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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Finance

Galaxy Digital Hires SIX’s Tim Grant to Lead Europe Expansion

Grant says the business focus will be on Switzerland and Germany, with an influence campaign planned for Europe’s newer crypto bastions.

R3 managing director Tim Grant speaks on a panel hosted by President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in May 2016.

Finance

Solana’s Mango Markets DEX Raises $70M in MNGO Token Sale

At its height, investors had plowed over $500 million in USDC into the trading platform’s 24-hour sale.

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Finance

Neuberger Berman Greenlights Indirect Crypto Investments for Commodities Fund

The $400 billion asset manager is expanding its investments strategy to include bitcoin and ether.

Joseph Amato, president and chief investment officer of Neuberger Berman Group LLC, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview.

Finance

PNC Bank Planning Crypto Offering With Coinbase

A source said PNC, the fifth-largest bank in the U.S., plans to offer crypto investment services to clients.

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Markets

BitMEX Announces $100M CFTC, FinCEN Settlement

BitMEX will pay a $100 million penalty to resolve the charges, the firm announced in a blog post.

Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes

Markets

Crypto Trading Startup FalconX Achieves Unicorn Status With Latest Raise

The Chicago-based trading desk said revenue has grown by 30 times, year over year.

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Finance

DraftKings Charts NFT Long-Game With Marketplace Debut

Tom Brady’s NFT platform, Autograph, is powering the sports betting app’s foray into the world of digital collectibles.

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Tech

'Wormhole' Launches for Connecting DeFi on BSC, Terra and Ethereum to Solana

Wormhole opens a faster (and, developers claim, simpler) route for non-native assets to enter Solana’s bustling DeFi ecosystem.

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Policy

Why US Government Yanked BitGo’s Contract and Gave It to Anchorage

A tale of crypto rivalry, multimillion-dollar contracts, and bureaucratic definitions of “small business.”

US Marshals Auction Off Personal Property