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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Tech

OKX jumps into AI agent race with new OnchainOS toolkit

Developer layer aims to stitch together wallets, swaps and data feeds for autonomous bots.

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Markets

Core Scientific sells $175 million in bitcoin as AI pivot accelerates

CORZ still holds under 1,000 BTC but look to "remain opportunistic" moving forward.

Mining equipment (Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin supply approaching 20 million: The final million will take another 114 years to mine

Out of a fixed maximum supply of 21 million coins, more than 95% of all bitcoin that will ever exist is now in circulation.

BTC: Circulating Supply (Glassnode)

Markets

Bitcoin’s 5% spike higher Monday driven by short-covering, not fresh buying, says analyst

Market data show rising open interest and large liquidation clusters around $65,000 and above $70,000, underscoring that the rally may be fragile without stronger spot demand

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Finance

Weekend warriors: How HyperLiquid became retail’s bear market playground

While bitcoin and ether remain in bear markets, HYPE has climbed alongside gold as HyperLiquid’s derivatives volume expands, weekend equity trading gains traction.

HyperLiquid continues to make money in bear market (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Markets

Bitcoin outperforms equities in risk-off session as Iran conflict enters third day

Bitcoin rebounded to $66,500 after weekend strikes on Iran triggered $300 million in liquidations. Oil jumped, equities slid and select DeFi tokens outperformed.

Map of Iran. (Tudoran Andrei/Shutterstock)

Tech

Flare and Xaman unlock one-click DeFi access for over 2 billion XRP sitting idle in wallets

The integration lets XRP holders deposit into yield-generating vaults through a single transaction without leaving their existing wallet or bridging assets manually.

XRP News

Markets

Bitcoin briefly crashes below $48,000 on upstart exchange despite crypto rally

A single large sell order triggered a 30% flash crash on decentralized perp exchange Lighter even as bitcoin was climbing elsewhere.

16:9 Lightning (Nordseher/Pixabay)

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Markets

Crypto investigator ZachXBT alleges trading platform Axiom's employee conducted insider trading

ZachXBT.alleges a senior Axiom employee used internal dashboards to access private wallet data and track traders’ activity, raising questions about potential insider trading.

Hacker sitting in a room

Finance

Decibel goes live on Aptos with a $58 million war chest and a secret weapon from Stripe's Bridge

After a testnet with 700,000 accounts and $50 million in pre-deposits, Decibel begins mainnet trading with an onchain order book and risk engine on Aptos.

Trading screens at sunset (sergeitokmakov/Pixabay/Modified by CoinDesk)