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

DeFi Protocol Synapse Responds to Selling Pressure With 17% Bounce

Synapse's SYN token recovered its losses after 9 million were sold by a liquidity provider identified as Nima Capital by the protocol.

SYNUSD price chart (TradingView)

Tech

Anoma Foundation Plans to Launch Privacy-Focused Namada Blockchain

The mainnet joins the ranks of at least 50 other blockchains in the crypto ecosystem as of Tuesday.

Awa Sun-Yin of Anoma Foundation (Korea Blockchain Week)

Finance

SOMA Finance to Issue the First Retail Compliant Digital Security

The SOMA token will be a non-cumulative, participating preferred stock of SOMA.finance and will pay a dividend of up to 10% of profits.

(Pixabay)

Finance

Connext Airdrop Marred by $38K Sybil Bot Attack

As many as 57,000 unique wallets registered for the airdrop.

Prime Protocol to eliminate need for cross-chain bridges (Charlie Green/Unsplash)

Finance

BitGo Signs Strategic Agreement With Korean Heavyweight Hana Bank

The Californian company will develop custody services and security solutions, local media reported.

(Pixabay)

Markets

Deribit Sees 17% Growth in Crypto Derivatives Trading Volume in August, Led by Options

Deribit registered an increase in crypto derivatives trading volume even as global activity declined by 12.1% to around $1.6 trillion.

Top crypto exchanges: monthly derivatives volume trends (Coingecko, Deribit)

Finance

Crypto Casino Stake Targeted in Reported $40M Exploit

Cyvers' platform describes the exploit as being related to a "private key leak."

Crypto casino Stake hit by $45 million exploit. (Carl Raw/Unsplash)

Finance

Synthetix Posts 12.5% Gain Amid Binance Outflows, Bucks Bearish Bitcoin Trend

One newly-created wallet withdrew $7.7 million of SNX and $3.9 million of LPT to prompt the tokens to surge.

SNXUSD chart (TradingView)

Finance

Binance's Head of Product Departs as Executive Exodus Gathers Steam

Mayur Kamat's departure follows those of Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillmann, Senior Director of Investigations Matthew Price, SVP for Compliance Steven Christie and Asia-Pacific Head Leon Foong.

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Slides Under $26K, Majors SOL, XRP, DOGE Erase All Weekly Gains

Only tron (TRX) and toncoin (TON) were in the green on Friday, up over 1% each on no immediate catalysts.

(PIX1861/Pixabay)