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.

Shaurya Malwa

Latest from Shaurya Malwa


Markets

XRP holds above $1 after leverage flush as network activity improves

Open interest has collapsed from last year’s highs while active addresses and ETF inflows rise, but XRP still needs to reclaim $1.10 before the chart turns cleaner.

(CoinDesk Data)

Markets

Bitcoin’s quiet $59,000-$60,000 range is starting to look dangerous

The token has traded in a tight band near $59,000 to $60,000 all week. The pattern echoes a calm stretch from 2024, but this one is forming below support in a falling market, and a break could open the way toward $40,000.

pen rests on paper showing sketched graph going lower.

Tech

Live updates: bitcoin closes out weak quarter; Trump reports over $1 billion in crypto proceeds

IBIT alone shed $300 million while smaller funds absorbed some of the outflow. The selloff lands as the same AI trade that crashed Korea a week ago now powers a record quarterly rally there.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaking at Mar-a-Lago.

Markets

XRP holds $1 support as network activity rises and leverage clears out

Active addresses jumped 72% in two weeks while open interest fell to its lowest level since July 2025, giving traders a cleaner setup even as price remains trapped below resistance.

(CoinDesk Data)

Advertisement

Markets

Ether, solana and dogecoin slide as Strategy's bitcoin sales plan pressures market

Bitcoin held below $60,000 as a surging dollar kept crypto pinned. Onchain demand stayed quiet through the week's losses, and Strategy's plan to possibly sell bitcoin added to the caution.

Laptop with markets monitor and charts. (Kanchanara/Unsplash)

Tech

Ripple wants institutions to borrow against tokenized assets on XRPL

A proposed XRPL standard would let institutions borrow against tokenized assets, with the blockchain enforcing loan terms while the underwriting stays with human credit teams. It still needs validator approval to go live.

Ripple reportedly raise $1B fundraise. (Shutterstock)

Markets

Tether's USDT jumps to 8.5% premium in India after crypto payment crackdown

Raids on crypto payment firms in Bengaluru disrupted the pipeline that feeds dollar-pegged USDT to Indian platforms, pushing its local price more than 8.5% above the dollar, roughly double the usual gap.

India's flag (Naveed Ahmed / Unsplash)

Tech

Vitalik Buterin says crypto’s most powerful idea isn't nearly ready for use

The Ethereum co-founder says indistinguishability obfuscation could one day act like a “trustless trusted third party,” but today’s versions remain far too slow for real use.

Vitalik Buterin (CoinDesk Archives)

Advertisement

Markets

South Korea’s $518 billion AI chip push shows crypto is still losing the capital race

Samsung and SK Hynix are pulling a chip-plant buildout forward by a decade to meet AI memory demand. It is the latest and largest sign of the AI capital cycle that has drawn money away from crypto all year.

South Korea (Photo by Daniel Bernard on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Live updates: bitcoin pinned to $60,000 as U.S. stocks surge higher

Stocks are about to close out their best quarter since 2020 as crypto continues to get crushed.

Shutterstock