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

Bitcoin holds $68,300 as gold crashes for a ninth day and Asian stocks drop

The Iran conflict's fourth week is breaking the traditional safe-haven playbook, with gold down to $4,360 and equities falling for a third consecutive session.

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XRP falls 3% as breakdown below $1.44 and bitcoin weakness caps recovery

Traders are watching support near $1.40 as repeated failures below $1.60 reinforce broader downtrend.

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Bitcoin miners are losing $19,000 on every BTC produced as difficulty drops 7.8%

The average production cost was sitting at $88,000 per bitcoin in mid-March, according to Checkonchain's difficulty regression model.

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Bitcoin drops below $69,200 as Trump gives 48-hour ultimatum on Iran power plants

BTC fell 2.2% as $299 million in liquidations hit crypto markets, with long positions accounting for 85% of the damage.

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XRP flips BNB as open interest builds back toward pre-crash levels

The token broke through $1.50 resistance on a 125% volume spike, pushing its market cap to $93.4 billion. Binance futures open interest has climbed 59% since October even as the price remains 58% below its high.

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Crypto majors post double-digit weekly gains as bitcoin tests $75,000 ahead of Fed decision

Ether jumped 13%, XRP surged 11%, and solana gained 9.7% over seven days as $767 million in ETF inflows and ceasefire speculation fueled the broadest rally since before the war.

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Tech

Trump-backed WLFI passes proposal letting $5 million stakers buy 'direct access' to team

The governance vote passed with 99.12% approval from 1,800 voters, with 76% of tokens coming from just 10 wallets.

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XRP climbs 3% past $1.47 as breakout extends on broad bitcoin-led move

Volume jumped more than 250% during the move, with traders watching whether former resistance now turns into support.

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Bitcoin briefly tops $74,000 as ether, sol, ada gains as much as 6% in Monday surge

Majors posted broad gains on Monday as oil eased from highs, two tankers sailed through the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since the war began, and Trump said the U.S. was talking to Iran.

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Tech

Visa is ready for AI agents. So is Coinbase. They're building very different internets

The next trillion-dollar payments network won't have a checkout page. No card number, no CVV, no human at the keyboard. Just machines paying machines, thousands of times a second, for fractions of a cent.

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