Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight is the co-leader of CoinDesk data tokens and data team. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022 Oliver spent three years as the chief reporter at Coin Rivet. He first started investing in bitcoin in 2013 and spent a period of his career working at a market making firm in the UK. He does not currently have any crypto holdings.

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Finance

Bitcoin Pizza Day Turns Sour as Meme Coin Shysters Profit Over $200K in Rug Pulls

Meme coin traders poured capital into several pizza-related tokens on Monday as rug pulls put a dampener on the anniversary of the first purchase made with bitcoin.

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Finance

EOS Network Participants Should Consider Legal Action Against Block.one: EOS Foundation CEO

EOS Network Foundation's founder said the other option is a hard fork to exclude EOS tokens held by B1

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Markets

Crypto Market Recovery Unlikely Until Stablecoin Universe Stops Shrinking: JPMorgan

Tether’s market cap has been growing at the expense of rival stablecoins such as USD Coin, the report said.

JP Morgan office (Matthew Foulds/Unsplash)

Finance

Investors Track Pepecoin Whales to Cash In on Meme Coin Mania as Wider Market Stagnates

The trend has the potential to disrupt the huge rallies bitcoin and ether have seen this year.

Meme coin rug pulls could impact BTC and ETH (Juli Kosolapova/Unsplash)

Finance

Justin Sun Says Huobi Founder Li Lin's Brother Acquired HT Token for Free and Cashed Out

The HT token bounced by 3.16% following Justin Sun's statement.

Consensus 2019 Justin Sun CEO TRON (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Liquidity on the Brink as Market Makers Pare Back in Crypto Markets

Liquidity across bitcoin trading pairs has slumped and failed to recover since the collapse of FTX in November.

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Finance

Bitcoin 'Flash Rally' Briefly Pushed BTC Derivatives Above $56K on Bitfinex

The spike triggered a series of liquidations on the exchange.

BTC-PERP spikes to $56K (Cryptowatch)

Finance

PEPE Token Soars to $500M Market Cap as Meme Coin Fever Grips Crypto Traders

PEPE derivatives will be listed on BitMEX with up to 50x leverage.

Pepe the Frog (PepeCoin's Twitter account)

Finance

DeFi Protocol 0VIX Loses Nearly $2M in Flash-Loan Exploit

The attacker stole 1.45 USDC along with other tokens.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Finance

Cross-Chain Bridge Stargate's Volume Soars as Airdrop Hunters Set Sights on LayerZero Token

Crypto traders are using the Stargate bridge in the hope that they will be eligible for a rumored LayerZero airdrop.

Puente. (Aleksandr Barsukov/Unsplash)