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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Finance

Pudgy Penguins PENGU Token Debuts at $2.3B Market Cap

$90 million worth of PENGU has traded in its first hour of release.

Image of several Pudgy Penguin NFTs (Pudgy Penguins)

Finance

OpenSea Foundation Cayman Islands Registration Sparks Airdrop Speculation

OpenSea recently announced its platform would be revamped in December.

Pudgy Penguins is a collection of 8,888 unique penguins with proof of ownership stored on the Ethereum blockchain. (Screenshot: OpenSea)

Finance

Trader Turns $2.5K Into $200K by Buying XRP With 500X Leverage

The position was dangerously close to liquidation before XRP moved to the upside.

Trade makes $200k on XRP trade (Rollbit)

Finance

Hailey Welch Goes AWOL After Failed Hawk Tuah Token Launch

The HAWK token has lost more than 95% of its value after going live last week.

Haliey Welch issues statement on HAWK memecoin (Hawk Token Page/Overhere)

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Markets

Jupiter DAO Passes Massive $860M ‘Jupuary’ Airdrop Vote

The revised vote changed how tokens would be distributed to users with additional checks to prevent tokens from going to mercenary airdrop farmers.

Jupiter (Kamran Abdullayev/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Movement Network's MOVE Trades at $1.3B Market Cap Amid Airdrop

The Movement Network was built using Facebook's programing language Move.

(Getty Images/Unsplash)

Finance

USDC Issuer Circle Cuts 'Less Than 6%' of Jobs Following Operations Review

The job cuts amount to about 50 people, based on June employment numbers.

Circle Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte (left) and CEO Jeremy Allaire (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

Dogecoin Mining Turns Out 3 Times More Profitable for This Bitcoin Miner

BIT Mining has made a whopping $100 million worth of DOGE on its Dogecoin mining operations, per a release.

A Shiba Inu dog

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Markets

Polymarket Bettors Skeptical Over Potential Microsoft Bitcoin Purchase

Shareholders are very likely to turn down the Michael Saylor pitch, Polymarket bettors are predicting.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (Microsoft)

Finance

Memecoin MOODENG Surges 67% After Coinbase Listing

The action breaks a two-week more than 50% slump in the price of MOOD.

MOODENG listed on Coinbase (TradingView)