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

Wealth App Stratiphy Partners With 21Shares to Offer Crypto ETNs Under New UK Rules

The partnership launches as FCA rules change to allow UK retail investors to buy crypto Exchange Traded Notes.

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Finance

North Korean Hackers Have Stolen Over $2 Billion This Year: Elliptic

North Korea’s crypto theft spree has already hit a record $2 billion in 2025, nearly triple last year’s total.

Lazarus Group, a cybercrime organization run by the North Korean government, may have links to this week's exploit of Euler Finance. (Micha Brandli/Unsplash)

Markets

BNB Hits Record High Above $1,280 as Blockchain Activity Surges

The BNB Chain reported a record 58 million monthly active addresses, overtaking Solana, with growth driven by the decentralized exchange Aster.

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Ken Griffin Sounds Alarm as Gold Futures Tops $4,000 and Dollar Weakens

Citadel CEO warns of asset inflation and “de-dollarization” as investors seek safety in gold, bitcoin, and other hard assets.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin (Larry Busacca/Getty Images for The New York Times)

Markets

Solana’s $2.85B Revenue Rivals Palantir, Robinhood Amid Waning Memecoin Craze

21Shares’ Matt Mena says Solana’s $2.85B in annual revenue shows lasting strength across DeFi, trading and new app sectors even as memecoin mania has cooled.

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Morgan Stanley Recommends a 4% 'Opportunistic' Crypto Portfolio Allocation

The GIC described cryptocurrency as "a speculative and increasingly popular asset class that many investors, nut not all, will seek to explore"

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Markets

U.S. Bitcoin ETFs Log $1B Inflows Again, a Level That’s Marked Local Tops Six Times Before

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) is now its most profitable ETF for BlackRock, generating an estimated $244.5 million in annual revenue with nearly $100 billion in assets.

BlackRock ETFs Revenue and AUM (Source: Bloomberg Intelligence & Eric Balchunas)

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Uniswap, Aave Lead DeFi’s Fee Rebound to $600M as Buybacks Take Center Stage

Protocols are trying to make token design matter again and are actively routing value back to holders.

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Markets

Stellar Lumens Breaks Resistance as Traders Drive 3% Rally

XLM climbed from $0.40 to $0.41 over a 23-hour period as corporate trading volumes tripled, signaling renewed institutional appetite for blockchain-based payment networks.

Stellar Lumens (XLM) Gains 3% on Rising Institutional Adoption of Blockchain Payment Networks