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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Markets

This OG Bitcoin Investor Just Turned $120 Into $178M

The user held BTC from when it was worth $0.06 all the way up to $90,000.

Token unlocks are usually bearish events, increasing a token's supply.(FLY:D/Unsplash)

Finance

Cardano Foundation Spent $23.7M in 2023: Financial Insights Report

$4.55 million was spent on "central operating costs."

Frederik Gregaard (Cardano Foundation)

Markets

Volatility Expected in Bitcoin Later Today as US Headline Inflation Data Is Expected to Tick Higher: Van Straten

Headline inflation year-over-year is expected to increase by 0.2% and end a six-month consecutive decline, last seen in March 2024.

BTC: Options ATM Implied Volatility (Glassnode)

Finance

Revolut Expands Crypto Exchange Across EU After Successful Launch in UK

Tens of thousands of traders have been using the bank’s crypto exchange in the UK, a spokesperson said.

CoinDesk at CES 2023

Finance

AI Firm Genius Group Adopts Bitcoin as Primary Treasury Asset; Shares Spike 50%

Shares are now trading at $0.70 after initially spiking up to $1.

Night view of Singapore taken across the water.

Finance

Solana Memecoin ACT Rockets 1,720% on Binance Listing as Altcoin Market Heats Up

The token has risen amid an absence of liquidity on exchanges.

Rocket taking off. (NASA, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Trump Family-Backed Crypto Project Makes $1M Gain in ETH Following Tame Token Sale

World Liberty Financial slashed its fundraising goal from $300 million to $30 million last week.

Donald Trump's remarks at BTC 2024 have inspired Forida's chief financial official to put pension money into bitcoin. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Memecoin Creators Hop on U.S. Election Mania With Thousands of New Tokens

More than 1,000 memecoins related to the U.S. presidential election have been issued on Solana in the past 24 hours.

New meme coin narrative emerges (Darren Halstead/Unsplash)

Finance

U.S. Election Betting: Polymarket 'Manipulation' Claims Miss the Mark

The manipulation narrative is an attempt by mainstream media to discredit Polymarket’s election odds and control the narrative, one expert said.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 03:  People cast their votes at an early voting site at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library on November 03, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Nation’s Capitol is bracing for protests and potential unrest with a contentious Election Day looming on the horizon. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Markets

Ether Gains 2.5%, Outperforming BTC and Maybe Primed for More Upside

The second-largest crypto has been locked in a sizable downtrend relative to bitcoin.

ETHUSD chart (TradingView)