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

Ether's bitcoin-beating Q3 rally came with a catch. Liquidity thinned.

Ether beat bitcoin in the third quarter, but its market liquidity got thinner, according to Coingecko.

Liquidation (Claudia Wollesen/Pixabay)

Crypto Daybook Americas

Cboe wants to turn VIX into a never-ending trade

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 2, 2026

Wall Street street signs (Chenyu Guan/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto traders are in risk-on mode as bitcoin dominance nears return to 60%

Bitcoin dominance is closing in on 60% while USDT's has slipped to 6.3%, pointing to a market growing more comfortable with risk.

CD20, Oct. 2 (CoinDesk)


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Bitcoin kicks off new quarter in the old $82,000-$85,000 price range

Prices briefly topped $85,000 on Wednesday after weaker-than-expected U.S. inflation cooled bets on Fed rate hikes, But bulls couldn’t hold the move and spot ETFs didn’t help.

Bitcoin, Oct. 1 (CoinDesk)

Crypto Daybook Americas

A stronger dollar is a weaker threat to bitcoin than traders think

Your day-ahead look for Sept. 30, 2026

Bitcoin's correlation with the Dollar Index. (CoinDesk, TradingView)

Markets

Live updates: Bitcoin closing out best quarter since 2024, ether its best since 2021

Crypto prices rose early Wednesday after better-than-forecast inflation data, but gave up those gains as interest rates continued to surge.

BTC and ETH Q3

Markets

Bitcoin stalls near $83,000 while lighter drops 17% on Robinhood perps plan

Bitcoin held near $83,000 as the 30-year Treasury yield topped 5.6%, while DeFi tokens reversed and lighter fell after Robinhood unveiled U.S. perps.

Lighter sinks 17% as bitcoin trades at $83,000 (CoinDesk data)

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Finance

How European investors can now buy bitcoin without taking on U.S. dollar risk

Asset management platform HANetf has listed ETCs in London, Frankfurt and Paris providing pound sterling and euro-hedged exposure to bitcoin.

Dollar, pound sterling, euro notes (Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin bulls have one price level to defend

Here's the level analysts are watching and what a break below it could mean for the bulls.

pen rests on paper showing sketched graph going lower.

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