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

Crypto Derivatives Platform dYdX Raises $65M in Paradigm-Led Series C

The San Francisco-based DEX builder has processed $2.2 billion in trades and is now “hugely profitable.”

Members of the dYdX team

Finance

MicroStrategy Raises $500M From Bond Sale to Buy More Bitcoin

The announcement comes with news of a new bitcoin-holding subsidiary, MacroStrategy LLC.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor walks through the Bitcoin 2021 convention.

Markets

Tesla Will Resume Taking Bitcoin as Payment Once Miners Go 50% Green, Musk Says

The comments provide a first benchmark for reinstating bitcoin payments at Tesla.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Finance

Arrington Capital Launches $100M Algorand Ecosystem Fund

The TechCrunch founder’s second crypto fund will bet on Algorand projects and coins. But don’t think the firm is abandoning XRP.

Michael Arrington, founder of the TechCrunch blog.

Markets

Invesco Plans Two Crypto-Focused ETFs

Atlanta-based Invesco is an investment management firm with $1.5 trillion in assets.

Invesco

Policy

Volcano-Powered Bitcoin Mining Goes From Twitter Idea to State Policy in El Salvador

President Nayib Bukele is moving on multiple fronts to make El Salvador an unlikely bitcoin mecca.

A sign outside the Ahuachapán Geothermal Power Plant in El Salvador.

Finance

Solana Labs Raises $314M in Token Sale Led by A16z, Polychain

It's one of the largest token sales in recent memory.

Solana COO Raj Gokal, left, and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko

Policy

New York State Senate Approves Watered-Down Bill Targeting Bitcoin Mining Emissions

The bill, which originally sought to freeze all “cryptocurrency mining centers” in New York for up to three years, heads to the Assembly with a more tailored focus.

The New York State Capitol building