Shaurya Malwa

Shaurya is the Co-Leader of the CoinDesk tokens and data team in Asia with a focus on crypto derivatives, DeFi, market microstructure, and protocol analysis.

Shaurya holds over $1,000 in BTC, ETH, SOL, AVAX, SUSHI, CRV, NEAR, YFI, YFII, SHIB, DOGE, USDT, USDC, BNB, MANA, MLN, LINK, XMR, ALGO, VET, CAKE, AAVE, COMP, ROOK, TRX, SNX, RUNE, FTM, ZIL, KSM, ENJ, CKB, JOE, GHST, PERP, BTRFLY, OHM, BANANA, ROME, BURGER, SPIRIT, and ORCA.

He provides over $1,000 to liquidity pools on Compound, Curve, SushiSwap, PancakeSwap, BurgerSwap, Orca, AnySwap, SpiritSwap, Rook Protocol, Yearn Finance, Synthetix, Harvest, Redacted Cartel, OlympusDAO, Rome, Trader Joe, and SUN.

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Tech

Trump-backed WLFI passes proposal letting $5 million stakers buy 'direct access' to team

The governance vote passed with 99.12% approval from 1,800 voters, with 76% of tokens coming from just 10 wallets.

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Markets

XRP climbs 3% past $1.47 as breakout extends on broad bitcoin-led move

Volume jumped more than 250% during the move, with traders watching whether former resistance now turns into support.

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Markets

Bitcoin briefly tops $74,000 as ether, sol, ada gains as much as 6% in Monday surge

Majors posted broad gains on Monday as oil eased from highs, two tankers sailed through the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since the war began, and Trump said the U.S. was talking to Iran.

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Tech

Visa is ready for AI agents. So is Coinbase. They're building very different internets

The next trillion-dollar payments network won't have a checkout page. No card number, no CVV, no human at the keyboard. Just machines paying machines, thousands of times a second, for fractions of a cent.

Agentic commerce (Xavi Torrent/Getty Images)

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Markets

Bitcoin sold off first when the U.S.-Iran war began. Two weeks later, it's outperforming nearly everything

Each escalation in the Iran conflict has been larger than the last, but each bitcoin drawdown has been getting smaller.

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Markets

Bitcoin holds $71,000 despite Trump warning of strikes on Iran's oil-rich Kharg Island

The largest cryptocurrency is up 4.2% on the week despite Friday's reversal, with attention now turning to the Fed meeting on March 17-18 and whether oil above $100 forces a shift in rate expectations.

Donald Trump (Credit: Library of Congress on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin can survive 72% of the world's submarine cables being cut, but a targeted attack on five hosting providers could cripple it

A Cambridge study spanning 11 years and 68 verified cable failures found that Bitcoin's physical infrastructure is far more resilient than previously understood, with TOR adoption actually strengthening the network.

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Markets

A huge gap between network use and token value is the most important thing happening in XRP right now

Daily payments on XRPL surged to 2.7 million, AMM pools exploded to 27,000, and tokenized asset value jumped 35% in 30 days. XRP is down 26% this year.

XRP symbol on top of dollar bills. (Unsplash/CoinDesk)

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Markets

Vitalik Buterin recounts how shiba inu tokens became a $1 billion AI policy war chest

The Ethereum co-founder said he expected the Future of Life Institute to cash out $10-25 million from his 2021 meme coin donation. It liquidated roughly $500 million and pivoted to political advocacy he worries could lead to "authoritarian" outcomes.

A Shiba inu, the dog breed that inspired both DOGE and SHIB, is getting a ride in cryptocurrency markets. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

BlackRock’s new ether ETF for yield hungry investors debuts with $15 million in trading volume

The new ETHB fund launched with over $100 million in assets and traded more than $15 million on day one, offering investors exposure to ethereum plus staking rewards.

Digitally altered photo of a dollar bill (Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)