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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Markets

All eyes on Strategy's June 30 ex-dividend date and monthly STRC dividend rate reset

Investors are watching the preferred stock's ex-dividend date and monthly dividend rate reset closely.

Strategy's Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin tumbles to new multi-year low of $58,000, but a short-squeeze setup emerges

Derivatives markets signal that betting on further slide in prices is getting overcrowded, setting up for a potential snapback.

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Policy

CoinEx denies claims it served as $3.84 billion gateway to sanctioned Iranian crypto firms

Blockchain analysts TRM Labs says CoinEx facilitated more than $3.8 billion in blockchain-traced flows with sanctioned Iranian crypto entities. CoinEx disputes the findings.

Map with a pin near Qom in Iran. (Tudoran Andrei/Shutterstock)

Markets

Crypto relief rally fails to shake persistent bearish derivatives signal

A relief rally tied to recovering U.S. equities lifted BTC and ETH off weekly lows, but bearish derivatives positioning and negative CVD suggest the rebound may be fragile.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)

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Finance

SecondFi loses $2.4 million in Cardano wallet exploit

SecondFi was hit by three separate attacks exploiting a flaw in its wallet generation software. A further 129 million ADA was secured by the team before attackers could reach it.

Hacker sitting in a room (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin just broke below the floor of its famous Rainbow Chart into the ‘BTC is dead’ zone

A 50% drop from recent highs has pushed the asset into a zone historically labeled as a dead end, sparking a debate among crypto analysts.

Rainbow Chart (Blockchaincenter.net)

Markets

Bitcoin clings to $62,500 as bears tighten grip on crypto market

Bitcoin held above $62,500 and ether near $1,665, but sluggish price action and widening put skews signal bears remain firmly in control.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)

Finance

YZi Labs ends proxy war with BNB treasury company CEA Industries

Partner Alex Odagiu will serve as an interim president, pending a search for a new chief executive, while head of YZi Labs Ella Zhang and Matthew Roszak also appointed directors of CEA.

Ella Zhang, head of YZi Labs, at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (CoinDesk)

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Markets

Crypto market drops as Nasdaq tech selloff spills into digital assets

Bitcoin lost 2.5% to $62,300 and ether fell more than 4% while $717 million in liquidations amplified losses across altcoins.

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Finance

A massive hiring wave reveals trading firms are no longer viewing Polymarket as a niche betting tool

While rising volume on Polymarket and Kalshi is attracting quantitative firms to prediction markets, they aren't focusing on event outcomes; rather, they're exploiting market inefficiencies for profit.

Giants quant firms are building out prediction market trading desk. (Modified by CoinDesk)