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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Brazil moves to ban algorithmic and other stablecoins like Ethena’s USDe

New legislation requires all stablecoins to be fully backed by reserve assets and introduces penalties for issuing unbacked, algorithmic or other stablecoins.

Brazil's flag (Rafaela Biazi/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Crypto steadies after selloff as bitcoin, ether rebound from multiyear lows

Bitcoin and ether are posting gains after a sharp market-wide decline, with derivatives traders continuing to reduce risk exposure.

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Bitcoin and ether are tanking, but DeFi investors are refusing to cave to the panic

Even as major cryptocurrencies plunge to multi-year lows and forced liquidations ripple across the market, DeFi’s total value locked has only slipped modestly.

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Bitcoin holds key support as 'extreme fear' grips traders

Major cryptocurrencies eased off overnight highs during Asia trading, with bitcoin steady above a critical support zone even as investor sentiment remains deeply bearish.

A climber climbs along a near-vertical rockface. (Patrick Hendry/Unsplash)

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Moscow Exchange to add SOL, XRP, and TRX futures contracts to crypto derivatives lineup

The new contracts will be based on indices for each token, settled in rubles, and accessible only to qualified investors.

Top of the Kremlin (Artem Beliaikin/Unsplash)