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

Ether Staking Demand Remains Unfazed as EigenLayer 100K ETH Cap Limit Filled Within Hours

Future cap increases will need to be approved by EigenLayer's multisignatory governance system.

EigenLayer deposits (Dune)

Finance

Friend.Tech Hype Sees Base Surpass Rival Layer 2 Blockchains in Average Transactions per Second

Average daily TPS on Base has risen by 156% in the past week.

Base hits 15.88 TPS (l2beat)

Finance

Mantle Stakes $66M of Ether on Lido as Part of Treasury Management Strategy

Mantle introduced a new governing body for treasury management earlier this month.

(Pixabay)

Finance

Terra Website Compromised; Developers Warn Against Phishing Scam

Terra warned its users to avoid using its website after being targeted by a phishing attack.

(NASA/Unsplash)

Tech

BNB Chain Exploiter Liquidated for $30M on Venus Protocol

This is the second major liquidation in under a week and potentially safeguards bnb prices from crashing suddenly.

(Mohan Murugesan/Unsplash)

Markets

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Sends $1M ETH to Coinbase

Vitalik Buterin transferred over $1 million worth of ether to crypto exchange Coinbase on Monday.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Lender Exactly Hit by $12M Bridge Exploit

The protocol becomes the latest in a long line of firms to be struck by a hack involving a cross-chain bridge.

Prime Protocol to eliminate need for cross-chain bridges (Charlie Green/Unsplash)

Markets

Single Trader Lost $55M on Ether Long Yesterday

That was nearly 30% of all liquidated futures on Binance, the data shows.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Avalanche Foundation Provides $3M in AVAX Tokens to Dexalot

The grant is part of Avalanche’s Multiverse initiative, an incentive fund that aims to push the growth of new subnets.

Avalanche (Pixabay)

Finance

Tether Stops Support for Bitcoin Layer Omni Citing Lack of Demand

Omni was the first transport layer that Tether used in 2014.

USDT chart (CoinDesk)