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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Markets

Nobody Wants to Sell BTC, Analyst Says as Bitcoin's On-Chain Activity Limps

Hardly any value is being moved on-chain, a sign nobody wants to sell, one analyst said.

Sunrise, boat (quangle/Pixabay)

Finance

AIOZ Network Partners With Alibaba Cloud to Boost AI, Storage and Streaming Services

Alibaba Cloud teamed up with NEAR to enhance web3 adoption in Asia last year.

Night view of Singapore from the habor. (Larry Teo/Unsplash)

Finance

Newly Issued Gaming Token Exploited on Blast With $4.6M Drained

The hacker attempted to contact the SSS team, stating their intention to reimburse users.

(Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

Finance

NBA All-Star Tyrese Haliburton Talks Ethereum and Potentially Receiving Salary in Crypto

Haliburton and slam-dunk champion Mac McClung both performed at the NBA All-Star event earlier this month.

Tyrese Haliburton (Coinbase Moonshot)

Finance

Ether.Fi's Token Falls 20% After Debut

55.76% of ETHFI's supply has been allocated to core contributors and investors.

Pyth issues token airdrop (ian dooley/Unsplash)

Markets

Billion-Dollar Volumes and Then a Steep Drop Prompts Allegations of Wash Trading on Aevo

In response, Aevo says customers suddenly traded more on its decentralized exchange to try to get some of its airdrop.

Aevo volume (DefiLlama)

Finance

North Korean Hackers Used Tornado Cash to Launder $12M From Heco Bridge Hack: Elliptic

The hacking group sent more than 40 transactions to Tornado Cash over the past 24 hours.

Flags fly in Pyongyang, North Korea (Micha Brandli/Unsplash)

Finance

Justin Sun Deposits $480M of ETH to Restaking Protocol Ether.Fi

Ether.Fi is nearing $3 billion in total value locked.

Consensus 2019 Justin Sun CEO TRON (CoinDesk)

Tech

Blast Blockchain Locks Up Amid Ethereum's Dencun Upgrade

Its mainnet stopped producing blocks around the time of the Ethereum overhaul.

Blast stops producing blocks after Dencun (Md Riduwan Molla/Unsplash)

Finance

Toncoin Rises 61% in Two Days as Telegram Eyes Potential IPO

While officially separate, Telegram endorsed Ton Network as its blockchain of choice in September.

Toncoin rises amid potential Telegram IPO (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)