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

BlackRock's BUIDL, Superstate and Centrifuge Win Spark's $1B Tokenized Asset Windfall

Sky, formerly MakerDAO, announced last year its plan to allocate $1 billion of reserve assets in tokenized real-world asset products.

U.S. dollar (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Stablecoin Protocol Level Aims to Expand $80M DeFi Yield Token With Fresh Capital Raise

The protocol's lvlUSD stablecoin hit $80 million market capitalization since its beta launch and outperformed rival yield-generating stablecoins, founders told CoinDesk in an interview.


Markets

Cronos’ CRO Supply to Grow 200% After Last-Minute Governance Flip

Crypto governance is notorious for being community-governed in name only; with large token holders able to dominate any proposals and changes at their will.

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Markets

Gold Leads the Way, Bitcoin Follows; History Suggests a Familiar Pattern

Charlie Morris, founder of ByteTree, likens this gold rally to a "proper gold rush".

Stacked gold bars (Scottsdale Mint/Unsplash)

Finance

Cardano: Deep Dive on the Trump Reserve Token Whose Blockchain Ignores TVL

The Cardano Foundation measures growth in real-world use cases and not TVL.

Cardano at Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

ZKsync Sunsets Liquidity Rewards Program, Citing Bearish Market Conditions

The blockchain has lost around 50% of total value locked since Jan. 30.

ZKUSD (TradingView)

Markets

S&P 500 Enters Correction Territory, What Does This Mean for Bitcoin?

Historical analysis on S&P 500 and bitcoin corrections.

S&P 500 Previous Corrections (TradingView)

Markets

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial (WLFI) Completes $590M Token Sale

On-chain data shows that the project has raised nearly $590 million between two pre-sales.

Donald Trump speaking at the White House crypto summit. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

AI's Lead Over Crypto for VC Dollars Increased in Q1'25, But Does This Race Really Matter?

Despite the crypto 'Trump bump' at the end of 2024, deal flow still favors Artificial Intelligence. But is there a new preference for AI over crypto?

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