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's bull score index just left bear territory. There's a warning attached.

The index has returned to neutral territory, a rare milestone that has historically marked market turning points, but not always correctly.

Stylized bull-bear faceoff

Tech

Cardano builder seeks smaller funding slice of $46.8 million for scaling and Bitcoin DeFi

The engineering organization behind Cardano submitted nine proposals totaling $46.8 million for the 2026 voting cycle, down from $97.5 million last year.

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Markets

Bitcoin loses grip near $80,000 as ETH, SOL, DOGE fade on profit-taking

Bitcoin traded at $77,794 on Thursday morning, up 0.4% over 24 hours but well off the $79,388 high hit Wednesday evening, with ether, XRP and Solana all closing red.

Profit, Risk and Loss. (Gino Crescoli/Pixabay)

Crypto Daybook Americas

The signal bitcoin momentum traders have been waiting for is here

What you need to know for April 22, 2026

A traffic light on green. (Alexas_Fotos/Pixabay)

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Markets

Bitcoin tests $78,000 resistance as short-squeeze risks mount, altcoins rally

BTC hovers at key $78,000 level with $180 million liquidations at stake, while altcoins and memecoins surge as risk-on sentiment returns.

BTC/USD (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

A $575 bet on a Shiba-themed token became $1.17 million in 5 days

An anonymous wallet bought 2.79 billion ASTEROID tokens for $575 on April 17 and exited Tuesday for 503 ETH, worth $1.17 million, in one of the year's cleanest memecoin trades.

asteroid

Markets

Another DeFi protocol loses millions in hack days after KelpDAO breach

Volo Protocol lost about $3.5 million from three vaults holding WBTC, XAUm, and USDC.

Liquid network faces security exploit. (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin's 'Coinbase premium' just posted its longest bullish streak since October's record high of $126,000

Bitcoin's Coinbase premium has been positive for 14 straight days, the longest bullish streak since BTC hit its all time high of $126,000 in October.

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

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Markets

Chinese crypto mogul Li Lin’s private trading arm is set to move into a Hong Kong-listed wealth firm

The transfer effectively moves part of Li’s private trading operation into a public company where he is the largest shareholder.

China flag (Unsplash)

Crypto Daybook Americas

Bitcoin trades above a make-or-break level ahead of Warsh hearing

What you need to know for April 21, 2026

Federal Reserve Building in Washington D.C.

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