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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Mercados

Asia’s biggest bitcoin buyer now wants to build the BTC ecosystem

Tokyo-listed Metaplanet is expanding beyond holding BTC into funding, incubating, and granting to companies building bitcoin financial infrastructure.

Aerial view of Tokyo (Jaison Lin/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Tecnología

Bonk.fun hacked: Domain hijacked, crypto drainer planted

The operator, known as Tom, said only users who signed a fake terms-of-service message on the compromised site after the breach were affected.

Hacker sitting in a room

Mercados

Bitcoin drops on Iran war uncertainty, AI tokens jump

BTC traded near $69,500 after failing to hold $71,000 as the Iran war kept markets cautious. AI tokens including ICP, FET outperformed on strong retail demand.

Robots (Unsplash/Sumaid pal Singh Bakshi/Modified by CoinDesk)

Publicidad

Mercados

Next week could spice things up for bitcoin as seven central banks face an inflation test

Seven major central banks, including the Federal Reserve, will issue rate decisions next week just as war-driven oil price spikes raise fresh concerns about global inflation.

Globe (Subhash Nusetti/Unsplash)

Regulación

Senate Democrats push prediction market limits, including banning bets on war, death

One Senate Democrat's bill would write the prohibition into federal law even as the CFTC shifts toward a more permissive stance on event contracts.

(Kevin Schmid/Unsplash)

Mercados

Bitcoin traders bet on a rally above $80,000

Many traders expect bitcoin to recover toward the $80K level between June and September, Derive said.

Stairway to Heaven

Mercados

Ethereum's on fire with record activity, but ether price and blockchain fees lag

Capital outflows, even as activity surges across Ethereum’s ecosystem, highlight the growing disconnect between usage growth and ETH’s market performance, a CryptoQuant report shows.

Ethereum Logo

Publicidad

Mercados

Anthropic is suing the U.S. government for allegedly blacklisting its AI

The maker of Claude filed suit against multiple federal agencies, arguing it was shut out of government procurement without the legal process required to ban a vendor.

Artificial Intelligence (Markus Winkler/Unsplash)