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

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"

Markets

Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin and Altcoins Recover After $500B Crash

Bitcoin derivatives show renewed optimism after a leverage flush, with open interest and basis rebounding, while options traders tilt bullish as funding rates diverge across exchanges.

(Midjourney/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Investment Bank China Renaissance Plans $600M BNB Treasury With YZi Labs: Bloomberg

The proposed investment vehicle would be a publicly traded US company designed to buy and hold BNB, marking one of the largest single bets on BNB by a publicly listed entity.

Stylized BNB token logo (Midjourney/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Finance

Tom Lee's BitMine Bought the Dip, Adding Over 200K ETH to Ethereum Treasury

The firm's ether holdings crossed 3 million tokens, halfway through its goal to corner 5% of the crypto's supply.

Screenshot of Tom Lee on CoinDesk TV (CoinDesk)

Markets

WazirX Restructuring Cleared in Massive Relief for $230M Hack Victims

The sanction order followed an August re-vote that saw 95.7% of creditors by number and 94.6% by value support the plan.

(Credit: Unsplash, Wesley Tingey)

Finance

Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 Upgrade to Unlock Permissionless Perp Market Creation

The upgrade marks a major step toward decentralizing Hyperliquid’s derivatives infrastructure, giving builders the ability to launch perpetual futures markets directly onchain.

Privacy (Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)

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Markets

Synthetix Soars 120% as Derivatives Hype Reignites DeFi’s 'Dino Coin'

The DeFi veteran’s 120% surge comes ahead of a new perpetuals DEX launch and a high-profile trading competition that could reignite interest in legacy protocols.

SNX/USD (TradingView)

Markets

Ethereum's Fusaka Testing and Continued U.S. Government Shutdown: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Oct. 13.

U.S. Congress (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)