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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.

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

News

Bitcoin Slides as Jobs Report Revives Fed Hike Odds

Bitcoin slid toward $79,300 within minutes of the August payroll release, extending its intraday drop past 2% as a blowout jobs report revived odds of a September Fed rate hike and pushed the risk-off bid across leveraged crypto positions.

Sep 5·3 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

Infrastructure

Base Traffic Spike Pushes Robinhood Chain Out of Ethereum Blob Space

A surge in Base network activity appears to have crowded Robinhood Chain out of Ethereum blob space, a contention event that highlights how rollups sharing the same data-availability layer compete directly for scarce blob capacity when one chain's traffic spikes.

Sep 4·3 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

News

CLARITY Act Senate Vote Puts US Crypto Policy at a Crucial Test

US crypto policy faces a defining checkpoint as the CLARITY Act heads toward a key Senate step on September 15, 2026, a procedural milestone that market participants are watching as the clearest near-term signal on whether federal market-structure rules will finally advance.

Sep 4·2 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

News

Bitcoin, Ether Jump on Fed Pause Bets as Leveraged Crypto Stocks Surge

Bitcoin and Ether moved higher as traders leaned into Fed pause bets, and the rally rippled through leveraged crypto stocks, which climbed even faster than the underlying tokens on the same session.

Sep 4·3 min read·By Oliver Benjamin

News

Bitcoin Hits $82,000 on Fed Dovish Signals as Ethereum, XRP, Dogecoin Jump

Bitcoin hit $82,000 on September 3, 2026, after dovish signals from the Federal Reserve loosened risk-asset conditions across crypto, lifting Ethereum, XRP, and Dogecoin alongside it as spot BTC changed hands near record intraday levels.

Sep 4·3 min read·By Oliver Benjamin