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

EigenLayer Lifts Staking Cap, TVL Soars Past $3B

The temporary lift comes as restaking on Ethereum is booming despite warnings from developers that it might strain the network.

EigenLayer CEO Sreeram Kannan. (Bradley Keoun)

Finance

Celsius' Bitcoin Mining Assets to Restart as New Firm Prepares to Go Public

The new company, Ionic Digital, expects to hit mining capacity of 12.7 exahash per second (EH/s).

Ionic's CEO Matt Prusak (Ionic Digital)

Finance

Market Manipulation May Have Hit Majority of New Ethereum Tokens in 2023: Chainalysis

A new study by the on-chain sleuth found possible pump and dump patterns for 54% of tokens listed in 2023.

Market manipulation persists on Ethereum (Walking Tour Salzburg/Unsplash)

Finance

Germany Banking Giant DZ to Pilot Crypto Trading This Year: Bloomberg

The bank released a cryptocurrency custody platform in November.

Frankfurt, Germany (Sinan Erg/Unsplash)

Policy

India Keeps Stiff Taxes on Crypto as Interim-Budget Is Revealed in Election Year

Expectations were low for a change in the stiff taxes on crypto transactions: a 30% tax on profits and a 1% TDS on all transactions.

(L-R) Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India and Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian Finance Minister at the G20 Annual Meetings, in Washington DC in October 2022. (Indian Ministry of Finance)

Markets

It May Be Time for Bitcoin Traders to Focus on John Bollinger's Price Bands Again

Bitcoin's monthly chart Bollinger bandwidth resembles a pattern seen before the near-vertical rallies of 2020 and 2016.

Didgeman/Pixabay

Finance

Ripple's XRP Drops 5% After Executive Is Hacked, Sparking Rumors of Network Breach

Ripple Executive Chairman Chris Larsen said the stolen funds all came from his "personal XRP accounts" in response to a report from blockchain analyst ZachXBT.

Ripple (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

German Police Seize $2.1B Worth of Bitcoin in Piracy Sting

One of the suspects voluntarily transferred the bitcoin to the Federal Criminal Police Office.

German police announce $2.1B bitcoin seizure (Markus Spiske/Unsplash)

Finance

MIM Stablecoin Suffers Flash Crash Amid $6.5M Exploit

Certrik suggests the exploit could be due to a rounding error.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Markets

ARK Bought $62.3M Worth of Own ETF in Last Week; Sold $42.7M of BITO

ARKW now holds $91.4 million of ARKB, constituting a 5.98% weighting of the fund's total value

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood