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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Finance

TRM Labs hits unicorn status in $70 million fund raise with Goldman's participation

The company's software specializes in tracing cryptocurrency transactions across multiple blockchains, catering to increasing demand from law enforcement and financial firms amid rising crypto crime.

Unicorn sculpture (Juliana Araujo the artist/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

ARK Invest goes on $19 million buying spree as crypto stocks nurse losses

ARK added to its holdings in CRCL, BLSH, COIN, HOOD, BMNR and XYZ on Tuesday as bitcoin fell as low as $73,000.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood

Crypto Daybook Americas

How your brain may drive bitcoin higher

Your day-ahead look for Feb. 4, 2026

A group of CAT scans of the human brain

Markets

This onchain metric has identified the Bitcoin bottom every cycle

Convergence between bitcoin supply in profit and supply in loss has repeatedly coincided with major market lows.

BTC: Profit vs Loss SUpply (Glassnode)

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Markets

Crypto steadies after selloff as bitcoin, ether rebound from multiyear lows

Bitcoin and ether are posting gains after a sharp market-wide decline, with derivatives traders continuing to reduce risk exposure.

Still water. (Matthias_Groeneveld/Pixabay)

Markets

Tether scales back $20 billion funding ambitions after investor resistance: FT

Advisers are now discussing a smaller fundraising of roughly $5 billion, as prospective backers question both the size of the deal and Tether’s lofty valuation.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin's 'RSI' screams oversold. Here is what it means

Bitcoin's relative strength index has fallen below 30, signaling oversold conditions as the cryptocurrency trades near a key $73,000 to $75,000 support zone.

AI trading screens. (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

Markets

ETF that feasts on carnage in bitcoin-holder Strategy hits record high

Leveraged anti-strategy ETFs are booming as shares in the bitcoin holder slide.

water image of crystal ball. (Benfe/Pixabay)

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Policy

Crypto darknet drug kingpin Rui-Siang Lin gets 30 years

U.S. prosecutors say the Taiwanese operator of the $105 Million Incognito Market used cryptocurrency and anonymity tools before investigators tied him to the platform through domain records and digital traces.

Bubble packs of pharmaceuticals

Markets

CoinDesk Research: U.S. leads institutional crypto, Asia rules trading ahead of Consensus Miami

Asia’s dominance is visible across every major dataset in this report, but the U.S. is assembling the institutional engine for the next surge of global adoption, while Latin America is already proving how utility-driven demand can scale in the real economy.

Consensus Miami