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

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)

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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)

Finanzas

Ethereum Wallet Drainer Steals $60M in Six Months

Hackers are using a piece of code called Create2 to bypass security alerts when users sign malicious signatures.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Finanzas

Cboe Digital to Launch Margined Futures for Bitcoin, Ether

Cboe will become the first regulated U.S. exchange to offer both spot and futures markets on a single platform.

(Neal Kharawala/Unsplash)

Publicidad

Finanzas

Crypto News Site The Block Bought by Foresight Ventures in $70M Deal

The crypto data and news site plans to expand in Asia and the Middle East.

hand holding $20 bill in front of trees

Finanzas

Hacker Steals $27M in Tether From Wallet Linked to Binance Deployer

The funds were then bridged to bitcoin on the THORChain bridge.

Two RPC interfaces for Polygon and Fantom were impacted in a DNS hijack attack. (Mika Baumeister/Unsplash)

Mercados

GROK Token, Inspired by Elon Musk’s Grok AI, Hits $160M Capitalization in Latest Frenzy

Total liquidity for the token is a paltry $3.5 million on decentralized exchanges, meaning a single significant sale could instantly topple the rise.

Elon Musk (Daniel Oberhaus/Flickr)

Finanzas

Grayscale's Solana Trust Trades at 869% Premium as Institutions Flock to SOL

The rise in premium comes as CME Group overtook Binance in share of the crypto derivatives market, a sign of institutional interest.

Solana chart (CoinDesk data)

Publicidad

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Crypto Lender Hodlnaut to Be Liquidated, Court Filing Shows

A winding up order was filed by Hodlnaut's liquidators on May of this year.

(Sasun Bughdary/Unsplash)

Finanzas

Poloniex Hot Wallets Hacked With $114M Seemingly Stolen: On-Chain Data

Poloniex investor Justin Sun confirmed the exploit, saying the exchange will reimburse affected users and offering a "white hat bounty" to the hacker.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)