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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Finance

Upstart Crypto Tracer Brings ‘Middleware’ to Busy Blockchain Analysis Industry

Blocktrace’s new product pools multiple data intelligence streams to help investigators demystify high-profile crypto crimes.

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Finance

BlackRock Wants a Blockchain Strategy for Aladdin, Its Investments Engine

A job posting reveals enterprise blockchain ambitions at the world’s largest asset manager. Public and private chains are up for evaluation, a source said.

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Finance

TRM Labs Raises $14M as Crypto Tracking Steps Into Spotlight

The San Francisco intelligence firm has seen revenues surge as blockchain analysis goes mainstream.

TRM Labs co-founders Esteban Castano (left) and Rahul Raina

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Finance

Real Vision Raises $35M in Bid to Shake Up Financial Media

Raoul Pal’s mini media empire is wooing TradFi stalwarts and crypto maxis alike.

Raoul Pal speaks at CoinDesk Consensus (CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Derivatives Platform dYdX Raises $65M in Paradigm-Led Series C

The San Francisco-based DEX builder has processed $2.2 billion in trades and is now “hugely profitable.”

Members of the dYdX team

Finance

MicroStrategy Raises $500M From Bond Sale to Buy More Bitcoin

The announcement comes with news of a new bitcoin-holding subsidiary, MacroStrategy LLC.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor walks through the Bitcoin 2021 convention.

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Markets

Tesla Will Resume Taking Bitcoin as Payment Once Miners Go 50% Green, Musk Says

The comments provide a first benchmark for reinstating bitcoin payments at Tesla.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk.