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

Tether Promotes Paolo Ardoino to CEO

Former CEO Jean-Louis van der Velde will transition into an advisory role at Tether.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

Markets

DeFi Is Losing the Race to Become the Future of Finance

Money market funds are offering more than 5% annual returns, Ethereum stakers meanwhile get just 3.3%.

(Noah Silliman/Unsplash)

Finance

Reddit's Fortnite Token BRICK More Than Doubles After Two-Months of Decline

Liquidity remains thin across Bricks trading pairs with 2% market depth on Kraken standing at $2,500 on both the bid and ask side.

Fortnite Reddit Token Soars (Vlad Gorshkov/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Prime Broker Membrane Labs Raises $20M From Brevan Howard, Point72 Ventures and Jane Street

Other notable names included in the Series A round were Flow Traders, QCP Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Electric Capital, Jump Crypto, QCP Capital, GSR Markets, Belvedere Trading, and Framework Ventures.

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Finance

JPMorgan Debuts Tokenized BlackRock Shares as Collateral with Barclays

BlackRock said tokenization of money market fund shares as collateral in clearing and margining transactions would dramatically reduce the operational friction in meeting margin calls.

JP Morgan office (Matthew Foulds/Unsplash)

Finance

WOO Network Buys Back Shares and Tokens From Bankrupt Three Arrows Capital

The 20 million WOO tokens repurchased from 3AC have been sent to a burn address.

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Finance

Crypto Investment Firm Deus X Capital Launches With $1B in Assets

The family office backed investment and operating company begins with an initial $1 billion of assets.

Deus X CEO Tim Grant (Deus X)

Policy

FTX's Former Auditor Prager Metis Sued by SEC

The regulator alleged in a court filing that the firm had entered into contracts with clients that violated auditor independence rules.

FTX Trading LLC auditor Prager Metis hosted a metaverse office launch party in Decentraland in October 2022. (Prager Metis)

Markets

Bitcoin Surges Over $28K, but Analyst Questions ETF Optimism Angle

Short liquidations on crypto-tracked futures may have contributed to the rise in bitcoin and ether.

(Shutterstock)

Policy

Coinbase Obtains Payment License in Singapore

The Coinbase International Exchange received regulatory approval from Bermuda's financial regulator, and Coinbase registered with Spain's central bank last week.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (Coinbase)