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

Celestia Airdrops TIA Token as Network Goes Live, Claims Start of 'Modular Era'

Celestia has released its mainnet beta after issuing tokens to 580,000 users.

Arbitrum airdrop goes live. (Pexel/Pixabay)

Finance

LastPass Hack Victims Lose $4.4M in a Single Day

More than $35 million has been stolen in total, according to recent reports.

(Kris/Pixabay)

Finance

Celestia's TIA Token Trades at $3.15 on Futures Market Ahead of Airdrop

The token is set to be listed on Oct. 31 by Binance, Bybit and Kucoin.

A user examines prices on a mobile phone while looking at a graph on a laptop

Finance

DeFi Market Recovers From 30-Month Low as Volume Hits Highest Point Since March

Total value locked across DeFi protocols has risen from $35.8 billion to $42 billion in two weeks.

DeFi market volume and TVL (DefiLlama)

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Finance

Gemini Sues Bankrupt Lender Genesis, Its Former Partner, Over $1.6B Worth of GBTC

Gemini has filed a lawsuit against Genesis over 60 million GBTC shares that were pledged as collateral.

Genesis (Spencer Wing/Pixabay)

Finance

Pepecoin Doubles to $500M Market Cap as Memecoin Fever Steals Bitcoin's ETF Thunder

More than 155,000 wallets now hold the popular memecoin.

PEPE market cap doubles in a week (Pepecoineth)

Finance

Binance Crypto Withdrawals Back Online After Temporary Outage

The last withdrawal from one of Binance's Ethereum accounts was sent at 10:45 UTC.

Two large stacked blocks displaying Binance's logo at a trade show.

Markets

Bitcoin Drops 3% After BlackRock BTC ETF Pulled From DTCC's Website

Monday's addition of IBTC to clearinghouse DTCC's site was a factor in bitcoin's explosive move higher.

Bitcoin chart (CoinDesk)

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Markets

Institutions Race for Bitcoin, Sending CME Open Interest to Record High

Open interest for the CME's bitcoin product hit 100,000 BTC ($3.4 billion) for the first time ever.

CME dominance (K33 Research)

Finance

Pepe Memecoin Burns $5.5M Tokens Prompting 31% Rise

The token burn comes after concerns were raised over the team's multisig wallet in August.

Pepe chart (CoinDesk)