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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Paxos Fat-Fingers $300T of PayPal Stablecoin, Outpacing USD's $2.4T Supply

The supply deluge was quickly reversed with burn mechanism.

Statue fingers. (Couleur/Pixabay)

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Strategy Bears Outperform Bitcoin Bears, Breach Pivotal Bull Market Support

Strategy is the world's largest publicly-listed BTC holder.

Strategy bears penetrate key support.

Markets

CME Announces First XRP and SOL Option Trades

Initial trades were conducted by major market participants, including Wintermute, Galaxy, Cumberland DRW, and SuperState.

CME Group headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Friday Feb. 5, 2021. CME Group Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 10. Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Blast From the Past: Previous U.S. Government Shutdown Aligned With Bitcoin's Bear Market Bottom

Today’s shutdown coincides with record gold prices, and a major leverage flush out.

Assets since the US Government Shutdown (TradingView)

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LuBian Wallet Moves Over $1B in BTC After 3 Years of Inactivity: On-Chain Data

A wallet linked to the hacked LuBian Bitcoin mining pool moved 9,757 BTC, worth $1.1 billion, after three years of inactivity.

FastNews (CoinDesk)

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Bearish BTC Sentiment Persists Despite Powell’s Signal That 'QT' May Be Nearing End

The Fed's quantitative tightening, which began in 2022, has reduced the balance sheet from $9 trillion to $6.6 trillion.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Speaking on Sept. 17, 2025 at FOMC Press Conference

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Coinbase to Increase Investment in One of India’s Largest Crypto Exchanges

The planned deal sets a $2.45 billion post-money valuation and follows CoinDCX’s April 2022 raise of $135 million at a $2.15 billion valuation.

Coinbase logo shown on a laptop screen

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The Crypto Liquidation Crisis Highlighted OTC Desks as Crucial Shock Absorbers, Finery Markets Says

The localized crisis on Binance could have spread had it not been for OTC desks acting as shock absorbers, Finery Markets said.

Computer monitors and a laptop screen show trading charts on a desk overlooking an expanse of water at sunset. (sergeitokmakov/Pixabay)