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

U.S. Sanctions Funnull for Role in Pig Butchering Scam, Huione-Linked Crypto Wallets

The wallets received payments directly from Huione Pay, a subsidiary of Huione Group.

Huione website (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

HashKey Group Lists XRP for Institutional Investors in Asia

The listing follows XRP's inclusion as one of the assets in the U.S. strategic crypto reserve.

Dr Xiao Feng, Chairman & CEO of HashKey Group. (HashKey)

Finance

Ether.fi Rolls Out Crypto Hotel Booking Service as It Takes Another Step Towards Neobank Status

Ether.fi's Cash product manages $25 million worth of user deposits just one month after going live.

Vojtech Bruzek

Finance

OpenSea Announces Upgraded Platform, Says SEA Token Airdrop to Come Later

OpenSea has still not set a date for the token release.

OpenSea platform (OpenSea)

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Finance

Nigel Farage-Led Reform UK Becomes First European Political Party to Accept Crypto Donations

The crypto donations can be accepted via a partnership with payments firm Radom.

(Ian Taylor/Unsplash)

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)

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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.

CoinDesk