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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Polkadot Registers Trademark for Blockchain Communication Platform

The trademark filing mentions social networking software.

(Parikshit Mishra/CoinDesk)

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Ethereum Bot Gets Attacked for $20M as Validator Strikes Back

The incident raises questions about whether validators can be trusted, one former member of the Ethereum Foundation said.

(Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)

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U.S. Government Sold $216M of Seized Silk Road Bitcoin This Month

The government will sell the remaining 41,490 BTC in four tranches this year.

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DeFi Platform Lido to Cease Staking on Polkadot, Kusama in August

The service will be terminated on Aug. 1 with automatic unstaking occurring in June.

(lido.fi)

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AllianceBlock Strikes Deal With Crunchbase to Bring Traditional Business Data to DeFi

AllianceBlock Data Tunnel users will be able to import Crunchbase data alongside DeFi data.

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Binance, CEO Zhao Sued by CFTC Over 'Willful Evasion' of U.S. Laws, Unregistered Crypto Derivatives Products

The CFTC alleged Binance offered unregistered crypto derivatives products and directed U.S. customers to evade compliance controls through the use of VPNs.

El CEO de Binance, Changpeng Zhao. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

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FTX Bankruptcy Estate Consolidates Arbitrum Airdrop Tokens Into Single Wallet

The estate now holds 33,125 ARB tokens worth around $42,000.

FTX bankruptcy estate consolidates ARB airdrop (Christine Roy/Unplash)

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A Three Arrows Capital Founder Talks About His New Crypto Bankruptcy Exchange

Kyle Davies, who created OPNX with 3AC partner Su Zhu, spoke to CoinDesk about their new venture, created in the wake of losing hedge fund customers $2.5 billion.

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

Finance

Binance Suffers Two-Hour Spot Market Outage Due to Software Bug

Exchange CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao described the outage as "unlucky."

Binance Logo (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Dreams of Rebooting FTX Face Cold Reality That Its Technology Wasn’t Well-Regarded

Woefully high latency, bugs in the API traders use to interface with FTX and coding mishaps plagued the exchange, according to several former clients who spoke to CoinDesk.

(Leon Neal/Getty Images)