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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Crypto Daybook Americas

Optimism creeps back into crypto, with the 2022 test still to come

Your day-ahead look for Sept. 17, 2026

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh stands in front of two American flags at a press conference.

Markets

Crypto rallies through the Fed's first rate increase since 2023

Bitcoin rose 0.88% over 24 hours to $76,621 as the central bank's projections implied only one further hike. Zcash jumped 23% to a record after Paradigm disclosed a stake.

Zcash leads altcoin rally (CoinDesk data)

Markets

Bitcoin faces 2022 parallels as Federal Reserve resumes rate increases

Bitcoin’s drawdown mirrors its position before the Fed’s first hike in March 2022, raising questions over whether a relief rally could precede further losses.

BTCUSD (TradingView)

Finance

Celsius sues BitMEX for $495 million over 2020 crash liquidations

The estate is chasing 6,360 BTC lost in the Covid crash — a leveraged long position that sits awkwardly with the lender's delta-neutral marketing.

Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky in shadow against a dark backgroud

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Markets

Bitcoin ETFs shed $450 million as Clarity Act fails

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs shed $450 million, the most since June, as the Senate's failure to advance the Clarity Act sent regulatory-sensitive tokens sharply lower.

ETF outflows hit highest level since June as bitcoin slides (SoSovalue, TradingView)

Markets

Bitcoin's Coinbase premium sinks to one-month low, here’s why

Weakening U.S. demand, a setback for the Clarity act and expectations of a fed rate hike weigh on bitcoin.

Coinbase Premium (TradingView)

Markets

Bitcoin gives back Monday's gain as Clarity Act odds fade on Polymarket

Bitcoin fell 1.7% since midnight UTC to $76,862, unwinding a late Monday rally as Polymarket odds on the Clarity Act becoming law this year halved overnight.

Bitcoin tracks Clarity Act odds (Polymarket, TradingView)

Finance

How a simple coding mistake let a hacker drain $7.8 million from a crypto wallet

Security firms traced the $7.8 million loss to a helper contract the wallet owner had authorized, not to Safe itself.

Hackers. Data and security breach. (Kevin Horvat on Unsplash)

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Finance

Trump's $800 million stake into World Liberty Financial's token now has a timeline to becoming sellable

Onchain records show that an $800 million crypto stake that matched Donald Trump's holding was moved into a vesting contract, locking any sales until 2028 after a mandatory 10% token burn.

U.S. President Donald Trump (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin climbs to $78,000 as crypto sits out the AI selloff

Bitcoin rose 1.9% since midnight UTC while Nasdaq 100 index futures fell 1.65% on calls to slow AI development and crude gained almost 4% on a Saudi pipeline closure.

Crypto diverges from traditional markets (TradingView)