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

Visa Says It Wants to Build the Rails for Lending in ‘Onchain Finance,’ Its New Name for DeFi

The payments giant’s latest report rebrands decentralized finance as “onchain finance” and positions Visa as the data and custody layer connecting banks to a $670B stablecoin credit market.

A Visa card being held to next to a payment terminal. (CardMapr.nl/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitfarms Launches $300M Convertible Note Offering, Shares Drop Pre-Market

Bitfarms share price has soared over 315% year to date, due to AI/HPC pivot.

Bitfarms Share Price (TradingView)

Policy

Australia's Government Proposes New Powers for AUSTRAC to Restrict Crypto ATMs

AUSTRAC said that the majority of high-value crypto ATM transactions were directly associated with scams or moving money to high-risk jurisdictions.

Parliament house, Canberra, Australia. (Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Faces Heavy Selling Pressure Despite Seasonal Bullish Expectations

Long-term holders and whales continue to offload BTC as profit-taking intensifies and the four-year cycle narrative shows signs of weakening.

LTH Volume To Exchanges (Glassnode)

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Markets

Stellar’s XLM Holds Firm as Institutional Interest Grows Amid Volatile Session

Stellar’s native token weathered sharp intraday swings, buoyed by strong institutional demand and surging volumes tied to WisdomTree’s new crypto ETP

XLM rebounds strongly from 4% drop amid high institutional buying and volatility.

Markets

HBAR Holds Ground at $0.19 as Global Headwinds Test Crypto Market Resilience

The Hedera token trades in a tight but volatile range as the crypto market continues to recover from the weekend's crash.

HBAR Surges 2% Amid Volatile Trading and Institutional Accumulation

Markets

Crypto Markets Today: Crypto Lags Behind Stocks and Gold as Traders Turn Defensive

Bitcoin traded near the bottom of its range at $112,000 while altcoins tumbled, led by FET’s steep drop.

(Ash from Modern Afflatus/Unsplash)


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Markets

Ripple Expands Custody Network to Africa Following RLUSD Rollout

Earlier this year, the firm announced a collaboration with Chipper Cash to power crypto-enabled payments and confirmed that its USD-backed stablecoin, RLUSD, would roll out in African markets.

Globe showing Africa (James Wiseman/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Treasury Firms Keep Buying Bitcoin. Outperforming ETFs Is the Hard Part

The boom in corporate bitcoin buyers highlights how fast DATs are scaling. But their model is fragile when outperformance depends on premiums, converts, and cheap debt.

DATs fail to Outperform ETFs (Gabriel Xu/Unsplash)