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

PancakeSwap's CAKE, BNB Lead Market as Bitcoin Range Tightens

The move comes as bitcoin has stuttered around $96,000.

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Markets

U.S. Bitcoin ETFs See Third Straight Day of Outflows, Totaling $494M, as BTC Stalls

Bitcoin continues to trade in a range that it has set since mid-November.


Finance

TON Blockchain to Use LayerZero to Improve Cross-Chain Functionality

Developers will be able to deploy tokens on TON from any of LayerZero's chains using a single contract.

(Jainath Ponnala/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Investors Lost Over $500M in Memecoin Rug Pulls and Scams in 2024

The majority of scams involved gaining access to notable people's social media accounts through social engineering.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

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Finance

OpenSea Denies Airdrop-Related Talk of Enforced Customer Identification

Polymarket odds on OpenSea issuing an airdrop before April spiked from 25% to 45% following the tweets.

OpenSea's Devin Finzer speaking at NFT.NYC in 2019.

Finance

Binance Bitcoin Reserves Slumped $355M in January as User Balances Rose by $4.4B

The ratio of Binance USDT reserves to user balances also dropped significantly.

Richard Teng (Binance)

Policy

Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev Released From Jail to Prepare for Appeal

Last May, Pertsev was sentenced to 64 months in prison for money laundering.

(Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)

Finance

Mining Giant Foundry Supercharges Bitcoin Layer-2 Rootstock’s Security

The move enhances Rootstock’s security while generating new revenue for Foundry.

Bitcoin mining farm (CoinDesk archives)

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Markets

Bitcoin Worth $1.6B Leave Exchanges in Biggest Bullish Outflow Since April: Research Analyst

Coinbase alone registered a net outflow of over 15,000 BTC Wednesday, hinting at a major institutional purchases of coins.

BTC exchange netflows. (Andre Dragosch, Glassnode)

Markets

Bitcoin Friday Futures: CME Group’s Top Crypto Launch Adds Options in February

These new financially settled contracts will expire daily from Monday to Friday.

(OleksandrPidvalnyi/Pixabay)