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.

Oliver Knight

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Finance

Mantle Stakes $66M of Ether on Lido as Part of Treasury Management Strategy

Mantle introduced a new governing body for treasury management earlier this month.

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Finance

Terra Website Compromised; Developers Warn Against Phishing Scam

Terra warned its users to avoid using its website after being targeted by a phishing attack.

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Tech

BNB Chain Exploiter Liquidated for $30M on Venus Protocol

This is the second major liquidation in under a week and potentially safeguards bnb prices from crashing suddenly.

(Mohan Murugesan/Unsplash)

Markets

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Sends $1M ETH to Coinbase

Vitalik Buterin transferred over $1 million worth of ether to crypto exchange Coinbase on Monday.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Lender Exactly Hit by $12M Bridge Exploit

The protocol becomes the latest in a long line of firms to be struck by a hack involving a cross-chain bridge.

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

Markets

Single Trader Lost $55M on Ether Long Yesterday

That was nearly 30% of all liquidated futures on Binance, the data shows.

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Finance

Avalanche Foundation Provides $3M in AVAX Tokens to Dexalot

The grant is part of Avalanche’s Multiverse initiative, an incentive fund that aims to push the growth of new subnets.

Avalanche (Pixabay)

Finance

Tether Stops Support for Bitcoin Layer Omni Citing Lack of Demand

Omni was the first transport layer that Tether used in 2014.

USDT chart (CoinDesk)

Finance

BitGo Raises $100M After Scrapping Prime Trust Deal: Bloomberg

The raises comes nearly two months after BitGo ended its plan to buy beleaguered rival Prime Trust.

BitGo will offer digital wallet services in Italy (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Singapore's Central Bank Releases Stablecoin Regulatory Framework

Stablecoins must hold minimum base capital 1 million Singapore dollars ($740,000) and provide redemption within no more than five business days of a request

Singapore road (Shutterstock)