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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Policy

Canadian Regulator Seeks Feedback on Disclosure Rules for Bank Crypto Exposures

The country hopes to align local requirements with those proposed by international banking regulators.

Canada has unveiled new bank-capital plans for crypto (Pixabay)

Finance

Pyth Token Debuts Near $500M Valuation as 90,000 Wallets Receive Airdrop

The network has $1.5 billion in total value secured across 120 protocols.

Pyth issues token airdrop (ian dooley/Unsplash)

Finance

Tether Freezes $225M Linked to Human Trafficking Syndicate Amid DOJ Investigation

The $225 million was related to the "pig butchering" scam.

Tether freezes $225 million worth of its stablecoin (Jorge Salvador/Unsplash)

Finance

Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear Appointed as New OpenAI Chief

OpenAI ousted Sam Altman as its chief last week after the board said it no longer had confidence in his ability to lead the company

OpenAI (Jonathan Kemper/Unsplash)

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Finance

More Bitcoin ETF Rejections 'Quite Likely,' BitGo's Belshe Says

Belshe says the SEC could reject ETF applications until exchanges and custody separate out.

CEO of BitGo Mike Belshe in a chair on-stage at Consensus 2023 (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

255M Pyth Tokens to Be Airdropped to 90K Wallets Next Week

The Pyth network currently has $1.57 billion in total value secured across 120 protocols.

Pyth issues token airdrop (ian dooley/Unsplash)

Finance

A Physical Dogecoin Could Reach the Moon in December

Dogecoin community plans to send a physical token to the moon in a December mission by space payload transporter Astrobotic.

DOGE rally is news-driven and doesn't represent speculative frenzy. (Thorsten/Pixabay)

Markets

Celestia's TIA Token Rises 200% Since Debut Despite Muted On-Chain Activity

Just 160,000 transactions have been facilitated on Celestia in the past 13 days.

On-chain activity remains muted on Celestia (Tyler Callahan/Unsplash)

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Markets

DYDX Pumps Ahead of Massive $500M Token Unlock

The decentralized exchange debuted its layer 1 blockchain based on Cosmos this week.

DYDX token unlock (token.unlocks)

Markets

OMG Token Surges 16% as Vitalik Buterin Hails the 'Return of Plasma'

Buterin wrote that he believes Plasma, an Ethereum scaling technology that has been ousted by rollups, has the potential to reduce transaction fees.

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