Shaurya Malwa

Shaurya is a Senior Ecosystems Analyst driving CoinDesk's market-leading coverage on tokens, data and insights, with a deep focus on crypto derivatives, DeFi, market microstructure, and protocol analysis.

Shaurya holds over $1,000 in BTC, ETH, SOL, DOGE, TOSHI, MOG and CAT.

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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Live updates: Bitcoin falls back to $82,000 after inflation rises more than forecast

An historic turnaround lower in interest rates suggests the possibility that the bond bear market may have run its course.

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Tech

Coinbase, which holds 5% of all bitcoin, wants the quantum fix started now

Coinbase says bitcoin should start preparing for quantum computers now, with flexible addresses, a backup quantum-proof key and a separate debate over lost coins.

Coinbase logo shown on a laptop screen.  (Shutterstock)

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Ripple adds Stripe-owned wallets to XRP Ledger as AI payments pass 14 million

The integration will let software pay for online services using XRP and RLUSD, while questions remain about how much real economic activity the transactions represent.

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple Labs (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Solana sets Oct. 21 for Alpenglow upgrade targeting 150-millisecond finality

The switch will replace Solana’s existing validator voting system, remove vote transactions from blocks and could sharply change headline transaction counts even if user activity stays flat.

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Bitcoin climbs toward $84,000 after Fed’s Williams sees no rate hikes in 2027

ZEC led a broad bounce among major tokens, and Korean chipmakers snapped a five-day losing streak ahead of Thursday’s U.S. inflation data.

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Live updates: Bitcoin trading in tight range near $83,000 ahead of key U.S. inflation data

The September CPI report comes out on Wednesday, with economists expecting a sizable increase in the headline number but a softening in the core rate.

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Tokenized SanDisk bets saw more liquidations than XRP as Asia’s chip rout wipes out $800 million

About $800 million in leveraged positions were wiped out over 24 hours, 86% of them bullish. Chip-stock contracts on crypto exchanges took a chunk of the damage.

A chip stock outranked XRP in crypto’s liquidation map. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

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Once-largest Ethereum NFT marketplace Blur is shutting down after volumes collapse 99%

Blur will close its website on Nov. 12 after monthly trading fell from about $1.43 billion at its 2023 peak to under $7 million, ten days after sister project Blast announced its own shutdown.

A snapshot of the Blur website as of Asian morning hours Tuesday. (CoinDesk)

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One year after 10/10 flash crash, bitcoin and ether liquidity have rebuilt, but altcoins still face risks

Bitcoin and ether order books are deeper than before the crash, while altcoin liquidity keeps eroding and spot trading remains well below its October 2025 peak.

Liquidity divergence (CoinDesk data)

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Robinhood Chain slowdown spreads from fees to trading as transactions fall more than 40%

Daily activity has dropped from 10.8 million transactions to 6.2 million since mid-September even as Robinhood keeps paying network fees on customer swaps.

Robinhood app (Getty Images/Cheng Xin)