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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Bitcoin momentum gauge hints at recovery. Experts remain cautious.

Your day-ahead look for June 3, 2026

A swimming shark.

Markets

Bitcoin steadies at $67,000, faces critical juncture after sliding 9.5% in seven days

The recovery does little to mask a 9.5% weekly decline as U.S. stocks hit records highs, AI tokens rally and Coinbase's Ethena deal steals the spotlight.

CoinDesk

Tech

Apparent Zcash outage was a block explorer problem, infrastructure provider says

One expert said the issue was mainly with block explorers tracking the onchain activity.

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Finance

Franklin Templeton says Wall Street fears blockchain because it threatens its profits

Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton's CEO, said blockchain and crypto threaten a huge number of business models that exist today in traditional finance.

Adam Back and Jenny Johnson (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

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Markets

Prediction market traders bet bitcoin's selloff has further to run

Markets now imply a 66% chance bitcoin falls below $55,000 and a coin-flip chance of sub-$50,000 prices before year-end.

A bear cools itself, lying on its back in shallow water. (Unsplash, mana5280)

Markets

Bitcoin's 'fear gauge' surges nearly 20%, its biggest jump since Feb. 5 crash

The jump signals return of fear after two months of calm market sentiment.

Fear. (Jacqueline Gozzard/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin's slide to $66,000 is accelerating a shift into digital dollars

The crypto market is seeing a capital flight into dollar-linked stablecoins even as stocks and the Dollar Index remain calm.

(CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Bitcoin drops toward $69,000 as Saylor sale spooks investors while AI tokens buck the trend

The price of bitcoin fell to its lowest since April 7 as Strategy's sale dented sentiment, while AI tokens H and NEAR surged and DeFi TVL hit a 20-month low.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)

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Markets

Coinbase makes a major play for India’s booming $3 billion crypto market with local currency launch

Coinbase announces INR rails to make the platform fully accessible to Indian retail traders.

John O'Loghlen, Coinbase’s Head of APAC. (Coinbase)

Markets

Diverging trends: Ether slides below $2,000 while futures open interest hits record high of 16 million ETH

Ether drops below $2,000 amid heavy selling pressure, yet futures open interest hits a record high. This divergences suggests aggressive shorting.

Ether's price drops below $2,000. (CoinDesk)

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