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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Binance's Crypto Derivatives Platform Sees Record Open Interest of $10B

Binance's crypto derivatives platform sees record open interest as retail participation grows.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao

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Bitcoin Decoupled From Stocks in Q1 as Institutional Demand Strengthened: CoinDesk Research

Bitcoin decoupled from stocks and gold but remains inversely correlated to the U.S. dollar.

Bitcoin's correlation with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index of U.S. stocks has declined to zero.

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Ether Price Jumps to All-Time High Near $2,100

Ether is rallying in the wake of Visa's decision to facilitate crypto-based settlements via the Ethereum blockchain.

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DOGE Jumps After Tesla's Musk Promises 'Literal' Moonshot

Elon Musk's tweets keep sending dogecoin into the stratosphere, now with a market capitalization over $8 billion.

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Filecoin Surges 42%, Replaces Litecoin as 9th Largest Digital Asset

Institutional demand propels filecoin ahead of litecoin.

Filecoin creator Juan Benet

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Options Market Shows Call Bias as Bitcoin Prepares for New Price High

Bitcoin's call options are drawing higher value than puts.

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Bitcoin Has Best Start to Year Since 2013 as Gold Disappoints

Bitcoin outshines gold as inflation expectations rise.

Despite the memories of recent market choppiness, bitcoin in March gained for the sixth straight month.

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'Bull Flag' Call for $70K Bitcoin Draws Skepticism From Rival Analysts

There's a debate raging among bitcoin technical analysts over whether the "bull flag" chart pattern even has a flagpole.

A "bull flag" or wishful thinking? Analysts are raising a yellow flag about the latest call for $70,000 bitcoin.

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Crypto Options Giant Deribit Launches Bitcoin Volatility Index

The exchange is planning to roll out futures tied to the index soon. It's not a "fear gauge" but an "action gauge."

The cryptocurrency options exchange Deribit has a new volatility index.

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CME to Launch Micro Bitcoin Futures in May

CME's micro futures contract will provide institutions and individual traders one more tool to hedge their spot market risks.

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