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

Judge Upholds Freeze on SpartacusDAO's $35M in Lawsuit Served Via Discord, NFT

The leader of SpartacusDAO is barred from touching $35 million in investor funds until he starts working with the court.

Spartacus (Gautier Poupeau/Wikimedia)

Finance

Aragon Bans at Least 6 DAO Members During Treasury Discussion, Alleging ‘Coordinated’ Assault

Their banishment from Aragon’s Discord for asking “probing questions” and using “inappropriate language” highlights the disconnect between the censorship-resistant ideals of crypto governance and the reality that insiders hold considerable sway.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Coinbase Opens Offshore Crypto Derivatives Exchange

Based in Bermuda, Coinbase International Exchange will not be open to U.S. traders.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk)

Finance

Russian Bitcoin Wallets Allegedly Exposed by Apparent Hacker

A mysterious bitcoiner used the OP_RETURN field to call out wallets controlled by FSB and GRU.

Chainalysis CEO Michael Gronager (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Circle Unveils New Method for Moving USDC Between Blockchains

The cross-chain transfer protocol seeks to improve liquidity of the major crypto payments rail.

A CCTP demo at Circle’s Consensus 2023 booth in Austin, Texas (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

USDC Stablecoin Strengthened by U.S. Banking Crisis in March, Circle CEO Says

The stablecoin issuer has upgraded its market infrastructure after its stablecoin lost its dollar peg.

Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Major Crypto Firms Deny Investment in Three Arrows Founders' New Exchange

Susquehanna (SIG), DRW and Nascent had been included in list of "major investors" in a Friday tweet from OPNX, the exchange.

Kyle Davies (left) and Su Zhu (middle). (Kyle Davies/X)

Tech

Solana’s Annual Carbon Footprint Equals 18062 Flights From London to New York

A new, real-time dashboard set up by the Solana Foundation purporting to show how relatively little carbon the smart contracts platform is emitting – at a time when the energy usage of Bitcoin and other blockchains is under scrutiny.

A trash installation at a Solana hacker house. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)