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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Despite Trump’s pledge, a CBDC is being explored behind closed doors, says former CTFC chair

Publicly, the U.S. has fiercely opposed a Central Bank Digital Currency, but former CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad said it is inevitable and there will be one sooner or later.

Timonthy Massad. (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin treads water near pivotal monthly close while speculative tokens retreat

Bitcoin held near $76,800 as altcoins weakened, WLFI slid and traders watched whether the largest cryptocurrency can hold Tom Lee's line in the sand.

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Bitcoin slides below $77,000 as Trump’s Iran warning rattles risk assets

Bitcoin and ether sank after the U.S. president told Iran the “clock is ticking,” sending oil higher and triggering broad crypto liquidations.

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Saudi Arabia is tokenizing its multi-trillion dollar economy to protect its wealth from global shocks

The chairman of droppRWA has secured $12.5 billion in mandates to tokenized real estate and his plans are to go beyond properties to bring trillions of dollars onchain.

Faisal Monai, the architect of the Saudi kingdom's modern financial plumbing. (Faisal Monai/Press Team)

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Why bitcoin’s recent climb to $80,000 might just be a temporary liquidity squeeze

Spot ETF outflows and a hawkish Federal Reserve are creating a "macro ceiling" that makes a new all-time high unlikely without a major geopolitical shift.

A hand squeezing a lemon. (j4p4n/OpenClipArt)

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Turnkey raises $12.5 million in round backed by Circle Ventures and Sequoia Capital

The new capital will primarily fund the development and public launch of Turnkey Verifiable Cloud, a secure computing product for digital assets.

Stacks of 100 dollar bills (Dmytro Glazunov/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin stuck below $80,000 as leveraged longs unwind, altcoins slide

Crypto markets weakened as inflation fears hit risk assets, triggering long liquidations, negative derivatives flows and renewed pressure on altcoins.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)

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Bitcoin’s bull-bear cycle indicator turns green for first time since March 2023

While some experts point to $90,000 as the next explosive level, others caution that this new "early bull" signal isn't a guaranteed crystal ball.

AI trading screens. (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

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France’s central banker Beau clashes with Lagarde over private digital euro plans

France’s central bank deputy governor told CoinDesk public and private European entities need to get involved in digital asset development, diverging sharply from Christine Lagarde’s stance.

France Central Bank Deputy Governor Denis Beau. (Banque de France/Press)

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EBay rejects GameStop’s $56 billion bid, putting bitcoin exposure back in focus

The online marketplace's board called the half-cash, half-stock offer "neither credible nor attractive" Tuesday.

A GameStop store (CoinDesk Archive)