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.

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Markets

XRP, DOGE surge 5%, bitcoin above $81,000 as Clarity Act clears Senate banking panel

Crypto majors bid higher Friday after the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee in a 15-9 bipartisan vote, with XRP and dogecoin leading the cohort even as broader risk assets sold off on Trump's comments that the US does not need to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Charts indicating a price surge. (Unsplash)

Markets

XRP edges higher while bitcoin, ether and dogecoin slip, keeping focus on $1.49 breakout zone

XRP outperformed major tokens during a volatile session, with a late volume burst pushing price back toward resistance that has capped rallies for weeks.

(CoinDesk Data)

Markets

Bitcoin’s recent $80,000 breakout was led by something other than U.S. spot buyers, data show

The rally was led by leveraged traders and not U.S.-based spot buyers. Hence, its. sustainability is being questioned.

USA

Tech

Claude helps recover $395,000 in bitcoin trapped on a computer for years

The owner had been trying for eight weeks to brute-force the password on their current Blockchain.com wallet, testing roughly 3.5 trillion combinations using the btcrecover service on a rented computing chip.

cracked, bank, glass

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Markets

TRUMP token down 5% as namesake handset begins shipping next week

Trump Mobile's T1 handset appears to be a re-skinned HTC U24 with assembly done in the U.S.

Donald Trump points at the audience during a press conference at the White House.

Markets

Solana drops 5%, bitcoin below $80,000 as Xi warns Trump on Taiwan conflict

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Donald Trump of potential conflict over Taiwan during the first U.S. presidential visit to China in nearly a decade.

U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping (Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images)

Markets

Anthropic, OpenAI tokens plunge as AI firms say pre-IPO share transfers are invalid

Tokens on Solana that claim to track the private-market valuations of Anthropic and OpenAI dropped sharply this week after both AI companies warned that the structures used to back the tokens may be invalid.

Screen chart showing a descending line

Markets

XRP tops bitcoin, ether volumes on major South Korean exchanges

XRP/KRW was the most traded pair on Upbit and second on Bithumb, a familiar Korean market signal that has often preceded sharper moves in the token.

South Korean flag. (CoinDesk Archives)

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Markets

Bitcoin back above $81,000 after hot CPI print, BNB, DOGE lead majors gains

Bitcoin rolled back to $81,200 after dipping to $79,800 on Tuesday's hotter-than-expected U.S. inflation reading, while BNB zoomed 2.5% over 24 hours and dogecoin added 1.3% as crypto funds saw their strongest weekly inflows in months.

bull, bear facing off

Policy

Nevada regulators push back after prediction market conference blames them for move

Spokesperson for regulator denies that it put pressure on ARIA Resort & Casino for hosting Predict 2026

(Grant Cai/Unsplash)