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

'Bitcoin transactions can be monitored’: Ray Dalio explains why central banks won’t touch BTC

Ray Dalio joins the privacy debate, saying Bitcoin’s full transparency makes it less likely to be adopted by central banks.

Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater. (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Bitcoin’s floor looks firmer at $80,000, but traders still don’t trust the breakout

BTC has recovered from Friday’s jobs-driven dip, but Enflux says overhead resistance remains intact while Glassnode’s market structure data suggests traders are buying the rally while still positioning for downside.

Bitcoin hero image

Crypto Daybook Americas

Bitcoin funds capture $700 million as institutions place their bets

Your day-ahead look for May 11, 2026

Some coins piled on top of a $100 note.

Markets

Trump fans put millions of dollars into a gold phone and a memecoin. Neither has gone well

Nearly 600,000 deposits worth $60 million have been collected for a gold T1 phone that has not been delivered to a single confirmed buyer, with terms quietly rewritten in April to remove delivery guarantees.

Donald Trump

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Markets

Bitcoin whipsaws on CME open as Iran tensions pressure crypto markets

BTC briefly topped $82,400 before slipping below $81,000 as traders repositioned around CME futures open and geopolitical risks rattled markets.

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Markets

Bitcoin, Nasdaq investors are celebrating, while U.S. consumers turn gloomy

Bitcoin and Nasdaq have rallied sharply, but U.S. consumer sentiment has fallen to historic lows, highlighting a widening Wall Street–Main Street divide.

Chart shows diverging trends in asset prices and U.S. consumer sentiment (TradingView)

Markets

A bitcoin whale that went silent in 2013 moves $40 million in BTC

A long-dormant whale woke up Sunday, moving millions worth of bitcoin on-chain.

Whales. (makabera/Pixabay)

Markets

CME is set to let traders bet on bitcoin volatility, not just price

CME Group plans to launch bitcoin volatility futures on June 1 pending regulatory approval bringing a easy way to bet on the degree of price swings.

CME Group Headquarters (CoinDesk Archives)

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Finance

Coinbase blames AWS for hours-long crypto trading outage

Coinbase says the outage has been fully resolved but that it will investigate the incident fully.

The "eggs now out of budget" Coinbase ad censured by the Advertising Standards Authority. (Sheldon Reback/CoinDesk)

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