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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XRP Prints Lower Highs, Volume Spikes to 169M in Sharp Reversal

Price action accelerated at 14:00 when XRP fell from $3.04 to $2.97 on a 169.41 million volume surge — over 3x its 24-hour average of 52.73 million — establishing $3.04 as interim resistance and validating $2.93 as a local support floor.

(CoinDesk Data)

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XRP Analysis: $3 Becomes Make-or-Break Level for the Ripple Linked Token

Price action remained volatile between $2.83 and $3.11, with short-term upside stalling at resistance levels while volumes surged past 110 million XRP — including a $33 million one-minute transaction that spooked order books.

(CoinDesk Data)

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Retail XRP Holders Will Soon Be Able to Tap DeFi on Flare, No Seed Phrase Needed

XRP holders will soon be able to wrap the token into FXRP via Flare’s FAssets protocol and deploy it across staking and liquidity products.

Flare (Osarugue Igbinoba/Unsplash)


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Litecoin Surges 10% on ETF Hopes and Merchant Activity Amid Quiet Rotation

Speculation over a spot ETF continues to build despite the SEC delaying its decision on Grayscale’s application until October.

LTC/USD chart (TradingView)

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Bitcoin Struggles to Hold $115K; Solana, Dogecoin Show Relative Strength as Risk-Off Sentiment Lingers

A colloquial narrative that “altseason” is imminent has weakened, with traders rotating capital back into majors or moving to the sidelines entirely.

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XRP Breaks $3 With $33M Traded in a Minute. Here's What Analysis Predicts Next

Despite technical resistance at $3.09 and short-term sell signals flashing, machine-learning forecasts continue to target upside toward $3.12 by month-end.

(Coindesk Data)

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Missing Satoshi Nakamoto Statue Is Recovered in Lugano

The layers of disappearing stripes creating the illusion of Satoshi, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, that fade into code when viewed head-on had stood on the site since late 2024.

The statue of Satoshi viewed head-on, showing the parkland behind.

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Tech

Cardano Community Approves $70M Core Dev Budget, Boosting ADA Prospects

Proposed technical implementations are designed to lead to increased developer activity and new use cases for applications on the network, contributing to demand for ADA, the network’s gas token.

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