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

Sui Overtakes Aptos, Cardano in Value Locked; Sees $310M Inflow in 30 Days

The Sui blockchain reached a peak of 6,000 TPS in December as it produced 13.8 million blocks in one day.

Sui blockchain TVL (DefiLlama)

Markets

2 Reasons Bitcoin Could Challenge Record High of $69K Before Halving

Data from past cycles entered around halvings and a key technical analysis tool suggest that the path of least resistance is higher.

Bitcoin could hit a new record high in two months. (Kurt Cotoaga/Unsplash)

Finance

Revolut to Introduce Crypto Exchange Targeting 'Advanced Traders'

The platform will feature deeper analytics and lower fees than the digital bank's app.

Revolut to Suspend Certain Crypto Services (Kaysha/ Unsplash)

Finance

EigenLayer's Cap Lift Prompts $4B Inflow as ETH Restaking Heats Up

Capital locked on restaking protocols is now at $10 billion, in December it was just $350 million.

Eigenlayer TVL (DefiLlama)

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Finance

EigenLayer Lifts Staking Cap, TVL Soars Past $3B

The temporary lift comes as restaking on Ethereum is booming despite warnings from developers that it might strain the network.

EigenLayer CEO Sreeram Kannan. (Bradley Keoun)

Finance

Celsius' Bitcoin Mining Assets to Restart as New Firm Prepares to Go Public

The new company, Ionic Digital, expects to hit mining capacity of 12.7 exahash per second (EH/s).

Ionic's CEO Matt Prusak (Ionic Digital)

Finance

Market Manipulation May Have Hit Majority of New Ethereum Tokens in 2023: Chainalysis

A new study by the on-chain sleuth found possible pump and dump patterns for 54% of tokens listed in 2023.

(Walking Tour Salzburg/Unsplash)

Finance

Germany Banking Giant DZ to Pilot Crypto Trading This Year: Bloomberg

The bank released a cryptocurrency custody platform in November.

Frankfurt, Germany (Sinan Erg/Unsplash)

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Policy

India Keeps Stiff Taxes on Crypto as Interim-Budget Is Revealed in Election Year

Expectations were low for a change in the stiff taxes on crypto transactions: a 30% tax on profits and a 1% TDS on all transactions.

(L-R) Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India and Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian Finance Minister at the G20 Annual Meetings, in Washington DC in October 2022. (Indian Ministry of Finance)

Markets

It May Be Time for Bitcoin Traders to Focus on John Bollinger's Price Bands Again

Bitcoin's monthly chart Bollinger bandwidth resembles a pattern seen before the near-vertical rallies of 2020 and 2016.

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