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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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)

Markets

XLM Suffers Massive Sell-Off on Heavy Volume Spike

Stellar faces brutal selling pressure while institutional buyers emerge at oversold levels amid broader crypto market turmoil.

"XLM Drops 8% on Massive Sell-Off with Institutional Buying Amid Extreme Volatility and Market Consolidation"

Markets

HBAR Plunges 8% After Failed Rally to $0.20 Resistance

Cryptocurrency experiences dramatic reversal on heavy volume to confirm bearish momentum.

HBAR Plunges 8% After Failing to Break $0.20 Resistance Amid High Volatility and Volume Surge

Markets

Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin Tests Key Support as Bullish Optimism Fades

Bitcoin steadies around $111,000 after a bruising sell-off, as derivatives and options data show mixed signals between cautious futures traders and bullish options buyers.

BTC/USD (TradingView)

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Crypto Daybook Americas

Was $500B Value destruction Just a blip?: Crypto Daybook Americas

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 14, 2025

Roller coaster (Midjourney/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Metaplanet Trades Below 1x mNAV for First Time Since Starting Bitcoin Treasury Plan

Falling share prices push bitcoin treasury firms below key valuation threshold.

YTD Share Price Treasury Companies (TradingView)

Finance

Ethereum’s Fusaka Rolls Out on Sepolia; Hoodi Testnet Up Next

The test follows a successful rollout on the Holesky testnet two weeks ago.

BNB Chain to undergo upgrade in June (Moritz Mentges/Unsplash)

Markets

XLM Rises 6% to Recover From Weekend Plunge

Stellar posts dramatic intraday recovery from $0.33 support to $0.35 resistance as institutional money flows in.

XLM Soars 6% in 24 Hours with Explosive Institutional-Driven 3-Minute Rally

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Finance

Strategy Bought $27M in Bitcoin at $123K Before Crypto Crash

The firm acquired BTC at an average price of over $123,000, while the crypto was trading well below $110,000 during last week's carnage.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

HBAR Rises Past Key Resistance After Explosive Decline

HBAR surged past key resistance at $0.19 amid a dramatic volume spike, signaling renewed institutional interest and reinforcing bullish momentum after a 9% recovery stretch.

"HBAR Surges 9% with Institutional Volume Breakout Above $0.19 Resistance"