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 ETF holders and treasury firms stack protection against price crash below $60,000, Deribit says

Market participants with long-term vision are buying downside protection.

AI trading screens. (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

Markets

Analysis: Block’s retreat to 2019 scale could be a hint of deeper shifts in payments economics

While Jack Dorsey cites AI-enabled productivity gains as the reason for Block's cuts, the deeper shift is in payments plumbing: stablecoin settlement threatens to compress the fee stack that fintech acquirers have relied on for years.

Block CEO Jack Dorsey (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Bitcoin's bounce fails to convince options traders

Your day-ahead look for Feb. 26, 2026

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Markets

Bitcoin stalls below $70,000 while DOT, UNI lead altcoin surge

BTC traded within a well-defined range as polkadot and uniswap rallied, cosmos slid.

Amber traffic light (Jametlene Reskp/Unsplash)

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Here is why the wild accusations of Jane Street rigging bitcoin price may not be true

Jane Street is a major authorized participant in spot bitcoin ETFs. That's not a conspiracy. But the mechanics of what APs actually do at market open explain more than most people realize.

Bitcoin Logo (CoinDesk)

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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)