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

DeFi Market Recovers From 30-Month Low as Volume Hits Highest Point Since March

Total value locked across DeFi protocols has risen from $35.8 billion to $42 billion in two weeks.

DeFi market volume and TVL (DefiLlama)

Finance

Gemini Sues Bankrupt Lender Genesis, Its Former Partner, Over $1.6B Worth of GBTC

Gemini has filed a lawsuit against Genesis over 60 million GBTC shares that were pledged as collateral.

Genesis (Spencer Wing/Pixabay)

Finance

Pepecoin Doubles to $500M Market Cap as Memecoin Fever Steals Bitcoin's ETF Thunder

More than 155,000 wallets now hold the popular memecoin.

PEPE market cap doubles in a week (Pepecoineth)

Finance

Binance Crypto Withdrawals Back Online After Temporary Outage

The last withdrawal from one of Binance's Ethereum accounts was sent at 10:45 UTC.

Two large stacked blocks displaying Binance's logo at a trade show.

Markets

Bitcoin Drops 3% After BlackRock BTC ETF Pulled From DTCC's Website

Monday's addition of IBTC to clearinghouse DTCC's site was a factor in bitcoin's explosive move higher.

Bitcoin chart (CoinDesk)

Markets

Institutions Race for Bitcoin, Sending CME Open Interest to Record High

Open interest for the CME's bitcoin product hit 100,000 BTC ($3.4 billion) for the first time ever.

CME dominance (K33 Research)

Finance

Pepe Memecoin Burns $5.5M Tokens Prompting 31% Rise

The token burn comes after concerns were raised over the team's multisig wallet in August.

Pepe chart (CoinDesk)

Markets

A Wild Few Minutes Drive Bitcoin Above $35,000 as ETF Excitement Starts to Thaw the Crypto Winter

BTC hasn't seen these lofty levels since May 2022, when the cryptocurrency industry was just starting to get pummeled by scandals.

(Clay Banks/Unsplash)

Finance

BTC Valued at $144M Sent to Coin Mixer From Defunct Darknet Market After Eight-Year Wait

The coins are linked to Abraxas marketplace, a darknet market that shut in 2015.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Finance

Solana's Largest Defi Protocol Marinade Starts Blocking UK Users

Marinade and Orca Finance have both blocked U.K. users over "compliance concerns."

Marinade blocks U.K. users ( Georg Bommeli/Unsplash)