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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Markets

JPMorgan Launches In-House Bitcoin Fund for Private Bank Clients

The mega-bank has started pitching Private Bank clients on a passive bitcoin fund in partnership with NYDIG.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon

Markets

Blockchain Developer Toolkit Alchemy Adds High-Profile Angels to $80M Series B

Revenues for the blockchain infrastructure company have grown more than tenfold since it announced the series B in April.

Left to right: Joe Lau, Alchemy co-founder, and chief technology officer; Nikil Viswanathan, Alchemy co-founder and CEO; John Hennessy, Google chairman and Alchemy investor

Markets

Bitwise Launches Crypto Funds for Aave and Uniswap

The $1 billion digital assets manager said Wall Street-type clients are demanding more exposure to DeFi's biggest names.

Bitwise celebrates its listing of the BITQ "Industry Innovators" index.

Markets

Senator Toomey Calls Text of Current Crypto Tax Proposal ‘Unworkable’

The Pennsylvania Republican said the definition of a broker is too broad and would affect bitcoin miners, which should be exempt.

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.)

Markets

NCR to Buy LibertyX to Add Digital-Currency Software to Digital Wallet, Mobile Apps

The acquisition will make LibertyX capabilities available to banks, restaurants and retailers.

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Policy

New Infrastructure Bill Looks to Raise $30B Through Crypto Taxes

The draft language could mean a number of individuals interacting with crypto may have to start reporting their transactions.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), one of the lead negotiators on the bipartisan Senate infrastructure deal.

Markets

US Marshals Service Chooses Anchorage Digital for Custody of Seized Digital Assets

Anchorage Digital said it will also provide “such activities as accounting, customer management, audit compliance and managing blockchain forks.”

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Finance

Prime Trust Raises $64M to Scale Fintech Infrastructure Biz

The crypto custody firm is planning an “aggressive” hiring campaign to extend its reach into the world of fintech

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Finance

Luxor Technologies Launches Index of Crypto Mining Stocks

The crypto mining and data firm’s new index product seeks to capture public-market sentiment on the firms pumping out new coins.

Luxor Technologies CEO Nick Hansen (left) and VP of Business Development Alex Brammer