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

Near Protocol's Token Almost Doubles in a Week, Ahead of Nvidia's AI Conference

Near Protocol will be only few crypto-related firm that will be presenting at Nvidia's conference next week.

NEAR rises ahead of Nvidia conference (Gerard Siderius/Unsplash)

Finance

Donald Trump Sounds More Constructive on Bitcoin

Three years ago, the ex-president labeled bitcoin as a "scam."

Trump comments on BTC (Jon Tyson/Unsplash)

Markets

Unibot Tanks 33% After Ending Collaboration With Solana Group

From trading at a high of $77 at the start of the European morning on Monday, UNIBOT sank 40% to around $45.51 before rebounding slightly

16:9 Market decline (Mediamodifier/Pixabay)

Finance

Biden and Trump-Themed Meme Coins Take Center Stage on Solana

One of Solana's leading meme coins, dogwifhat (WIF), incresed by 48% on Wednesday.

New meme coin narrative emerges (Darren Halstead/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin/Euro Suffers Flash Crash on Coinbase

The tumble occurred shortly after bitcoin hit a record high of $69,325.

BTC/EUR trading pair on Coinbase (TradingView)

Markets

Bitcoin Hit a Record High. Here's What Might Happen Next

More than $84 million of derivatives have been liquidated in the past four hours, mostly long positions.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data)

Finance

Bitcoin Bridge OrdiZK Suffers Apparent $1.4M Rug Pull, Token Crashes to Zero: CertiK

The OrdiZK website and social media accounts are also offline.

(Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

Finance

WIF Rebounds on Binance Listing Plan as Other Meme Coins Run Out of Steam

Dogwifhat jumped by more than 25% after the crypto exchange said it will list the token.

The dogwifhat meme (Know your meme)

Finance

Omni Network Signs $600M Restaking Deal With Ether.Fi to Enhance Security

Both Omni and Ether.Fi have committed to EigenLayer's pooled security model.

Omni Network signs $600 million deal with Ether.Fi (Blogging guide/Unsplash)

Markets

SHIB, WIF Climb 60% as Shorts Lose $50M Betting Against Meme Coins

Pepe (PEPE), the frog-themed meme token on Ethereum, was up as much as 100% to set record highs.

The dogwifhat meme (Know your meme)