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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Uniswap’s UNI jumps 15% as governance vote to expand fee switch gains momentum

A governance proposal would activate protocol fees across eight additional chains and automate fee collection on all v3 pools, potentially adding an estimated $27 Million in annualized revenue.

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Solo bitcoin miner turns $75 of rented hashrate into a $200,000 block reward

The miner rented 1 petahash per second through on-demand cloud mining and got lucky on block 938,092, one of 21 solo-mined blocks in the past year.

Bitcoin mining machines (Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)

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Crypto rebounds from oversold levels, altcoin season indicator revisits January high

Bitcoin rose as much as 3.7% overnight before paring gains, while altcoins outperformed and the altcoin season indicator hit its highest level since January.

Hands rest on the keyboard of a laptop showing trading graphs, data. (Kanchanara / Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)

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Strategy becomes most heavily shorted U.S. stock – but don't assume pure bearishness

Short interest in MSTR equals 14% of market cap, yet much of the positioning may reflect basis trades rather than outright bets on a continued decline.

Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy (MSTR)

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Leading stablecoin Tether shrinks again as market cap looks set for second straight monthly drop

Growth of tether and other top stablecoins has stalled, posing risk to the broader crypto market.

Hands on a laptop keyboard with a screen showing charts and prices. (Unsplash, Kanchanara)

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Crypto firm with U.S. bank charter holds bitcoin holder Strategy's preferred stock

Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered U.S. crypto bank, has added perpetual preferred stock in bitcoin treasury firm Strategy to its balance sheet.

Nathan McCauley, co-founder and CEO of Anchorage Digital at Consensus 2025.

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Bitcoin bounces above $65,000 as dollar weakens and bullish hopes build

A broad uptick across tokens arrived alongside a softer greenback and a rally in Asian equities, though analysts remain split on whether the Feb. 5 lows will hold.

Price bounce (Getty Images)

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Crypto markets bleed as bitcoin hovers above liquidation zone

Bitcoin dropped to $63,000 as the dollar climbed and equities weakened. A break below $60,000 risks further liquidations and a slide toward $52,500.

A man runs past a wall-painted exit pictogram toward a door.

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