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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Hodlnaut Judicial Managers Say Lender Lost $189.7M in Terra Collapse

The company's records were not properly maintained and some company executives are not cooperating, the managers said in a report.

Singapore's Skyline (Swapnil Bapat/Unsplash)

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WisdomTree's Q3 Crypto Assets Under Management Falls 36%

The decline was 33% from the second quarter, which coincides with a downturn across the digital-asset market.

Asset manager WisdomTree (WETF) managed crypto assets worth $265 million in Q2, a decrease of nearly 12% compared to the equivalent figure of $300 million a year ago (Tumisu/Pixabay)

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Crypto Exchange FTX Is Working on Creating a Stablecoin: Report

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried also ruled out a potential acquisition of popular trading app Robinhood.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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A16z's Largest Crypto Fund Loses 40% in First Half of 2022: Report

Andreessen Horowitz has slowed down its crypto investments, making just nine in the third quarter, compared with 26 in the fourth quarter of last year.

A16z's flagship crypto fund loses 40% in the first half of 2022. (Haotian Zheng/Unsplash)

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South Korean Prosecutors Seeking 8-Year Sentence for Ex-Bithumb Chairman

Lee Jung-hoon, who led the company that operated the exchange, is charged with committing $70 million in fraud.

Bithumb is one of South Korea's largest crypto exchanges (Shutterstock)

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Crypto Exchange FTX to Compensate API Phishing Victims With as Much as $6M

Sam Bankman-Fried has said this is the last time FTX will compensate users for a phishing attack.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Turkish Authorities Seize Crypto Worth $40M in Illegal Gambling Sting

Investigators are probing a $135 million transaction that links back to organized crime groups in the country's capital city Ankara.

Ankara, Turkey (Ekrem Osmanoglu/Unsplash)

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Binance Wins Registration as Crypto Asset Service Provider in Cyprus

The crypto exchange can now offer more types of digital-asset services.

Binance has registered an entity with regulators in Cyprus. (Sasha Cures/Unsplash)

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Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon Still Says He's Not on the Run

The South Korean developer also continued to dismiss claims that $67 million was frozen on crypto exchanges OKX and KuCoin.

(Terra)

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Meta Platforms Follows Blockchain Firms in Joining Cryptographic Privacy Group MPC Alliance

The Facebook parent joins the likes of Bolt Labs, Ciphermode Labs and Partisia Blockchain in becoming a member of the group.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms has joined an industry privacy group that includes many blockchain companies. (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)