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.

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Finans

Crypto Startup Velar Plans Perpetual Swaps Exchange for Bitcoin DeFi After Raising $3.5M

"Bitcoin DeFi is just too nascent right now," CEO Mithil Thakore said. But that's beginning to change.

Heading of Bitcoin Whitepaper

Finans

Market Manipulation May Have Hit Majority of New Ethereum Tokens in 2023: Chainalysis

A new study by the on-chain sleuth found possible pump and dump patterns for 54% of tokens listed in 2023.

(Walking Tour Salzburg/Unsplash)

Finans

Hounded by Lawyers and Short on Cash, Ben 'Bitboy Crypto' Armstrong Nixes Daily Show

"We've got lawyers coming at me from every angle," the brash crypto influencer said Wednesday.

Ben Armstrong (Ben Armstrong/YouTube)

Piyasalar

JUP Token Soars After Massive $700M Jupiter Airdrop to Solana Wallets

Validators called the airdrop a success. "Surprisingly, nothing notable" broke, one operator said.

Arbitrum airdrop goes live. (Pexel/Pixabay)

Reklam

Finans

MIM Stablecoin Suffers Flash Crash Amid $6.5M Exploit

Certrik suggests the exploit could be due to a rounding error.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Piyasalar

dYdX Foundation Requests $30M Budget, Pledges to Issue Annual Spending Report

The Foundation wants to preserve an 18-month runway through at least mid-2026.

(Unsplash)

Piyasalar

Solana's WEN Token Plummets Despite Burning 27% of Supply

The burn turned out to be a "sell the news event" as traders had already accounted for the purge – and then some.

"Moonbois in the mud," wrote one pseudonymous trader (wenwencoin.com, modified by CoinDesk)

Finans

DeFi Insurer Nexus Mutual Requests $153K for 6-Month Budget

The crypto insurance protocol is anticipating growth stemming from a recent partnership.

Ledn's Mauricio Di Bartolomeo argues that the crypto lending industry can rebuild trust following a disastrous 2022. (Mathieu Stern/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Piyasalar

Around 17% of WEN Token Supply Could be Burned After Airdrop, Data Suggests

CoinDesk reviewed on-chain data to estimate how much WEN token will be left at the end of the airdrop.

(wenwencoin.com)

Finans

Fan Club for Solana's Saga Phone Loses 750 SOL

Saga DAO's founder had moved the funds to a wallet whose multisig protections never came online.

Saga phone (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)