Danny Nelson

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.

Danny Nelson

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Policy

IRA Financial 'Swatted' at Time of $36M Crypto Hack, Police Officer Tells Victim

The detail adds another layer of intrigue to the seemingly inexplicable hack of IRA Financial Trust, an institutional partner of the Gemini exchange.

(FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin)

Finance

Plenty of Money and No One to Pay: Crypto Teams at ETHDenver Face Hiring Crunch

Recruiters at ETHDenver say a shortage of developer talent is inflating salaries and brewing up competition in the industry building Web 3.

(Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

Policy

Canada Sanctions 34 Crypto Wallets Tied to Trucker 'Freedom Convoy'

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero and Cardano addresses are all on the list.

Canadian truckers blocked borders and bridges in protest of Canada's vaccine mandate for entrants from the U.S. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Finance

USV, Multicoin Lead $30M Raise for 3Box’s Ceramic Data Network

“Web 3 social” has been an early focus of the data composability project.

(Jessica Ruscello/Unsplash)

Finance

Drained Crypto Accounts at IRA Financial Leave Victims Searching for Answers

Retirement accounts held at Gemini were hit during a Feb. 8 exploit. The crypto IRA firm has yet to say much, but victims estimate millions of dollars were moved.

(Yuri Krupenin/Unsplash)

Finance

BlockFi Moves to Register Lending Product With SEC

The company said Monday it plans to register its controversial high-yield interest account.

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Policy

BlockFi Will Pay $100M in Settlement With SEC, State Regulators Over High-Yield Accounts: Report

The company has been under investigation since at least November over the lending product, which offers yields as high as 9.5%.

BlockFi advertisement in Washington D.C.'s Union Station (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Washington Nationals to ‘Explore’ Terra’s UST Stablecoin in DAO-Approved Partnership Deal

The MLB team’s deal with the Terra network is even bigger than previously reported.

(G Fiume/Getty Images)