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

Crypto Market Maker Wintermute Hacked for $160M, OTC Services Unaffected

Wintermute's lending and OTC operations have not been affected despite the hack.

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Finance

Fintech Startup TrueLayer Trimming 10% of Staff, Citing Challenging Market Conditions

About 45 employees will be laid off from the firm, which was valued at over $1 billion a year ago.

TrueLayer to lay off 10% of its staff. (Pawel Chu/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Coinbase Enlists Broadridge Financial to Improve Liquidity

Coinbase will use Broadbridge's NYFIX order-routing network.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Thailand's SEC Bans Crypto Firms From Offering Staking and Lending Service

The regulator recently filed a police report against Zipmex after the exchange froze withdrawals in July.

Crypto exchange Zipmex said it has received an offer from an interested party. (Michal Jarmoluk/Pixabay)

Finance

New York’s Museum of Modern Art Considers Buying NFTs With Proceeds of $70M Auction: Report

MoMA has a team monitoring the digital art market and will consider purchasing non-fungible tokens.

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Finance

South Korean Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon

The warrant also includes five others, according to a report.

Do Kwon, cofundador de Terraform Labs. (Terra)

Finance

Crypto Exchange FTX Freezes Under Strain of CPI Volatility

More than $110 million was liquidated across crypto exchanges in the hour following the U.S. inflation report.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Wallet Service of Top Bitcoin Mining Pool Poolin Will Issue 'IOU' Tokens After Suspending Withdrawals

Poolin acknowledged liquidity issues last week and halted withdrawals on its wallet service the next day.

Riot Platforms’ acquisition of Block Mining makes sense, JPMorgan says. (Sandali Handagama)

Finance

Investment Giant KKR Puts Portion of Private Equity Fund on Avalanche Blockchain

The firm hopes that a tokenized fund will increase accessibility to individual investors.

(Sophie Backes, Unsplash)