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.

Danny Nelson

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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.

DraftKings

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

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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