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

Celsius Network Pauses AMAs, With Customers Left in the Dark Over Withdrawals

Celsius has not yet provided an update on the status of withdrawals from its platform as regulators investigate.

Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Babel Finance Reaches Debt Agreement With Counterparties After Withdrawal Freeze

The company will continue to communicate with shareholders as it looks to obtain liquidity support.

Flex Yang, co-founder of Babel Finance

Finance

DeFi Protocol Solend Passes Governance Vote to Reverse ‘Emergency Powers’

An emergency governance vote has been passed as Solend plans to take less drastic measures on the liquidation of a large Solana borrower.

(Arnaud Jaegers/Unsplash)

Finance

FTX Agrees to Acquire Canadian Trading Platform Bitvo as It Eyes Regional Expansion

FTX's decision to acquire Bitvo comes after rival exchange Binance pulled out of Ontario amid regulatory pressure last year.

Sam Bankman-Fried speaks at Crypto Bahamas 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Finance

Babel Finance Suspends Withdrawals, Citing 'Unusual Liquidity Pressures'

Babel Finance has responded to a market downturn by temporarily freezing withdrawals and redemptions.

Hong Kong where Tether is headquartered (Ruslan Bardash/Unsplash).

Finance

Finblox Imposes $1.5K Monthly Withdrawal Limit Amid Three Arrows Capital Uncertainty

Finblox said it intends to evaluate the impact of Three Arrow Capital on liquidity.

3AC co-founder Su Zhu speaks at Crypto Bahamas. (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)

Finance

Animoca Brands Acquires Most of Educational Tech Company TinyTap for $38.9M

Hong Kong-based gaming investment firm Animoca made the acquisition one week after it revealed a $1.5 billion portfolio.

Yat Siu

Markets

Binance, Kraken y Polygon aceleran contrataciones en respuesta a despidos masivos en la industria

Coinbase, BlockFi y Crypto.com se encuentran entre las compañías cripto que anunciaron recortes esta semana.

Binance, Kraken y Polygon están contratando mientras el mercado está en baja. (Clem Onojeghuo/Unsplash)

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Finance

Binance, Kraken and Polygon Accelerate Hiring in Response to Industry-Wide Job Cuts

Coinbase, BlockFi and Crypto.com are among the crypto-related companies announcing layoffs this week.

Binance, Kraken y Polygon están contratando mientras el mercado está en baja. (Clem Onojeghuo/Unsplash)

Finance

Asset Manager AllianceBernstein to Add Blockchain Technology in Deal With Allfunds Unit

AllianceBernstein said blockchain technology will be transformative to the asset-management business.

Fusión exitosa de Ethereum en la testnet de Ropsten. (PineWatt/Unsplash)