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

AI Project Donut Raises $7M Pre-Seed Funding to Build Agentic Crypto Browser

The browser is designed to help its users transact, trade and earn in real time "like a terminal."

16:9 Donuts (congerdesign/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Russian Police Arrest Suspect in $3.2M Illegal Mining Operation: Report

A similar mining scheme occurred in the region in 2022.

The Russian flag waves against an almost cloudless sky. (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Ether Outperforms DeFi Market in May, Bouncing From Woeful Start to the Year

ETH is beginning to wrangle back control with rival layer-1 blockchains like Solana.

ETH price (CoinDesk data)

Markets

UNI Surges 10% This Week as Bitcoin Consolidates

It comes as the altcoin season index has risen from 12 to 25.

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Markets

CANTO Rises From the Ashes, Spiking 250% Before Crashing Back Down

The project has not posted on X since September despite claiming it would release a new roadmap.

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Finance

DeFi Platform Cork Protocol Suffers $12M Smart Contract Exploit

Cork Protocol has paused all markets as a precaution.

Hacker working on two laptops (Azamat E/Unsplash)

Finance

Telegram Signs $300M Deal With Elon Musk's xAI to Integrate Grok Into Its Messaging App, TON up 16%

Telegram will also receive 50% of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via the app.

Telegram. (Shutterstock)

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Markets

Crypto Market Sees $300M Liquidations as Trump Tariff Threats Flush Late Bulls

The leverage flush happened as crypto prices quickly dropped on renewed trade war fears, with BTC slipping 3% from near record highs.

Close up image of Donald Trump speaking at lectern

Finance

'Major Wake-Up Call': How $400M Coinbase Breach Exposes Crypto's Dark Side

Coinbase said 69,461 customers were initially impacted by the breach, but fears remain over the threat of real-world robberies.

Under a low-light red lamp, a pair of hands types on a keyboard. (Wesley Tingey/Unsplash+)