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.

Shaurya Malwa

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Markets

CFTC’s Plans for Crypto Perpetual Trading Puts Focus on Hyperliquid’s HYPE

HYPE is up 15% in the past 24 hours, outperforming majors, as developers said they submitted comments to the derivatives agency on using DeFi principles to create better products.

Plastic trader

Markets

XRP Could Rocket to $8 as Focus Shifts to Crypto Majors After Bitcoin's Record Run: Traders

Traders are rotating into major altcoins like XRP and Solana’s SOL as bitcoin consolidates near its record highs.

Charts signal 2024-like massive BTC bull run ahead. (NASA-Imagery/Pixabay)

Markets

Sui's Biggest Liquidity Provider Hacked for $223M, Causing Sui-Based Tokens to Plummet

Cetus is Sui’s biggest liquidity provider and decentralized exchange.

A hooded figure sits typing on a laptop in a darkened (Pixabay)

Markets

Crypto Trader Opens $1.1B Long Bitcoin Bet on Hyperliquid Using 40X Leverage

The trade marks a new phase of capital migration from centralized finance to DeFi — one where whales, not just retail, are willing to place big bets outside the traditional system.

Dollars. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Pizza Day Is Now a $1.1B Celebration

An order for two pizzas was paid with 10,000 BTC fifteen years ago. Today, that same order is worth over $1.1 billion — just as BTC just hit fresh record highs.

The actual pizzas (Credit: Laszlo Hanyecz)

Markets

Bitcoin Smashes Past $111K, Setting New Record Highs, on Institutional Fervor

Large institutions — not just retail hype — are driving this cycle’s rally, traders say, as bitcoin pushes deeper into price discovery.

Smashed brick (CoinDesk Archives)

Finance

'Hawk Tuah Girl' Hailey Welch Claims SEC, FBI Cleared Her for the HAWK Memecoin Disaster

Haliey Welch says she “didn’t know enough about crypto” — despite previously claiming she’d “learned so much” ahead of her failed token launch.

Haliey Welch issues statement on HAWK memecoin (Hawk Token Page/Overhere)

Tech

Solana Could Soon Witness Its Largest Consensus Change as Developer Proposes 'Alpenglow'

“We believe that the release of Alpenglow will be a turning point for Solana,” developers wrote in a blog Monday.

Solana sign and logo