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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Crypto Trader Tantra to Liquidate After 'GBTC Discount' Widens to Record

The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) has been trading at a steep discount since last February, but a further widening proved too much for one trading firm.

(moonjazz via Flickr)

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Ether, Altcoins Tank, With Bitcoin as Decoupling Narrative Goes Up in Smoke

Centralized liquidity appears to be dictating the market value of cryptocurrencies promising decentralization.

Ether's price slide (CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Dips Below $40K During Broader Asia Market Sell-Off

Ether, Solana and other layer 1-associated coins also slip during Asia trading day

Bitcoin's price fell below $40,000 for the first time in months in the early hours of Jan. 21. (CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index)

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The 3 Reasons Behind Bitcoin-Holder El Salvador's Deteriorating Creditworthiness

President Bukele's bitcoin policy and hawkish Fed expectations are clouding the credit outlook.

El Salvador's five-year credit default swap. (Bloomberg)

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Cardano's ADA Token Leads Crypto Majors Lower, Bitcoin Nears $41K as Bond Yields Rise

Bitcoin appears to have led Nasdaq and other risk assets in pricing Fed jitters.

Cardano's ADA token drops 10% (Tradingview)

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Opyn’s New ‘Squeeth’ Raises Ether Trading to the Power of Two

In yet another example of the crypto industry's tendency to combine innovation with leverage, the new "Squeeth" index (for squared-ether) turns the options trade into a perpetual contract and can be used as a hedge.

Aster hits $64 billion in daily volume as traders flock to leverage (Creative Commons)

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Bitcoin May Soon Wake From Slumber, Derivatives Data Indicates

Futures markets remain a powder keg for short-term volatility, one observer said.

Bitcoin traders may get busy again, as high futures open interest points to renewed price volatility (Source: Pixabay)

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Binance Destroys 1.6M BNB Tokens in First-Ever Auto Burn

Token burns are supposedly deflationary and usually meant to bring a store of value appeal to the cryptocurrency.

(Pixabay)

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Bitcoin: piso de $40.000 no es seguro ante inactividad de institucionales

Un analista dijo que a los operadores les conviene más operar con la volatilidad de la criptomoneda que hacer apuestas direccionales.

Gráfico que muestra el descenso de bitcoin en poder de fondos estadounidenses y canadienses, y de ETFs y ETPs canadienses y europeos. (ByteTree)

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Technical Indicator Points to Bitcoin Price Bounce

The impending bearish moving-average crossover on the weekly chart has proven to be a contrary indicator in the past.

Bitcoin's price chart showing an impending bear cross between the 10- and 50-week moving averages. (TradingView)