Danny Nelson

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, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.

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Clockwork to shut down (Heather Zabriskie/Unsplash)
Solana-Based Automation Startup Clockwork to Shut Down
The venture-backed startup’s founders saw “limited commercial upside.”
Clockwork to shut down (Heather Zabriskie/Unsplash)
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Weird PEPE Transfers Spook Crypto Investors and Prompt Meme Coin's 15% Plunge
On-chain sleuths noted troubling changes to the oversight of a key wallet.
(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
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Insights From El Salvador's Pioneering Legal Tender Experiment
Jonathan Martin has spent the last few months traveling across El Salvador, speaking with locals, developers, expats and merchants about the country’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender.
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A frontend developer for Cypher at mtnDAO. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Hacked Crypto Exchange Cypher Plans to Hold Public Token Sale
The sale will be uncommonly tilted toward the public.
A frontend developer for Cypher at mtnDAO. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
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Balancer Depositors Pull Nearly $100M in Crypto After Vulnerability Warning
“People are withdrawing fast,” said pseudonymous contributor Xeonus.
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Equity investors have limited choices if they want to trade Ethereum's Merge. (Getty Images)
Curve Crisis Averted, NFT Loans Protocol Now Votes on Next Steps
JPEG’d DAO voters are deciding how to account for a $1 million bounty.
Equity investors have limited choices if they want to trade Ethereum's Merge. (Getty Images)
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Season Tickets for the Crypto Theater
CoinDesk layoffs. Plus, DeFi fails to live up to its promises and a look at Coinbase’s recent flurry of announcements.
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Featured Story | Aragon Mulled Sale of Crypto Project, Leaked Screenshot Shows
One of the biggest crypto projects building tools to support decentralized governance is trying to get out of its own governance pickle.
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(Aragon Association, modified by CoinDesk)
Aragon Mulled Sale of Crypto Project, Leaked Screenshot Shows
One of the biggest crypto projects building tools to support decentralized governance is trying to get out of its own governance pickle.
(Aragon Association, modified by CoinDesk)
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PayPal Steps Into the Stablecoin Game
PayPal’s announcement is a big deal for crypto. But what’s the business model behind this decision, and why launch a stablecoin now?
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