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.

Oliver Knight

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Markets

Arbitrum Token Settles at $1.38 Amid Airdrop Claim Chaos

The Arbitrum claim website remains down almost an hour after the airdrop launched.

ARB/USD trading pair on Uniswap (DEXScreener)

Markets

Arbitrum's ARB Token Trades at $3.99 as 625,143 Wallets Receive Airdrop

Decentralized exchange GMX becomes the largest single holder of ARB after receiving 8 million tokens.

Arbitrum airdrop goes live. (Pexel/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Bitget Invests $30M in Digital Wallet BitKeep

The exchange will use BitKeep to improve stability of security of handling multiple assets across different blockchains.

Brevan Howard Digital was among the backers for Puffer's $5.5 million round. (Pixabay)

Policy

Sushi DAO, Key Contributor Served With SEC Subpoena

The sushi token dropped 5.5% on the news.

(Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Exchange GMX Proposes Deployment on Coinbase's Base Blockchain

Some members of the GMX community have already voiced their support for the move.

Derivatives trading platform GMX has a proposal to deploy on Base, a new layer 2 network started by Coinbase. (Unsplash)

Finance

On-Chain Data Reveals How Trading Firms Worked the USDC Stablecoin Repeg

One wallet made $16.5 million in a day trading tether for USD coin and DAI.

Pérdida de paridad de USDC. (Cryptowatch)

Finance

Google Searches for Arbitrum Soar Amid Airdrop Announcement

The Arbitrum token will be airdropped to users next Thursday.

Google searches for Arbitrum by region (Google Trends)

Finance

Alameda-Linked Wallet Sent $100M of Stablecoins to Trading Firms After USDC Depeg

Three other wallets linked to FTX and Alameda sent $188.5 million in stablecoins to crypto exchanges on Tuesday.

Alameda Research-linked wallet transfers to trading firms. (Arkham Intelligence)

Finance

Decentralized Exchanges Posted Record $25B Daily Volume as USDC Depegged

The majority of volume took place on Uniswap and Curve as traders hopped out of, and back into, the stablecoin.

Trading volume on DEXs hits record high. (DefiLlama)