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

Omni Network Signs $600M Restaking Deal With Ether.Fi to Enhance Security

Both Omni and Ether.Fi have committed to EigenLayer's pooled security model.

Omni Network signs $600 million deal with Ether.Fi (Blogging guide/Unsplash)

Markets

SHIB, WIF Climb 60% as Shorts Lose $50M Betting Against Meme Coins

Pepe (PEPE), the frog-themed meme token on Ethereum, was up as much as 100% to set record highs.

The dogwifhat meme (Know your meme)

Markets

Floki Price Surges 100% as Burn Proposal Passes

As reported last week, the burn removes 2% of the tokens from the circulating supply.

(Jp Valery/Unsplash)

Finance

Blast, Hyped Layer-2 Chain, Sees Most Deposits Bridge to Yield Manager

The controversial layer-2 network had taken $2.3 billion in deposits since November as it prepared for launch. What remains is now down to about $350 million, but many of the deposits in the original "farm" contract have now moved into a new Blast address.

Blast TVL (DefiLlama)

Finance

IOTA's Ecosystem Foundation Commits $10M for Tokenization, Trade Startups

The investment will focus on startups in the UAE and Africa.

Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Finance

Liquid Restaking Protocol Ether.Fi Raises $23M Series A

The total amount of capital on ether.fi has jumped from $103 million to $1.66 billion since the turn of the year.

ether.fi raises $23 million (Giorgio Trovato/Unsplash)

Markets

Liquidity Protocol's Token AERO Surges 77% After CB Ventures Invests in Aerodrome Finance

Aerodrome Finance is the largest protocol on Base with more than 30% of a market share.

AERO token rises 77% (TradingView)

Finance

Tornado Cash Reportedly Suffers Backend Exploit, User Deposits at Risk

The exploit has the function to steal deposit data and deposited funds.

Tornado Cash website and Discord taken offline (Nikolas Noonan/Unsplash)

Markets

Early Uniswap Whale Sold $1M Worth of UNI as Price Surged

The wallet in question still holds $10.6 million worth of UNI tokens.

Uniswap price (CoinDesk data)

Finance

Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy Purchased an Additional 3K BTC, Now Holds $10B Worth

The company now has about a $3.8 billion in unrealized profit on its bitcoin stash.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (Getty Images)