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

Tron’s Justin Sun Was Secret Top Client of Crypto Asset Manager Valkyrie

A private financial document reviewed by CoinDesk shows that Sun, one of the richest figures in crypto, was responsible for the vast majority of a key Valkyrie division’s assets under management.

Cartel del fundador de Tron, Justin Sun. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Trading Protocol Drift Relaunches Into Rocky Solana DeFi Landscape

The derivatives trader is back after an eight-month hiatus.

Drift v2 (Drift Protocol)

Finance

Bankman-Fried Lawsuits Expose FTX's 'Special Treatment' of Alameda Research

Sam Bankman-Fried’s “personal piggy bank” Alameda Research was deeply intertwined with his exchange, FTX.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

FalconX Discloses Assets Locked on FTX

The crypto trading firm says it can nonetheless take the pain.

FalconX Chief Executive Officer Raghu Yarlagadda (FalconX)

Consensus Magazine

Crypto Developers Reveal the Perils of Anonymity

The total value locked on the Solana network reached billions of dollars, based in part on sham protocols by two brothers working under multiple aliases. For showing how divorced TVL can be from the truth, Ian and Dylan Macalinao share a spot on CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.

Ian and Dylan Macalinao (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Derivatives DEXs Reposition for Life After FTX

Decentralized exchanges are retooling their public-facing approach.

Hxro founder Dan Gunsberg speaking at Solana Breakpoint 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)