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.

Danny Nelson

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Coinbase Commerce Adds Support for Dogecoin Payments

The memecoin is only the sixth crypto to be integrated with Coinbase’s e-commerce platform.

Dogecoin Joke Is Turning Serious In Latest Crypto Binge

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NJ Regulators Give BlockFi 1 Week Before Blocking New Interest Accounts

The state’s securities regulator contends BlockFi is selling an “unregistered security” to its customers.

BlockFi app

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S&P Crypto Index Has 243 Coins. DOGE Is Not One of Them

The index company's Broad Digital Market tracker dives deep – very deep – into the digital asset universe, CoinDesk found.

Dogecoin price chart

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Senate to Investigate Crypto’s Role in Cybercrime

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is adding another front in lawmakers’ crypto probe.

U.S. Capitol building

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CoinFund Targets ‘Early Mainstream Adoption’ With $83M Venture Fund

The six-year-old crypto VC firm has headlined seven fundraising rounds so far this year.

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NFT Marketplace OpenSea Valued at $1.5B in $100M Funding Round Led by A16z

The NFT venue has crossed into the rarefied air of crypto unicorns.

OpenSea's Devin Finzer speaking at NFT.NYC in 2019.

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US Senators Ask Team USA to Boycott China’s Digital Yuan at 2022 Olympics

“We cannot allow America’s athletes to be used as a Trojan horse to increase the Chinese Communist Party’s ability to spy on the United States,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis.

Beijing is hosting the Winter Olympics in 2022.

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COVID-19 Stimulus Checks Fueled 'Modest' Jump in Bitcoin Price Last Year: Cleveland Fed

Policymakers should not be concerned, the researchers wrote: Only 0.02% of coronavirus-relief checks ended up in bitcoin.

helicopter money

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Republican Senator Highlights Bitcoin's Battle in Shedding Criminal Baggage

Sen. Chuck Grassley is using "deeply flawed" estimates of illicit bitcoin activity to call for closer scrutiny of the industry, according to multiple crypto intelligence firms.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)

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Blocknative Raises $12M to Follow Crypto Transactions ‘In-Flight’

The startup has its eyes on the mempool.

The Blocknative team