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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Markets

Crypto Traders Brace for Nearly $5B Bitcoin and Ether Options Expiry

Options are derivatives that give the purchaser the right to buy or sell the underlying at a pre-determined price at a later date. Quarterly options settlements are closely watched by traders.

Bitcoin options open interest by strike with max pain level. (Deribit)

Finance

Bankrupt Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific to Buy 27K Bitmain Servers for $77M

The deal will see Bitmain receive $53.9 million worth of common CORZQ stock.

Core Scientific's Marble facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Markets

Bank of Japan a Major Source of Uncertainty, Crypto Volatility Trader Says

While the Fed's tightening cycle seems to be in its final stages, the Bank of Japan is yet to move the needle on rates.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Optimism Foundation Sells $157M OP Tokens, Citing 'Treasury Management'

The token sale was described as a "planned event."

(Pixabay)

Markets

Optimism Quietly Rolls Out Third Community Airdrop

A further 570 million OP tokens have been allocated to future airdrops.

Globos aerostáticos (Pexel/Pixabay)

Finance

Binance Staked Ether Experiences $573M in Inflows This Month

Two days of inflows fueled a more than fourfold increase in Binance staked ether's total value locked.

Binance staked ether TVL (DefiLlama)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner F2Pool Returns 19.8 BTC to Paxos After Overpaid Fee

Paxos paid $520,000 for a $2,000 bitcoin transaction earlier this week.

(Sandali Handagama)

Finance

Hack of Vitalik Buterin's X Account Leads to $691K Stolen

Almost three-quarters of the stolen assets were in the form of NFTs.

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

Markets

First Mover Americas: Altcoins Start the Week in the Red

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Sept. 11, 2023.

(CoinDesk)

Finance

Decentralized Exchange Sushi Expands to Aptos Blockchain

Sushi has more than seven times the amount of value locked than the entire Aptos blockchain.

(Unsplash)