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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Ravencoin, a blockchain built from Bitcoin’s code, could roll back four days of transactions

Two mining pools controlling most of Ravencoin’s hashpower are building a replacement chain from before Friday’s first invalid block, putting deposits, withdrawals and payments made since then at risk of reversal.

A raven on a ledge. (Anastasiya Dalenka/Unsplash)

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Live updates: Bitcoin falls to $63,500; Anthropic to watermark Claude's AI content after EU regulations

FxPro’s Alex Kuptsikevich said companies that helped give bitcoin institutional cover are now chasing AI data centers, putting BTC’s flat 50-day moving average in focus.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on Tuesday, Aug. 11 (CoinDesk)

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Nvidia’s $500 billion AI infrastructure push leaves crypto compute further behind

Nvidia has signed memorandums of understanding with six major Wall Street firms to establish "AI compute" as a bankable infrastructure asset.

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BTCPay offers $190,000 bounty after bitcoin payment servers drained in exploit

The project said it will pay 10% of recovered funds, up to 3 BTC, after attackers stole LND credentials and drained merchant Lightning wallets last week.

Close up of hands typing on a keyboard in a darkened room. (Unsplash)

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Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fork is 300 blocks behind BTC and six years from fixing itself

The breakaway chain has produced two blocks since splitting off on Saturday. Bitcoin has produced more than 300 in the same stretch.

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XRP, ether lead crypto losses as traders eye $70,000 bitcoin next

Bitcoin failed to hold $65,000 for a fourth day as an oil rally revived inflation worries before Wednesday's U.S. price data.

XRP price today. (CoinDesk Data)

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Solana lending giant Jupiter now lets the same dollar earn twice

The new Lend v2 product turns deposits and borrowed assets into trading liquidity, tying higher returns to whether Jupiter’s router can send enough swap flow to the new vaults.

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Strategy sells 1,690 bitcoin, raises $653 million from MSTR shares

The company increased its USD reserve to $4.65 billion while reducing its bitcoin holdings to 840,447 BTC

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk Television)

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Live updates: WTI crude oil up 5% and back to $80, as bitcoin drops below $64,000

The market rose even as the Senate left the crypto bill unpassed before its recess, with steady ETF inflows and a softer dollar doing more for prices than Washington.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on Aug. 10. (CoinDesk)

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This bitcoin miner rejected BIP-110 despite mining through a pool that supported it

Ocean, a bitcoin mining pool, had been backing BIP-110 by default. Simple Mining, a company that runs mining machines through Ocean, used software from the pool that lets individual miners choose for themselves and went the other way.

ASIC bitcoin miners (Winston Chen/Unsplash)