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

More Bitcoin ETF Rejections 'Quite Likely,' BitGo's Belshe Says

Belshe says the SEC could reject ETF applications until exchanges and custody separate out.

CEO of BitGo Mike Belshe in a chair on-stage at Consensus 2023

Finance

255M Pyth Tokens to Be Airdropped to 90K Wallets Next Week

The Pyth network currently has $1.57 billion in total value secured across 120 protocols.

Pyth issues token airdrop (ian dooley/Unsplash)

Finance

A Physical Dogecoin Could Reach the Moon in December

Dogecoin community plans to send a physical token to the moon in a December mission by space payload transporter Astrobotic.

DOGE rally is news-driven and doesn't represent speculative frenzy. (Thorsten/Pixabay)

Markets

Celestia's TIA Token Rises 200% Since Debut Despite Muted On-Chain Activity

Just 160,000 transactions have been facilitated on Celestia in the past 13 days.

On-chain activity remains muted on Celestia (Tyler Callahan/Unsplash)

Markets

DYDX Pumps Ahead of Massive $500M Token Unlock

The decentralized exchange debuted its layer 1 blockchain based on Cosmos this week.

DYDX token unlock (token.unlocks)

Markets

OMG Token Surges 16% as Vitalik Buterin Hails the 'Return of Plasma'

Buterin wrote that he believes Plasma, an Ethereum scaling technology that has been ousted by rollups, has the potential to reduce transaction fees.

Vitalik Buterin shares a new blog post on Ethereum's roadmap to address scaling, privacy, and wallet security. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Ethereum Wallet Drainer Steals $60M in Six Months

Hackers are using a piece of code called Create2 to bypass security alerts when users sign malicious signatures.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Finance

Cboe Digital to Launch Margined Futures for Bitcoin, Ether

Cboe will become the first regulated U.S. exchange to offer both spot and futures markets on a single platform.

(Neal Kharawala/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto News Site The Block Bought by Foresight Ventures in $70M Deal

The crypto data and news site plans to expand in Asia and the Middle East.

hand holding $20 bill in front of trees

Finance

Hacker Steals $27M in Tether From Wallet Linked to Binance Deployer

The funds were then bridged to bitcoin on the THORChain bridge.

Two RPC interfaces for Polygon and Fantom were impacted in a DNS hijack attack. (Mika Baumeister/Unsplash)