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

Joe Lubin claims DeFi is as safe as traditional finance, adding that bitcoin is in crisis

During an interview at Consensus Hong Kong 2026, Joseph Lubin argued that "blue chip" decentralized finance has reached parity with traditional banking.

Joe Lubin (David Paul Morris/Consensus)

Finance

DeFi is not really decentralized, it is unavoidably centralized

Rules are required to ensure DeFi projects grow and mature, which means they need layers of centralization before becoming truly decentralized. .

Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (Photo: Olivier Acuna/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Institutions fuel tokenized RWA boom as retail looks set to follow suit

From treasuries and funds today to equities and private assets tomorrow.

Who Even Wants Tokenized RWAs Anyway? (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin crashed to $55,000 on Bithumb after exchange accidentally airdropped users 2,000 BTC

An internal reward distribution mistake briefly sent bitcoin prices sharply lower on South Korea’s Bithumb exchange after users were mistakenly credited with large phantom balances.

South Korea (Photo by Daniel Bernard on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Markets

ARK offloads $17 million of Coinbase, adds $18 million of Bullish amid crypto rout

COIN lost 13.34% on the day to close at $146.12 amid ongoing tanking of the crypto market which has seen bitcoin fall as low as $60,000, its lowest since November 2024.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood

Markets

Crypto market brightens after selloff that sent bitcoin to lowest since October 2024

A brutal crypto selloff erased $2.6 billion in leveraged bets, sent bitcoin to $60,000 and left markets deeply oversold.

Trading screen

Markets

Weak earnings drag IREN, Amazon; bitcoin stocks rebound in pre-market

Earnings disappointments weigh on AI related tech, while crypto sentiment improves on bitcoin’s rebound.

Racks of mining machines.

Markets

Bitcoin is the third most oversold ever, says one indicator, and violent upside could be next

The Relative Strength Index (RSI), a popular technical trading indicator, has plunged to 17. Only the bear market bottom in 2018 and the 2020 Covid crash saw lower reads.

Bitcoin RSI

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Markets

Tom Lee's Bitmine may be buying ETH, but Vitalik Buterin and everyone else appears to be selling

Ether has dropped below $2,000, underperforming other major cryptocurrencies as selling accelerates from leveraged traders, onchain liquidations and long-term holders.

Bitmine chairman Tom Lee

Markets

Bitcoin, ether slide 7% as market 'fear' increases, liquidations mount

Crypto markets extended losses amid heavy derivatives liquidations and macro headwinds, with traders bracing for further downside if bitcoin breaks key support.

Bitcoin (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)