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

The '$300K Bitcoin Lottery' Grows Even Bigger as Traders Chase Upside – Time to Step Back?

The popularity of the June expiry $300K call reflects aggressive speculative positioning by traders anticipating continued upside, Deribit's Lin Chen said.

The $300K BTC lottery swells. (Mattwide/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin Faces Risk of Pullback to $100K as Momentum Indicator Diverges Bearishly: Technical Analysis

Bitcoin could fall out of its bullish channel, possibly testing support at $100,000, though the broader outlook remains positive.

BTC faces pullback risks as momentum wanes. (Up-Free/Pixabay)

Finance

Bitlayer Joins Forces With Antpool, F2Pool, and SpiderPool to Supercharge Bitcoin DeFi

Bitlayer has partnered with major Bitcoin mining pools to promote the adoption of BitVM, a technology enabling Bitcoin-native DeFi.

Bitlayer founders Charlie Hu and Kevin He.

Markets

Monero's Market Cap Flips Litecoin and Toncoin as XMR Enters Top 25 Tokens

Monero's price has more than doubled this year.

Flip (Alicia Quan/Unsplash)

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Bearish Bets on Strategy Look Alluring, Says 10X Research as MSTR Diverges From Bitcoin's Bull Run

Despite bitcoin reaching record highs, MSTR's stock price has stalled, indicating waning investor enthusiasm.

A brown bear sits on the ground (LTapsaH/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin Options Open Interest Hit Record $42.5B on Deribit as Traders Eye Next Bull Target for BTC

Highest OI now sits at the $110K, $120K, and $300K June 27 strikes — showing bullish conviction

Traders looking at a chart. (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Bitcoin's Rally to Record Highs Puts Focus on $115K Where an 'Invisible Hand' May Slow Bull Run

As BTC looks north, an invisible hand may work to slow the ascent above $115K

An invisible hand may provide resistance to BTC. (Christina Langford-Miller/Unsplash)

Markets

XRP-BTC Pair Flashes First Golden Cross, Hinting at Major Bull Run for XRP

The pattern has raised the probability of ratio breaking out of its prolonged sideways trend in a sign of major XRP uptrend.

Nasdaq futures chalks out golden cross. (Flickr)

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These Six Charts Explain Why Bitcoin's Recent Move to Over $100K May Be More Durable Than January's Run

Financial conditions, stablecoin flows and other key metrics point to stronger foundation compared to the December-January twin peaks.

Statue of a bull (ianproc64/Pixabay)