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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CipherTrace’s New Crypto Tracing Tool Is Meant for Banks

CipherTrace is rolling out a toolkit to help banks flag accounts and crypto-related transactions that may be suspicious.

CipherTrace’s new crypto tracing tool will sort through bank routing and account numbers to find transactions which might be risky to financial institutions. (Credit: Shutterstock)

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World Economic Forum Shares Roadmap for Deploying Blockchains in Real World

As COVID-19 disrupts global supply chains, the WEF has published a roadmap for businesses to deploy blockchains as a solution.

The World Economic Forum is hoping to aid supply chain businesses with its new roadmap for deploying blockchain, citing tracking medical supplies as one potential use case. (Credit: Rumir / Shutterstock)

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US Regulator Clears Security Token Trading System to Launch

North Capital received regulatory approval to launch an alternate trading system for security tokens.

Salt Lake City-based North Capital received approval for its security token ATS in March. (Credit: Shutterstock)

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Dole Plans to Use Blockchain Food Tracing in All Divisions by 2025

Pineapple and produce purveyor Dole wants to expand its use of blockchain to track goods from all three business divisions in just five years.

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SEC Sues Dropil Founders for Fraud After $1.8M Token Sale

The SEC has charged three California residents with defrauding investors of $1.8 million through an unregistered token sale.

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Finanzas

Italy's Leading Wire Service Is Using Ethereum to Thwart Copycats

Italy's ANSA newswire is trialing an ethereum-based system to track every article it publishes in an effort to prevent impersonators from publishing fake news under its banner.

ANSA’s blockchain system rolled out earlier this year, but still only accounts for about 80 percent of articles published to its own site. Ultimately, its backers hope it can be used across the internet. (Credit: praszkiewicz / Shutterstock)

Finanzas

Gemini Clears New Deloitte Audit in Bid to Appeal to Wall Street

Gemini’s exchange and custody services have cleared yet another systems design check.

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UK’s Tech Bailout Could Help Blockchain Devs Weather COVID-19 Shutdown

Britain’s new “Future Fund” relief package will help tech firms, including blockchain companies like Chainvine.

Chainvine CEO Oliver Oram said COVID has thrashed his budget. "Everything has to be slashed at the moment because you don't even know where normality will come back.” (Credit: Loveandrock / Shutterstock)

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Dutch Central Bank Wants to Be European Union's CBDC Proving Ground

The Dutch Central Bank is making a bid to become the European Union’s proving ground for a central bank digital currency.

The Dutch Central Bank cited its nation’s declining use of physical cash as one of the reasons it may do well with a CBDC trial. (Credit: Shutterstock)

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Crypto Payments for Child Porn Grew 32% in 2019: Report

Nearly $1 million in bitcoin and ethereum flowed into child sexual abuse material-linked wallet addresses in 2019.

Crypto payments for child sexual abuse material is a small, but growing, area. (Credit: Chainalysis)