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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Mercados

Trader Buys 2M Dogecoin Call Options as Meme Coin Market Heats Up

The options will expire on June 14 and have a strike price of $0.22 or about 31% higher than the current price.

DOGE Meme shiba inu (Atsuko Sato)

Finanzas

ZKasino Gives Users 72 Hours to Retrieve Their Ether

The on-chain casino received $33 million in deposits last month.

Zkasino has re-opened ether bridge to users. (Carl Raw/Unsplash)

Finanzas

Riot Plans Hostile Takeover of Bitfarms; Proposes $2.30 Per Share

Riot privately offered its proposal last month, with Bitfarms rejecting it.

A photo of four mining rigs

Finanzas

Crypto Lending Firm Maple Finance Unveils Syrup Yield Platform and Rewards Token

Maple’s Syrup promises users yields of 15% by depositing Circle’s USDC stablecoin into the platform.

(Unsplash)

Publicidad

Regulación

Hong Kong Will Inspect Offices of Crypto Platforms as Important Compliance Deadline Looms

Hong Kong's push to be seen as a major crypto hub could come under scrutiny if several or some of the 18 applicants for a license don't move past this important deadline.

Hong Kong (Dan Freeman/Unsplash)

Mercados

Dogecoin, Floki, Dogwifhat Start to Surge as GameStop Jumps 19% in Pre-Market

Dog-themed tokens tend to move after rallies in video game retailer Gamestop, a so-called “meme stock.”

(Dogecoin)

Tecnología

Solana Validators to Get More SOL as Fee Proposal Passes in Favor

Over 77% of Solana governance participants voted in favor of giving validators the full priority fee amount per transaction.

(Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)

Mercados

Mt.Gox Transfers $9B Bitcoin to Single Address as Part of Repayment Plans

Nearly 107,000 bitcoin have been moved since early Asian hours on Tuesday, with bitcoin shedding 1.2% on expectations of selling pressure.

Mt. Gox Creditor Kolin Burges confronts Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles (CoinDesk)

Publicidad

Finanzas

Ether ETF Listing Approval Sees Billions Poured Into Restaking Protocol Ether.Fi

The protocol now has $5.4 billion in total value locked (TVL).

Ether.Fi CEO Mike Silagadze (CoinDesk, modified using PhotoMosh)

Mercados

PEPE’s Surge to Top 20 Tokens Turns Early $460 Purchase to $3.4M

The recent surge in PEPE's value is partly attributed to its use as a levered bet on the growth of the Ethereum ecosystem, with traders anticipating the approval of a spot ether exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the U.S.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)