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

Creator of Controversial LIBRA Memecoin Introduced MELANIA, Says He Sniped Both Tokens

Hayden Davis said he refunded $5 million to Dave Portnoy who lost money on LIBRA.

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Markets

XRP in Focus as Elon Musk’s DOGE Sets Eyes on SEC

Market watchers believe a clampdown on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could turn out bullish for tokens previously targeted by the agency.

XRP primed to rise as DOGE spotlights SEC

Finance

Javier Milei Backtracks on $4.4B Memecoin After 'Insiders' Pocket $87M

Milei deleted his original promotional tweet and revealed that he wasn't aware of its details.

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Finance

PancakeSwap's CAKE, BNB Lead Market as Bitcoin Range Tightens

The move comes as bitcoin has stuttered around $96,000.

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Markets

U.S. Bitcoin ETFs See Third Straight Day of Outflows, Totaling $494M, as BTC Stalls

Bitcoin continues to trade in a range that it has set since mid-November.


Finance

TON Blockchain to Use LayerZero to Improve Cross-Chain Functionality

Developers will be able to deploy tokens on TON from any of LayerZero's chains using a single contract.

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Finance

Crypto Investors Lost Over $500M in Memecoin Rug Pulls and Scams in 2024

The majority of scams involved gaining access to notable people's social media accounts through social engineering.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Finance

OpenSea Denies Airdrop-Related Talk of Enforced Customer Identification

Polymarket odds on OpenSea issuing an airdrop before April spiked from 25% to 45% following the tweets.

OpenSea's Devin Finzer speaking at NFT.NYC in 2019.

Finance

Binance Bitcoin Reserves Slumped $355M in January as User Balances Rose by $4.4B

The ratio of Binance USDT reserves to user balances also dropped significantly.

Richard Teng (Binance)

Policy

Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev Released From Jail to Prepare for Appeal

Last May, Pertsev was sentenced to 64 months in prison for money laundering.

(Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)