Omkar Godbole

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor and analyst on CoinDesk's Markets team. He has been covering crypto options and futures, as well as macro and cross-asset activity, since 2019, leveraging his prior experience in directional and non-directional derivative strategies at brokerage firms. His extensive background also encompasses the FX markets, having served as a fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desks for Mumbai-based brokerages and FXStreet. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.

Omkar holds a Master's degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation.

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Markets

One overlooked group has added $1.78 billion of selling pressure to bitcoin market

Public miners are an underappreciated source of supply hitting the market right at the margin.

Bitcoin ASIC miner (CoinDesk Archives)

Finance

Crypto.com rolls out tokenized stock derivatives as crypto exchanges push into equities

The exchange is joining a tokenized stock market that has grown 600% in a year, though its products offer price exposure rather than share ownership.

Kris Marszalek, Crypto.com

Finance

Here's what bitcoin and ether traders are doing ahead of the binary U.S. CPI print

Bitcoin and ether are stuck in a tight range ahead of the CPI. Here’s how savvy traders are positioning for the pivotal release.

Businessman table global finance and cryptocurrency markets (Jakub Żerdzicki/Unsplash)

Policy

Australian watchdog suspends Cryptolink, forcing 96 ATMs offline

The regulator cited missing transaction reports and the company’s failure to respond to an information request.

Bitcoin ATM being used (General bytes/Unsplash)

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Markets

Bitcoin stuck below $65,000 as Hormuz hopes evaporate, XRP close to dropping below $1

The Strait of Hormuz relief trade unraveled after Trump demanded 50 years of Iranian compensation, pushing oil back to $89 and leaving crypto and equities unchanged ahead of a pivotal CPI report.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data)

Tech

Nvidia’s $500 billion AI infrastructure push leaves crypto compute further behind

Nvidia has signed memorandums of understanding with six major Wall Street firms to establish "AI compute" as a bankable infrastructure asset.

(Possessed Photography/Unsplash)

Markets

A $2 trillion asset class is getting a new blockchain rail

ADI Chain and Shipfinex are partnering to tokenize commercial ships, aiming to open the $680B ship-finance market to wider capital pool.

Shipping terminal. (Niklas9416/Pixabay)

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Markets

Bitcoin's 'strongest hands' are back, on-chain data show

Elite wallets holding over 10,000 BTC has hit a six-month high of 90, building on earlier accumulation by mid-sized whales amid Coldcard fallout and Clarity Act delays.

It's the "strong hands" who are dominating. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, modified by CoinDesk)

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