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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Finance

Live updates: Bitcoin slumps as oil and bond yields surge to new highs

The ECB hiked rates earlier Thursday, and U.S. core PPI was softer than expected, but still running hot.

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Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP blames bots after 98% crash as traders rack up six-figure losses

The team said thin liquidity and automated traders distorted the launch, while Nansen data showed some early buyers sitting on six-figure losses after the memecoin’s debut.

A screenshot from the blog site of Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token. (LAPTOP)

Markets

Dogecoin sinks 5% to lead majors' losses, with bitcoin holding $78,000 level

Dogecoin led the losses, BNB fell about 4% and XRP 3%, with oil pushing Treasury yields to their highest since late 2023.

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Markets

Crypto wins regardless of Clarity Act vote, Coinbase's Armstrong says

Coinbase CEO tells CNBC the crypto industry gets regulatory clarity whether or not the Senate passes the bill on Sept. 15.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on July 18, 2025. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Tech

Bitcoin and Ethereum race quantum clock as U.S. backs $300 million hardware push

The threat is not here yet, but fault-tolerant machines and crypto’s migration plans are starting to converge on the same 2029 window.

A physical representation of Bitcoin placed on a clock. (Shutterstock)

Tech

OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents solved a $1 million math problem. Now mathematicians are fighting

An internal model more powerful than GPT-6 Astra produced a proposed solution to one of mathematics’ seven Millennium Prize Problems, though questions are emerging over how independently it got there.

OpenAI's Sam Altman, who has proposed Universal Basic Compute as a fix for automation-driven global equality. (Village Global/Flickr)

Finance

Live updates: Bitcoin slips as yields head higher following Treasury buyback announcement

The Japanese yen extended its rally against the greenback, briefly strengthening past 153 per dollar.

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Markets

AI could kill us, Anthropic researcher says after resigning

The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade, Coxon said on X, explaining his resignation.

Anthropic researcher warns of AI dominance by the end of the decade. (Tara Winstead /Pexels)

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Markets

Hunter Biden defends LAPTOP ahead of Wednesday launch, calls TRUMP a ‘grift’

Biden says the token is about “resilience, redemption and recovery” and will give coins to nearly one million wallets that lost money on TRUMP.

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Tech

Moonshot’s Kimi rattled markets. U.S. agencies now say it was trained on American models

Moonshot, whose Kimi model rattled markets earlier this year, is among six Chinese AI firms accused of systematically extracting capabilities from U.S. models.

Moonshot AI on a phone screen. (Shutterstock)