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.

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Finance

Crypto Valley Exchange Bets 'Smart Clearing' Is DeFi Derivatives' Missing Link

The Arbitrum-based derivatives platform has a new protocol to make its financial pipes more efficient.

Valley

Finance

Bitcoin DeFi Network Arch Finds VC Backer for Early-Stage Projects

Arch Network is working with DPI Capital to write first checks for "pillar" protocols building on the Bitcoin DeFi project.

Bitcoin DeFi Network Arch Finds VC Backer for Early-Stage Projects

Finance

How DeFi 'Defied' Market Carnage as Traders Poured Millions Amid Panic

The DeFi sector showed resilience this week as inflows and volumes increased.

(Mark Basarab/Unsplash)

Tech

RootstockLabs Prepares to Release SDKs for Bitcoin Layer 2s Using BitVMX

Rootstock founder Sergio Lerner sees Bitcoin layers-2s as fundamental to BTC fulfilling its purpose of being "money for the people"

Rootstock founder Sergio Demian Lerner gesticulates and wears a microphone headset. (Bradley Keoun)

Tech

Inside North Korea's Favorite Crypto Laundering Tool: THORChain

Researchers say North Korea used THORChain to launder $1.2 billion following the biggest-ever crypto heist.

THORSwap is a cross-chain decentralized exchange built on THORChain. (Manuel Salinas/Unsplash)

Tech

EigenLayer Finally Ready to Launch Crucial Missing Feature

Slashing could allow the restaking pioneer to make good on its "shared security" promise.

EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan

Tech

Crypto-to-Fiat App P2P.me Raises $2M from Multicoin and Coinbase Ventures

The peer-to-peer app is bringing stablecoin payments into the QR code economy.

(Shutterstock)

Tech

Crypto Ad-Tech Shop Builds 'Retargeting' Service to Reel in Likely Customers

Addressable is looking to bring Web2 marketing tactics to the Web3 economy.

The Addressable team poses by the sea.

Finance

Solana's Jupiter Buys DRiP Haus, DeFi Exchange's First NFT Play

The self-proclaimed Solana super app doesn't think NFTs are dead yet.

Vibhu Norby

Finance

AI-Infused Blockchain Ambient to 'Replace Bitcoin,' Says Co-Founder

Ambient raised $7.2 million in seed funding from a16z, Delphi Digital and Amber Group.

Cryptocurrency mining machines