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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Finanzas

Poloniex Hacker Sends $3.3M Worth of Ether to Tornado Cash

The hacked funds had previously been dormant for 178 days.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Finanzas

Exploiter Steals $68M Worth of Crypto Through Address Poisoning

The victim was duped by a mimicked 0.05 ether transfer.

(Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

Mercados

Kraken's Indices Provider Anticipates $1B AUM in Hong Kong ETFs by 2024 End: Bloomberg

CEO Sui Chung sees South Korea and Israel as the next markets to list crypto ETFs.

Hong Kong (Ruslan Bardash / Unsplash)

Finanzas

LayerZero Takes Snapshot as Airdrop Draws Closer

The interoperability protocol indicated that there will be a series of airdrops.

LayerZero co-founders CTO Ryan Zarick and CEO Bryan Pellegrino (Chung Chow, BIV)

Publicidad

Mercados

Liquid Restaking Protocol Renzo Airdrops REZ Token, Debuts at $289M Market Cap

The token has $75 million in trading volume in the hour after claims went live.

Coins dropping / Getty Images

Mercados

Hedera's HBAR Doubles as Market Misinterprets BlackRock's Involvement in Tokenization, Then Falls 25%

The market gave back some of its earlier gains after realizing BlackRock wasn't directly involved in the tokenization on Hedera's blockchain.

HBAR Foundation said "BlackRock fund is tokenized," Crypto Twitter heard "BlackRock has tokenized fund." (Wikimedia Commons)

Regulación

Tether Will Freeze Wallets Evading Venezuelan Sanctions

Use of Tether has increased in Venezuela after the U.S. reimposed sanctions on oil exports.

Tether 's logo painted on a wooden background.

Mercados

Bitcoin Miner Hut 8’s Post-Merger Prospects Look Good: Benchmark

The broker initiated coverage of the stock with a buy rating and $12 price target.

A Hut 8 mining facility (hut8.io)

Publicidad

Finanzas

ZKasino Users Plead for Refunds as $33M of Bridged Ether Sent to Lido

Depositors were originally told that bridged ether would be returned once the bridging phase was over.

ZKasino sents $33M to Lido (Carl Raw/Unsplash)

Mercados

Bitcoin Rally Holds Around $63,700 Following 4th Block Reward Halving

Bitcoin had slumped to as low as $59,685 on Friday morning, then rebounded heading into the event.

BTC chart (CoinDesk data)