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

Bored Ape Yacht Club Floor Price Slides to Five-Month Low as Prominent Investor Dumps Holdings

The sell-off was spurred by one of the largest holders of BAYC NFTs.

Gráfico de precios de BAYC. (Cryptowatch)

Finance

Dogecoin Surges 5.8% as Traders Anticipate Elon Musk's Next Move

Dogecoin is beginning to retrace this week's slump after hype waned following Twitter's logo change.

A shiba inu the inspiration behind Dogecoin. (Minh Pham/Unsplash)

Finance

Ether Trades Flat After Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade

Analysts had been divided on how prices might react.

ETH price chart (CoinDesk and highcharts.com)

Markets

Trading Firm Sees Bullish Signs as Bitcoin Open Interest Surges to Highest Level Since FTX Crash

A rise in open interest shows more participation from crypto traders and a bullish market sentiment, a trading firm said.

(PeggyMarco/Pixabay)

Finance

Binance Australia's Derivatives License Cancelled Following Request by Exchange

The exchange will close all of its customers' open derivatives positions by April 21.

The Sydney Opera House in Australia (Stanbalik/Pixabay)

Finance

Bankruptcy Claims Exchange OPNX Stumbles Out of the Gate

Less than two dollars worth of trades have been executed in the 24 hours after the exchange went live.

Su Zhu (CoinDesk)

Finance

MicroStrategy Buys Another 1,045 Bitcoin for $23.9M

The company now holds 140,000 bitcoin worth about $4 billion.

MicroStrategy Executive Director Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Finance

Developers Fork Uniswap V3, Protocol Attracts $123M in Total Value Locked

The majority of value is locked on Binance Smart Chain (BSC).

(Remi Moebs/Unsplash)

Finance

Polkadot Registers Trademark for Blockchain Communication Platform

The trademark filing mentions social networking software.

(Parikshit Mishra/CoinDesk)

Finance

Ethereum Bot Gets Attacked for $20M as Validator Strikes Back

The incident raises questions about whether validators can be trusted, one former member of the Ethereum Foundation said.

(Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)