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

Babel Finance Mulls Crypto-Backed Stablecoin to Repay $766M: Report

The firm's sole director is hoping to roll out a DeFi platform to begin paying back creditors.

Hong Kong (Unsplash)

Markets

DeFi Protocol Yearn Finance's Token Rises 7% Despite Crypto Market Plunge

YFI is up 23% against its bitcoin trading pair over the past 48 hours.

Gráfico de YFI. (Cryptowatch)

Finance

IOST Network's Token Surges Over 8% on Deal With Amazon Web Services

The network will use AWS' computing power, AI tools and decentralized internet architecture.

(Nicholas Cappello/Unsplash)

Finance

Quant Fund Manager Numerai's Token Rises 9% on Report of Impressive Return

Numerai users input their trading, which are then fed to a quantitative model, and receive rewards in the form of the NMR token.

The NMR token rises 8.8% (Cryptowatch)

Finance

Algorand Wallet MyAlgo Advises Users to Withdraw Funds After $9.6M Exploit

John Woods, chief technology officer of the Algorand Foundation, said 25 wallets were affected.

Two RPC interfaces for Polygon and Fantom were impacted in a DNS hijack attack. (Mika Baumeister/Unsplash)

Finance

Stablecoin Lender Liquity's Token Rises 35% on Binance Listing

LQTY hit a 10-month high of $1.82 as trading volume surged by 382%.

LQTY rises by 35%. (Cryptowatch)

Finance

Metaverse Token Gamium Surges 340% After Meta and Telefonica Partnership Announcement

The token has a market cap of $29 million and has surged by 340% over the past 24-hours.

Gamium token (TradingView)

Tech

Mango Markets Will Alter Multi-Sig Feature to Mitigate Security Threats After $114M Exploit

The decentralized exchange will upgrade its security in a new version of its platform.

(Desirae Hayes-Vitor/Unsplash)

Markets

Token de Optimism sube 6,5% mientras Coinbase construye su capa 2 en la plataforma

La red de capa 2, llamada Base, no tendrá un token nativo.

Optimism rises 6.5%. (Cryptowatch)

Finance

Alameda-Backed Crypto Trader Folkvang Is Still Standing Despite Big Hit From FTX's Demise

The firm, which managed as much as $400 million in 2021, had half of its equity parked on FTX before it collapsed.

Founder Mike van Rossum (Folkvang)