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.

Oliver Knight

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Finance

BitForex to Open for Withdrawals Following Chinese Police Investigation

The exchange has been offline since February.

(chinahbzyg/Shutterstock)

Finance

Polymarket Hires Nate Silver After Taking in $265M of Bets on U.S. Election: Report

The crypto-based prediction market has taken more than $400 million in bets this year.

Nate Silver will now reportedly work for prediction market Polymarket. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for AWXII)

Finance

Sam Altman's Worldcoin Surges 15% as Investor and Team Lockup Extended

WLD is up by more than 26% over the past 24-hours.

Worldcoin's iris-scanning technology is being questioned by regulators (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Defi Protocol LI.FI Struck by $11M Exploit

The exploit is reported to be related to the LI.FI bridge.

(Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

Finance

Meme Coins Outperform BTC, ETH and SOL as Traders Rotate Holdings

The $53 billion meme coin sector rose by more than 12% on Tuesday with the likes of pepe (PEPE) and dogwifhat (WIF) surging by 22% and 25% respectively, data from CoinGecko shows.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Hacks, Rug Pulls Cost BNB Chain $1.6B Since Inception: Immunefi

The blockchain remains the primary target for bad actors performing rug pulls.

BNB Chain Ethereum comparison (Immunefi)

Markets

Bitcoin at Pivotal Point as Bear Market Beckons: Onchain Data

Several factors point towards continued downside, but bitcoin whales continue to accumulate at the fastest rate in more than a year.

Bitcoin P&L index (CryptoQuant)

Markets

AI Tokens Outperform CoinDesk 20 Index Tuesday Despite Clouds Forming Over Industry

New research from Goldman Sachs and Sequoia challenges assumptions that Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models can change the world.

(Possessed Photography/Unsplash)