Danny Nelson

Managing Editor - Data & Tokens

Danny was 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.

Latest from Danny Nelson

Finance

Crypto Trading Protocol Drift Relaunches Into Rocky Solana DeFi Landscape

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

Dec 19, 2022

Podcasts

Dire Times Call for DeFi

Dec 15, 2022

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.

Dec 13, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

FalconX Discloses Assets Locked on FTX

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

Dec 9, 2022

FalconX Chief Executive Officer Raghu Yarlagadda (FalconX)

Podcasts

The Who’s Who of Crypto’s 2022

Dec 8, 2022

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.

Dec 5, 2022