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

Founder of DeFi Giant Curve Gets Liquidated Again as CRV Slumps

Curve founder Michael Egorov played down the $882,000 liquidation on X.

Curve founder Michael Egorov was liquidated, again. (Michael Egorov, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Binance Abruptly Deletes Alpha Watchlist Tokens, Spurring Unforeseen Pump and Dump

One trader lost $102,000 after getting swept up in the short-lived pump and dump.

Binance. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Layer-2 Network Fuel to Airdrop 10% of New Token Supply to 200K Wallets

Fuel claims to be the fastest and cheapest Ethereum rollup.

Fuel to airdrop token to more than 200,000 wallets (Getty Images/Unsplash+)

Finance

Pudgy Penguins PENGU Token Debuts at $2.3B Market Cap

$90 million worth of PENGU has traded in its first hour of release.

Image of several Pudgy Penguin NFTs (Pudgy Penguins)

Finance

OpenSea Foundation Cayman Islands Registration Sparks Airdrop Speculation

OpenSea recently announced its platform would be revamped in December.

Pudgy Penguins is a collection of 8,888 unique penguins with proof of ownership stored on the Ethereum blockchain. (Screenshot: OpenSea)

Finance

Trader Turns $2.5K Into $200K by Buying XRP With 500X Leverage

The position was dangerously close to liquidation before XRP moved to the upside.

Trade makes $200k on XRP trade (Rollbit)

Finance

Hailey Welch Goes AWOL After Failed Hawk Tuah Token Launch

The HAWK token has lost more than 95% of its value after going live last week.

Haliey Welch issues statement on HAWK memecoin (Hawk Token Page/Overhere)

Markets

Jupiter DAO Passes Massive $860M ‘Jupuary’ Airdrop Vote

The revised vote changed how tokens would be distributed to users with additional checks to prevent tokens from going to mercenary airdrop farmers.

Jupiter (Kamran Abdullayev/Unsplash)

Finance

Movement Network's MOVE Trades at $1.3B Market Cap Amid Airdrop

The Movement Network was built using Facebook's programing language Move.

(Getty Images/Unsplash)

Finance

USDC Issuer Circle Cuts 'Less Than 6%' of Jobs Following Operations Review

The job cuts amount to about 50 people, based on June employment numbers.

Circle Chief Strategy Officer Dante Disparte (left) and CEO Jeremy Allaire (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)