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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Tech

Lightning Network Bitcoin Deposits Now Live on Binance

Binance joins Kraken and Bitfinex in offering lightning network deposits.

Binance sets up lightning network nodes (Leon Contreras/Unsplash)

Finance

1inch Token Surges 58% as Daily Trading Volume Spikes to 20-Month High; Investor Moves $3.7M to Binance

Open interest across 1inch trading pairs also surged from $14 million to $125 million during the move.

1inch chart (TradingView)

Finance

FTX, Celsius Bankruptcy Claims Can Now Be Sold on OPNX

Users will be able to convert their FTX or Celsius claims into the platform's reborn OX (reOX) or oUSD tokens.

Kyle Davies (left) and Su Zhu (middle). (Kyle Davies/X)

Markets

Early Shiba Inu Holder With 10% of Supply Moves $30M in SHIB Tokens

Data shows most SHIB market depth is under $1 million on various crypto exchanges, and a sell order of that value could move token prices by 2% immediately.

Bonk, un token inspirado en Shiba Inu emitido el 25 de diciembre, dio ganancias de aproximadamente 2220% a traders la semana pasada y registró una suba de 150% solo en las últimas 24 horas. (Payless)

Markets

Ethereum Tops New Crypto ESG Ranking, Bitcoin Slammed for Heavy Energy Usage

Crypto data firm CCData released the first institutional-grade scoring system that evaluates digital assets focusing on environmental, social and governance aspects.

Top ranking digital assets in the ESG ranking (CCData)

Finance

Silk Road–Linked Bitcoin Worth $300M Moved by U.S. Government: On-Chain Data

The U.S. government previously sold 9,861 bitcoin for $216 million in March.

U.S. government moves bitcoin (Blockchain.com)

Finance

DeepBook Brings Centralized-Style Orders for Decentralized Finance on Sui Network

The DeepBook central limit order book will allow traders to view order flow and market depth on Sui.

(Austin Distel/Unsplash)

Markets

MATIC Surges 10% as Polygon's 2.0 Upgrade Draws Closer

Open interest for MATIC trading pairs has risen from $109 million to $160 million in the past 24 hours.

MATIC open interest (Coinalyze)

Finance

DeFi Protocol Holding 55% of Algorand Value to Shut Down

Algofi will close following a sharp drop in activity on the Algorand blockchain.

Algofi to shut down its DeFi protocol (Nastuh Abootalebi/Unsplash)

Finance

Arkham Intelligence Rolls Out Crypto Data Marketplace; Privacy Advocates Cry Foul

Binance Launchpad will host a token sale for 5% of the ARKM token supply.

(Adam Levine/CoinDesk)