Oliver Knight

News Reporter

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.

Latest from Oliver Knight

Finance

Voyager Token Jumps 20% as $7.3M VGX Sent to Burn Address

The burned tokens equate to around 30% of the total supply.

Nov 3, 2023

DeFi protocol OptiFi lost $661,000 in user funds after an update error. (Pixabay)

Finance

Singapore Police Issue Warning Over WhatsApp Phishing Scam

The scam lures victims in by prompting them to scan a QR code on a phishing website to secure credentials.

Nov 3, 2023

Police issue warning over WhatsApp scam (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)

Policy

SafeMoon Execs Arrested by DOJ in Fraud Investigation, Charged by SEC

Crypto company SafeMoon's CEO and chief technology officer were arrested, accused of withdrawing more than $200M to buy luxury cars and homes from funds that they told investors were "locked," according to the DOJ and the regulator.

Nov 1, 2023

The U.S. Department of Justice grabbed another of the men it alleges moved billions in criminal money at BTC-e. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitget Embroiled in Bitter $10M Dispute With Floki Over TokenFi Memecoin Listing

Floki Inu alleges that Bitget created a $10 million hole by selling tokens that it didn't hold, effectively creating a synthetic short position.

Nov 1, 2023

Floki involved in dispute with Bitget (Bob Brewer/Unsplash)

Tech

How a Ph.D. Student's Research Paper Turned Celestia Into $345M Blockchain Project Overnight

This week's launch of the new "data availability" network Celestia came with an airdrop of the project's TIA tokens, one of the most anticipated giveaways in the crypto industry of the past year.

Nov 1, 2023