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

Bitcoin drops on Iran war uncertainty, AI tokens jump

BTC traded near $69,500 after failing to hold $71,000 as the Iran war kept markets cautious. AI tokens including ICP, FET outperformed on strong retail demand.

Robots (Unsplash/Sumaid pal Singh Bakshi/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Oracle jumps 11% premarket as AI demand challenges 'SaaS apocalypse' fears

Cloud and AI growth beat expectations while investors grow less worried about Oracle’s debt plans and software disruption.

Oracle building

Finance

DeFi lending platform Aave sees a rare $27 million liquidations after a price glitch

The blockchain data flagged shows a spike in liquidations over the past 24 hours. Some observers believe the event may have been linked to a price update in an risk-oracle system that Aave uses to determine the value of collateral.

(Getty Images)

Markets

A single crypto trader is sitting on a $194 million bet that bitcoin and ether will keep climbing

Whales on Hyperliquid are piling into leveraged bitcoin and ether longs as BTC rallies to $71K, fueling bets the cryptocurrency will break above $75,000.

Whale (Unsplash+)

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Tech

Nvidia's Huang argues AI creates jobs, not destroys them, in rare official blog post

The Nvidia CEO laid out a five-layer framework for AI infrastructure in his first standalone blog post in months, pushing back against the narrative that AI will destroy jobs.

(Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks at CES 2026 in Las Vegas/Nvidia)

Markets

Bitcoin climbs to $71,000 as dollar, oil weaken after Trump comments on Iran war

Crypto and risk assets rally as the dollar retreats following comments from Donald Trump suggesting the conflict in Iran may end soon, while bitcoin still faces a broader downtrend.

Donald Trump (Credit: Library of Congress on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin is beating stocks and gold as the Middle East conflict rattles global markets

Bitcoin has outperformed precious metals and U.S. equities since the war in Iran first began, softening sentiment after a rough start to the year.

Skyline of the Iranian capital, Tehran

Finance

Nasdaq and Kraken are teaming up to let you trade tokenized stocks

Nasdaq plans to work with Kraken to distribute tokenized versions of public stocks globally as the exchange pushes to bring blockchain infrastructure into traditional markets.

Nasdaq sign on a building

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Markets

Bitcoin rises as oil spikes, equities drop

Bitcoin climbed during European trading hours even as U.S. equity futures, gold and silver fell, highlighting its relative resilience to oil shocks and war risks.

Map of Iran. (Tudoran Andrei/Shutterstock)

Markets

Why bitcoin couldn't hold $70,000 despite its best week of Wall Street news in months

Institutional interest continues to grow, but a stronger dollar and shifting interest rate expectations are keeping a lid on the latest rally.

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