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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Options Tied to BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Surge to Nearly 50% of Deribit's BTC Open Interest in Two Months

Options linked to BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF (IBIT) began trading on Nov. 19 and have since grown to half the size of Deribit's BTC options market.

(OleksandrPidvalnyi/Pixabay)

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Is Bitcoin Bottom In? BTC's Price Action is Inverse of December Peak Above $108K

BTC's latest price action seems to contrast sharply with the uptrend exhaustion observed at record highs above $108K in mid-December.

Bottom of a swimming pool. (xing419/Pixabay)

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Bitcoin Under Pressure as Goldman Trims Fed Rate Cut Expectations, BofA Sees Potential Hike After Blowout Jobs Report

Risk assets trade weak as investment banks pare back Fed rate cuts in the wake of Friday's hotter-than-expected U.S. jobs report.

Battered BTC bulls pin hopes on the Fed. (JamesQube/Pixabay)

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Altcoin Market Could Heat Up This Week With $3B Token Unlock Schedule, ONDO Leads the Charge

On Jan. 18, Ondo Finance will free up 1.94 billion ONDO tokens, equating to over 130% of the token's circulating supply.

Token unlocks worth $3 billion loom. (stevepb/Pixabay)

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Trump's Treasury Pick to Divest Bitcoin ETF Holdings to Eliminate Conflict of Interest: Report

Trump's Treasury nominee Scott Bessent plans to liquidate a string of investments, including BTC ETF, to avoid a potential conflict of interest.

U.S. Treasury pick up to divest host of investments. (Pixabay)

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XRP, XLM and DOGE See Recovery in Stateside Demand

These tokens are once again prices more or less the same on Coinbase and Binance.

XRP, DOGE and JUP rally (Jakub Żerdzicki/Unsplash)

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China's Central Bank Halts Bond Purchases to Support Yuan, BTC Holds Under $95K

The PBOC on Friday suspended bond purchases to stall the slide in bond yields and CNY

China. (Excellentcc/Pixabay)

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The Bitcoin Iceberg: Buyers Await Beneath The Bearish Surface

The market depth shows dominance of buy orders at levels away from the going market rate.

The BTC order book shows buyer dominance at depths. (NaomiBooth/Pixabay)