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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Finance

DYdX Passes Vote to Reduce Trading Rewards by 45%, Sending Token Up 29.89%

The DYDX token is up by 121% since the turn of the year.

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Finance

Coinbase Officially Suspends Binance USD Stablecoin Trading

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong previously said the decision was made due to liquidity concerns.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk)

Finance

$70M in Fresh On-Chain USDC Positions at Risk of Liquidation if Stablecoin Depegs by 10%

Traders betting on a USDC revival are in healthy profit but downside risk remains in the event of another depeg.

On-chain USDC liquidations (DefiLlama)

Markets

On-Chain Liquidations Beckon as Ether Slumps to 2-Month Low

A total of $119 million in on-chain positions are at risk of being liquidated if ether slides by another 20%.

Liquidaciones en la cadena de Ethereum. (DefiLlama)

Finance

DeFi Protocol Tender.fi Hacker Returns $1.6M Following Pricing Oracle Glitch

The bug allowed the hacker to borrow $1.6 million despite depositing just one GMX token worth $70.

Tender.fi's team (Tender.fi Medium)

Finance

Vitalik Buterin Dumps Altcoins Worth 220 ETH That Have 'No Moral Value'

The Ethereum co-founder said investors would lose "most of the money" they put into the coins.

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

Finance

Three Arrows Founders' Bankruptcy Exchange to Offer Claims as Portfolio Margin

Leslie Lamb, the CEO of Open Exchange, took questions on a Twitter Spaces on Thursday morning.

Three Arrows co-founder Su Zhu speaks at Crypto Bahamas (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)

Finance

AI-Focused ZK Layer 2 Blockchain CryptoGPT to Issue Own Token Friday

GPT token will be listed on Bitfinex, Bybit, Bitget and four other exchanges on Friday.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Stargate Finance Token Down 8% on Coinbase Delisting

The cross-chain bridge protocol is migrating to a new smart contract on March 15.

Stargate Finance chart (Cryptowatch)

Finance

Three Arrows-Backed Crypto Liquidity Protocol Rook Surges 23% on Fundraise Speculation

The ROOK token is experiencing a resurgence on speculation that Three Arrows' founders have completed a $25 million fundraise.

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