Danny Nelson

Managing Editor - Data & Tokens

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.

Latest from Danny Nelson

Finance

Institutional Crypto Trading Platform Talos Taps Into Uniswap's Liquidity

It's the first time Talos will be routing trades through a decentralized exchange.

Nov 30, 2023

Mary-Catherine Lader, COO, Uniswap Labs (Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Podcasts

Can You Put a Price on Decentralized Governance? Polygon and DraftKings Did

Nov 30, 2023

Finance

Polygon Gave DraftKings Multimillion-Dollar Edge in Special Staking Relationship

Blockchain data shows the crypto project quietly gave DraftKings preferential treatment while telling the public it was an "equal" member of the validator community.

Nov 30, 2023

(Photo illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Policy

Binance's Future and Other Questions Post-Settlement

What sort of impact will Binance's massive settlement have?

Nov 29, 2023

Finance

Aave's GHO Stablecoin Nears Elusive Dollar Peg

A "benevolent temporary dictator" is helping the not-so-stablecoin get on track.

Nov 28, 2023

Finance

Binance Got Huge Due to U.S. Customers. That Was Illegal, U.S. Says

Charging documents unsealed Tuesday against the crypto exchange and founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao detail years of compliance failures and obfuscation in the name of protecting Binance's most valuable – and off-limits – users.

Nov 21, 2023