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

Telefónica Partners With Helium to Roll Out Mobile Hotspots in Mexico

Helium's native token is up by 5.71% over the past 24-hours.

Telecom giant Telefónica partners with Helium (HNT) to roll out mobile hotspots in Mexico. (Robbie Herrera/Unsplash)

Markets

Fed Rate Cut Hopes Run Into Inflationary Red Sea Crisis

Disruptions to commercial shipping traffic via the Red Sea/Suez Canal route threaten to push up prices. That's an unwelcome development for bitcoin bulls.

Sea (ajs1980518/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Exchange OKX's Token Suffers 50% Flash Crash Amid Liquidation Cascade

The exchange said that it will compensate impacted users within 72 hours.

OKB price flash crash (TradingView)

Finance

Coinbase Falls After JPMorgan Downgrades Stock to Underweight on Disappointing Bitcoin ETF Catalyst

The bitcoin ETF catalyst that pushed the ecosystem out of its crypto winter last year will disappoint investors in 2024, the report said.

JP Morgan office (Matthew Foulds/Unsplash)

Finance

StarkWare CEO Uri Kolodny Steps Down Due to Family Health Issue

StarkWare president Eli Ben-Sasson will become CEO, and Kolodny will continue to serve on the StarkWare board of directors, the company said on Thursday.

StarkWare co-founders President Eli Ben-Sasson and CEO Uri Kolodny (StarkWare)

Finance

Stablecoin Issuer Circle Internet Files for IPO

The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined.

Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle (CoinDesk)

Finance

Arthur Hayes Joins Decentralized AI platform Ritual

Ritual's board of advisers includes NEAR Protocol and EigenLayer founders.

Arthur Hayes (Ritual)

Markets

Bitcoin ETF Fever Drives Ethereum to 32-Month Low Versus BTC

Ether has lost 43% of its value against bitcoin since Sept. 7.

ETH/BTC chart (TradingView)

Finance

El Salvador's BTC Bet Is $13M in Profit as Bitcoin ETF Approval Approaches

President Nayib Bukele hailed the investment as being "back in the black" last month.

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. (Government of El Salvador, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

North Korean Hacking Group Lazarus Withdraws $1.2M of Bitcoin From Coin Mixer

Lazarus Group, said to have been behind some $3 billion worth of cryptocurrency hacks and exploits over the past three years, appears to be moving around some of its bitcoin hoard. The group holds $79 million in wallets tagged by the blockchain analysis firm Arkham.

Lazarus Group withdraws $1.2M of BTC (Micha Brändli/Unsplash)