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

While bitcoin holds near $63,000, some data points to pain ahead for bulls

Onchain data shows the bitcoin market price is only just above its realized price and demand is weakening, especially from ETFs.

A bear roars

Markets

There's one simple way to tell whether bitcoin has really bottomed. Right now, it hasn't.

Bitcoin's weekly RSI contains a critical level that has reliably separated bull and bear market regimes across multiple cycles. Right now, the indicator has yet to clear that line.

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Tech

Live updates: SpaceX rallies nearly 20% in first session, while bitcoin trades shy of $64,000

Crypto firmed across the board following the largest equity listing in history. The token most tied to Elon Musk traded right in line with the market.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Getty Images)

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Policy

Former SEC, CFTC Chair Gary Gensler argues that prediction markets don't overrule state regulations

The former regulator joined a number of interest groups in arguing that prediction markets are overstepping their bounds by offering sports-related contracts.

Then-SEC Chair Gary Gensler speaking at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association Treasury Forum on June 5, 2024. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Tech

The company that makes your TV is taking ads onchain. Arbitrum helped

LG Electronics has built a blockchain-based advertising platform with the help of Arbitrum.

Blockchain (Shubham Dhage/Unsplash)

Finance

Ondo Finance hires former Invesco ETF chief to build onchain investment products

John Hoffman will spearhead Ondo's expansion from tokenizing individual assets to full investment portfolios and strategies.

John Hoffman, Ondo Finance Managing Director, Head of Product Portfolios (Ondo Finance)

Markets

It's not SpaceX. Bitcoin ETF outflows may be an arbitrage story

While some analysts argue investors are selling bitcoin to free up capital for anticipated IPOs such as SpaceX and Anthropic, Sygnum's Fabian Dori says market data points elsewhere.

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Markets

Bitcoin advances, holds above key technical level that ether, solana can't break through

BTC's dominance rate has risen from last week's low, a sign of renewed capital flowing into the largest cryptocurrency as major altcoins struggle.

A trader stands examining a large trading graph in front of him.

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