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

Tornado Cash Reportedly Suffers Backend Exploit, User Deposits at Risk

The exploit has the function to steal deposit data and deposited funds.

Tornado Cash website and Discord taken offline (Nikolas Noonan/Unsplash)

Markets

Early Uniswap Whale Sold $1M Worth of UNI as Price Surged

The wallet in question still holds $10.6 million worth of UNI tokens.

Uniswap price (CoinDesk data)

Finance

Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy Purchased an Additional 3K BTC, Now Holds $10B Worth

The company now has about a $3.8 billion in unrealized profit on its bitcoin stash.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (Getty Images)

Finance

BitForex Website Goes Dark Amid Reported $57M Outflow

The exchange's CEO stepped down in January.

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Finance

Layer-1 Network Flare Raises $35M From Kenetic, Aves Lair

The round includes investment from Kenetic and Aves Lair.

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Finance

Avalanche Is Back Up After Failing to Produce Block for Four Hours

Block finalization started to resume on Friday afternoon after developers released a software update that resolved a faulty logic in the code.

Avalanche. (Unsplash)

Finance

Paris Saint-Germain Becomes First Soccer Team to Validate a Blockchain

The club will reinvest the proceeds from being a validator into buying back PSG fan tokens.

Paris Saint-Germain stadium (Tim Lontano/Unsplash)

Markets

STRK Tokens Claimed Hit 420M in a Day as On-Chain Metrics Soar

The Starknet blockchain hit a record-high 1.06 million transactions on Tuesday, with a peak of 45.2 transactions per second.

Headshot of Starknet Foundation CEO Diego Oliva

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Finance

Starknet Token STRK Begins Trading at $5 After Mammoth Airdrop

Fully diluted value of STRK reached as high as $50 billion with an initial market cap of $3.64 billion.

Pyth issues token airdrop (ian dooley/Unsplash)

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)