Danny Nelson

Danny Nelson

Danny is CoinDesk's deputy business editor. 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, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.

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Bitwise’s Flagship Fund Seeks SEC Reporting Status
If it succeeds, Bitwise would join Grayscale as the only crypto fund issuers to register their products as a public reporting company.
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Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Fund Draws $29.4M in 2 Weeks, Filings Show
Morgan Stanley’s new bitcoin product is already one of the largest funds of its kind by investor count.
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BitGo Will Custody Crypto for US Marshals Service in $4.5M Deal
The custodian will manage potentially tens of millions of dollars in seized cryptocurrencies, according to documents published Wednesday.
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NFT Issuer Doublejump.Tokyo Ditches Ethereum for Flow Blockchain
The digital trading card company says it got fed up after three years of scaling woes on the world computer.
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Coinbase Earmarks 10% of Resources to Funding Staff-Pitched Moonshots
The publicly traded crypto exchange is launching an internal incubator program to find the Next Big Thing.
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Ampleforth Is Giving Governance Tokens to Every Wallet That Ever Held AMPL
Project leads estimate over 75,000 users will be eligible to claim the new FORTH governance token.
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Ex-CFTC Chair Chris Giancarlo Joins BlockFi Board of Directors
The former top U.S. commodities regulator has joined BlockFi’s board of directors, the crypto lender announced Tuesday.
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NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Sells NFT for $5.4M
Proceeds from the auction are going to the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
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Hedge Fund Behind One River Digital to Invest Part of $5.6B Fund in Crypto: Report
Macro fund manager Brevan Howard plans to invest up to 1.5% of its main fund in cryptocurrencies, according to a story in Bloomberg.
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Much Wow: Slim Jim Has a Dogecoin Strategy. News of It Sends DOGE to a New ATH
The parent company of social media’s favorite meat stick gave DOGE its first-ever earnings call shoutout.
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