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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Meta Confirms NFT Rollout Across 100 Countries Amid Coinbase Integration

Following a series of testing phases, NFT integration is now live on Instagram across 100 countries.

Meta lanzó NFTs en Instagram en más de 100 países. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Chainalysis Estimates $2B Stolen From Cross-Chain Bridge Hacks This Year

This week, hackers used a vulnerability on the Nomad bridge to steal $190 million worth of crypto.

Chainalysis estimates that cross-chain bridge attacks have resulted in $2 billion in stolen funds this year. (Charlie Green/Unsplash)

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Fairfax County Pension Fund Invests $70M in Crypto Yield Farming Funds: Report

The Virginia pension fund has a series of crypto investments dating back to 2019.

Reston, Virginia, Fairfax County (Gerville/iStockphoto/Getty Images)

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Bitcoin Miner SAI.TECH Halts Kazakhstan Expansion, Citing Operation and Cost Uncertainties

The Nasdaq-listed company has scrapped plans for a second phase of power-supply cooperation in the central Asian country.

Bitcoin mining rigs (Image credit: Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

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Hackers Return $9M to Nomad Bridge After $190M Exploit

The popular Ethereum to Moonbeam bridge is working with law enforcement and data analytics firms.

(Shutterstock)

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Binance Investigations Officer: AML Cost Exchange ‘Billions in Revenue’

While venting to CoinDesk about unflattering Reuters coverage, the crypto exchange’s investigations team shared insights about the scale of illicit activity at Binance and its crime-fighting methods.

Consensus 2022

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Schwab Asset Management to List Crypto ETF on NYSE

The exchange-traded fund will provide exposure to companies involved in crypto mining, trading and brokerage services.

(Sophie Backes, Unsplash)

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Lender Babel Finance Lost $280M Trading Customer Funds: Report

The firm is looking to convert hundreds of million in debt into equity after a series of trading losses.

Flex Yang, co-founder of Babel Finance (Babel)

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ApeCoin Proposal to Fund 24-Hour BAYC News Site Wins Community Approval

The Bored Ape Gazette will focus on all Yuga Labs projects while while including NFT market data.

Millions of dollars worth of NFT exploits have occurred in the past few months. (Bored Ape Yacht Club, modified by CoinDesk)

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'Cryptojacking' in Financial Sector Has Risen 269% This Year, SonicWall Says

Cyberattacks targeting the finance industry are now five times higher than attacks on retail.

(Boonchai Wedmakawand/Getty Images)