer Kevin Bowers (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

SocGen's Crypto Unit Takes Euro Stablecoin to Solana After Flopping on Ethereum

The French financial services firm is betting on Solana's faster and cheaper attributes.

Sep 20, 2024

Societe Generale (Shutterstock)
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