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

New Kind of Crypto Insider Trading? SEC Might Take a Look at These Trades, Experts Say

"It seems like there's smoke here, and it may be worth an investigation to see if there's a fire," a finance professor said.

(Jon Simon/Bettmann via Getty Images)

Tech

Arbitrum Hit by 'Partial Outage' Due to Traffic Surge

The layer-2 blockchain stopped working as intended Friday morning.

Arbitrum booth at ETHDenver (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Trader Turns $1K Into $100K on Solana’s Newest Memecoin, Dogwifhat

Like it or not, dog tokens are driving big business in the crypto markets.

The dogwifhat meme (Know your meme)

Markets

Jito's Token Launch Pushed Competitor Marinade's MNDE to All-Time Highs

Marinade's market cap is dwarfed by Jito, though, despite being a bigger crypto ecosystem.

cartoon of Marinade Finance's logo

Finance

Solana Protocol Kamino Eyes Airdrop Following Jito Token Launch

Solana's SOL token has more than tripled since mid-October as DeFi traders return to the ecosystem's on-chain trading, borrowing, lending and yield-generating projects, most notably Kamino.

Solana party in Lisbon (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Even Small-Time Jito Airdroppers Are Getting Thousands of Dollars in JTO Tokens

The governance token was airdropped to users of Jito's liquid staking token protocol.

Arbitrum airdrop goes live. (Pexel/Pixabay)

Consensus Magazine

Anatoly Yakovenko and Solana Bounce Back

With a rocketing token and tech improvements on the horizon, the Solana community – rallied by industry champion Anatoly Yakovenko – defied the odds of defeat.

Anatoly Yakovenko (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

Brian Armstrong of Coinbase Is Crypto's Last Big Man Standing

With CZ gone at Binance, and SBF set for prison, Brian Armstrong is the biggest big gun still in the hot seat. Having launched its own layer-2 blockchain and derivatives exchange this year, and ETFs looking poised to launch in 2024, Coinbase looks well positioned to ride crypto's next wave.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)