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Oliver Benjamin

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Oliver Benjamin is a DeFi research writer at DefiLiban, specializing in decentralized finance systems, token economics, liquidity design, and blockchain market structure. His work focuses on analyzing how DeFi protocols function beneath surface-level narratives, with particular attention to incentives, on-chain behavior, yield systems, and emerging crypto infrastructure. He is known for producing research-driven content that explains complex decentralized systems in a structured and accessible way. Before joining DefiLiban, Oliver worked across quantitative finance, blockchain research, and digital asset analysis roles involving DeFi strategy evaluation, smart contract ecosystems, and market data interpretation. He holds an M.Sc. in Quantitative Finance from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and has completed additional certifications in blockchain architecture, machine learning, and DeFi research. Oliver’s writing combines analytical depth with practical market insight, focusing on system design, protocol mechanics, and long-term developments within decentralized finance.

Protocols

Valinor Launches Tokenized BDC Fund on Superstate

Valinor Digital has launched the Valinor BDC Exposure Fund (VBDC), a tokenized fund issued on Superstate's FundOS that packages private-credit exposure through a basket of publicly traded business development companies.

Sep 10·5 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

Protocols

CanaryFunds Staked TRON ETF Set for Cboe BZX Launch as TRXS

The reported product is named the CanaryFunds Staked TRON ETF, listed on the Cboe BZX Exchange under ticker TRXS, according to unconfirmed reports. The source publication date is unknown, so the word "today" cannot be mapped to a specific calendar date.

Sep 9·3 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

News

Bitcoin Holds as Oil Shock Revives Fed Hike Bets

equities puts renewed rate uncertainty on the radar for BTC-backed DeFi positions. The Federal Reserve’s existing split over inflation gives that uncertainty a concrete policy basis, while Bitcoin’s price resilience offers little evidence about borrowing costs or liquidation liquidity.

Sep 9·5 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

Protocols

Harmony Proposes Network Sunset, ONE Move to Ethereum

Harmony has floated a network sunset proposal that would wind down its Layer 1 chain and migrate the ONE token to Ethereum, a shift the project ties to an AI video pivot. The plan is a proposal at this stage, not an approved or executed change.

Sep 8·3 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

Risk

Alex Thorn on Hackers Behind Liquid Federation Fund Theft

Galaxy Digital Head of Research Alex Thorn is reported to have commented on the hackers who stole funds from the Liquid Federation, tying the incident to a large on-chain Bitcoin movement that surfaced in block 965950.

Sep 7·4 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

Liquidity

Bitcoin fund flows reflect Fed rate bets: CoinShares

The core claim comes from CoinShares: the direction of Bitcoin fund flows is being read as a response to shifting expectations about future Fed policy, not as a broad withdrawal from digital-asset exposure. That interpretation, and not any single flow figure, is the substance of the story.

Sep 7·3 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

Infrastructure

Solana to Triple Transaction Size for More Complex Trades

The change concerns how large an individual Solana transaction can be, measured in bytes, not how many transactions the network processes per second. Tripling that ceiling would raise the amount of instruction and account data a single transaction can carry, according to reporting on the planned upgrade .

Sep 7·3 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

Protocols

Harmony Wants to Shut Down Its Blockchain Over AI Threats

Harmony has published a non-binding proposal to fully sunset its layer-1 blockchain and migrate its native ONE token to Ethereum, citing threats from state actors and AI agents, in a plan that remains subject to governor feedback and has not been approved or executed.

Sep 7·5 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

Liquidity

StonkFun Draws Solana Trading to Raydium and Jupiter

StonkFun, a Solana launchpad that mints onchain coins paired with stocks and other assets, has an issuer-linked token, STONK, that is trading actively across Solana AMMs, with the headline claim that the platform is routing volume toward Raydium and Jupiter remaining unverified.

Sep 7·3 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

Protocols

Harmony Layer 1 Sunset: Ethereum Token Migration Proposed

The core claim, that Harmony intends to fully sunset its Layer 1 network, originates from a single reported headline and has not been confirmed by any fetched Harmony governance post or official announcement.

Sep 7·4 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

Risk

Liquid Network Pauses After Reported $320M Bitcoin Withdrawal

Liquid Network says it has paused its bitcoin sidechain after purported white-hat hackers withdrew an estimated $320 million in bitcoin from the Liquid Federation wallet, disabling bridge nodes and halting new transaction submissions while it investigates.

Sep 7·4 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

News

Bitcoin Price Outlook If the Fed Hikes in 11 Days

With the Federal Reserve's next policy decision now less than two weeks out, traders are actively pricing the odds of a September rate hike, and the question of what happens to the bitcoin price if the Fed hikes rates has moved to the center of every macro desk.

Sep 5·3 min read·By Oliver Benjamin