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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Diario Cripto Americas

Oil shock and inflation fears drag down bitcoin

Your day-ahead look for March 3, 2026

(LoboStudioHamburg/Pixabay)

Mercati

Dollar surge pressures crypto markets after escalation in Iran conflict

Risk assets fell across the board Tuesday as the U.S. dollar strengthened to a near two-month high following renewed military escalation in Iran, pressuring the crypto market.

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

Politiche

‘Scam token’ case against Uniswap dismissed by U.S. district judge in NYC

District Judge says that due to the protocol’s decentralized nature, the identities of the scam token issuers are basically unknown, leaving plaintiffs with no identifiable defendant.

GenLayer is building an on-chain court system. (Credit: Unsplash, Wesley Tingey)

Finanza

Japan prime minister Sanae Takaichi disavows Solana memecoin after it crashes by 75%

Japan’s prime minister says she has no knowledge of or involvement in a Solana-based meme token that briefly reached a $27.7 million market cap before tumbling.

Close up of the red circle at the center of the Japanese flag. (DavidRockDesign/Pixabay)

Pubblicità

Finanza

Tether taps Deloitte for first USAT reserve report

The report is a third-party attestation, which provides a snapshot of reserves at a specific point in time, rather than a full audit of the company's finances.

Stylized Tether logo

Mercati

Bitcoin falls below $67,000 as U.S. equities slide and oil pushes higher

Risk off sentiment builds ahead of Tuesday’s open, with investors moving into the dollar and watching energy markets amid ongoing Middle East tensions.

a sketched graph, heading downward, on a piece of paper

Tecnologie

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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Mercati

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)

Pubblicità

Mercati

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)

Mercati

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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