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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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Finance
Asset management
Neuberger Berman Greenlights Indirect Crypto Investments for Commodities Fund
The $400 billion asset manager is expanding its investments strategy to include bitcoin and ether.
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By Danny Nelson
Aug 11, 2021 at 2:29 p.m. UTC
Aug 11, 2021
Asset ManagementMutual Funds
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Finance
Coinbase
PNC Bank Planning Crypto Offering With Coinbase
A source said PNC, the fifth-largest bank in the U.S., plans to offer crypto investment services to clients.
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By Danny Nelson
Aug 10, 2021 at 9:39 p.m. UTC
Aug 10, 2021
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Markets
Cftc
BitMEX Announces $100M CFTC, FinCEN Settlement
BitMEX will pay a $100 million penalty to resolve the charges, the firm announced in a blog post.
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By Nikhilesh DeDanny Nelson
Aug 10, 2021 at 6:24 p.m. UTC
Aug 10, 2021
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Markets
Funding rounds
Crypto Trading Startup FalconX Achieves Unicorn Status With Latest Raise
The Chicago-based trading desk said revenue has grown by 30 times, year over year.
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By Danny Nelson
Aug 10, 2021 at 4:31 p.m. UTC
Aug 10, 2021
Funding RoundsCryptocurrency TradingFalconX
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Finance
Sports
DraftKings Charts NFT Long-Game With Marketplace Debut
Tom Brady’s NFT platform, Autograph, is powering the sports betting app’s foray into the world of digital collectibles.
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By Danny Nelson
Aug 10, 2021 at 11:30 a.m. UTC
Aug 10, 2021
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Tech
Ethereum
'Wormhole' Launches for Connecting DeFi on BSC, Terra and Ethereum to Solana
Wormhole opens a faster (and, developers claim, simpler) route for non-native assets to enter Solana’s bustling DeFi ecosystem.
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By Danny Nelson
Aug 9, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. UTC
Aug 9, 2021
EthereumTerraSolana
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Opinionated
Tether
What If Tether Goes Belly-Up? Feat. Grant Gulovsen
Grant Gulovsen is fascinated by the story of Tether, and so are we. Tether is behind the $62 billion stablecoin powering much of the liquidity in the crypto markets. What woul...
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By Ben SchillerAnna BaydakovaDanny Nelson
Aug 9, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. UTC
Aug 9, 2021
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Policy
Bitgo
Why US Government Yanked BitGo’s Contract and Gave It to Anchorage
A tale of crypto rivalry, multimillion-dollar contracts, and bureaucratic definitions of “small business.”
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By Danny Nelson
Aug 5, 2021 at 5:42 p.m. UTC
Aug 5, 2021
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Markets
Jpmorgan
JPMorgan Launches In-House Bitcoin Fund for Private Bank Clients
The mega-bank has started pitching Private Bank clients on a passive bitcoin fund in partnership with NYDIG.
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By Danny Nelson
Aug 5, 2021 at 2:06 a.m. UTC
Aug 5, 2021
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Markets
Blockchain startups
Blockchain Developer Toolkit Alchemy Adds High-Profile Angels to $80M Series B
Revenues for the blockchain infrastructure company have grown more than tenfold since it announced the series B in April.
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By Danny Nelson
Aug 4, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. UTC
Aug 4, 2021
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