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.

Danny Nelson

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Markets

VanEck Adds to ETF Applications With Ether Futures Filing

The Ethereum Strategy ETF would invest in ETH futures contracts and an array of other indirect ether products.

Gabor Gurbacs, director of digital-asset strategy at VanEck

Tech

DeFi-Powered Social Token Site Rally Submits Plan to Decentralize Itself

The proposed road map would see the "creator coin" platform split up into a venture studio, a DAO, a Swiss non-profit and more.

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Policy

Bitcoin Mixing CEO Harmon Pleads Guilty to US Money-Laundering Charge

The case may set a precedent for bitcoin mixing services.

Larry Harmon

Finance

Goldman, Citadel Securities, Even Tennessee's Treasury Among Coinbase COIN Whales

New SEC filings show which institutions are chasing the crypto economy's upside with multimillion-dollar bets on COIN.

Coinbase went public on the Nasdaq in April 2021.

Finance

US Mortgage Lender UWM Plans to Accept Bitcoin Payments

The Michigan-based company hopes to become the first nationwide mortgage lender to accept cryptocurrency.

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Finance

Steve Aoki Has Secured Funding to Pilot His NFT TV Show

The crypto-forward DJ is creating a “proper pilot” episode of his experimental NFT TV show, “Dominion X.”

Steve Aoki performs during Lollapalooza at Grant Park on July 29, 2021, in Chicago.

Policy

IRS, in Boon to Crypto, Will Reportedly Ignore How Bill Defines Broker; Bitcoin Rises

Citing an unnamed official, Bloomberg said Treasury won’t go after crypto firms that don’t meet the tax code’s definitions of a “broker.”

The seal of the U.S. Treasury Department.

Finance

TaxBit Raises $130M Series B at $1.33B Valuation

It's the second major funding round for the tax software firm this year.

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

Finance

Dune Analytics, Home of DIY Data Dashboards, Raises $8M in USV-Led Series A

Dune lets anyone with on-chain know-how share their data creations with the world.

A DeFi degen riding a mountain of Dune Analytics data