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

Circle and Near Invest $14M in Remittances App for Indian Diaspora

The app currently has 500,000 monthly actively users.

India's flag (Naveed Ahmed / Unsplash)

Markets

HyperLiquid Delists JELLY After Vault Squeezed in $13M Tussle

HyperLiquid ended the dispute by delisting JELLY and forcibly closing all positions.

Jelly (GirlWithRedHat/Unsplash)

Finance

LatAm Exchange TruBit Taps Crypto Lending Platform Morpho for DeFi Earn Offering

A better user experience can be created by having fintech at the front and DeFi at the back, also known as a “DeFi mullet.”


Finance

German Regulator Identifies 'Deficiencies' in Ethena's USDe, Orders Immediate Issuance Halt

Ethena's ENA token is down by 6.5% in the past 24 hours.

(nitpicker/Shutterstock)

Finance

How Ether.fi Retained TVL as Restaking Lost Its Luster

Ether.fi, the market leader, has 2.6 million ETH staked on its platform and has plans to become a neobank.

Mike Silagadze (Consensus Hong Kong)

Markets

TON Jumps as Foundation Says VC Firms Invested $400M in the Token

Investors include Sequoia Capital, Ribbit, Benchmark, Kingsway, CoinFund, according to a press release.

(Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)

Finance

Blockdaemon Acquires DeFi Connectivity Firm Expand to Bring Institutions to Web3

expand.network provides API access to DeFi, enabling connections to over 170 endpoints, including DEXs, bridges, lending protocols and oracles.

CEO Konstantin Richter (Blockdaemon)

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.