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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Markets

Treasury’s bond buyback plan fights the market and heightens the danger, billionaire Druckenmiller says

The billionaire investor argues the intervention removes a vital check on government borrowing and fiscal accountability while markets remain the better judge of prices.

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Tech

Monad proposes wallet upgrade that could survive lost keys and quantum attacks

The Ethereum-compatible blockchain wants users to be able to replace the keys controlling an account without changing its address, opening the door to passkeys, recovery tools and post-quantum security.

A screen of computer code. AI systems are increasingly finding flaws and loopholes in human-written code, with quantum attack remaining a big concern among bitcoin and crypto developers. (Chris Ried/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto rally spills into dog and cat memecoins as smaller tokens double in a week

Robinhood Chain-based Cash Cat jumped more than 50% in a day, while several smaller animal-themed tokens have gained between 50% and 130% over the past week.

The smallest memecoins ran hardest last week. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin tops $80,000, solana jumps 8% but rally now runs into overbought warning

BTC is up more than 25% on the week after Treasury’s bond-buyback expansion sparked a rally, while Solana led majors Tuesday as validators vote on proposals to slow new SOL creation and raise daily burns.

(CoinDesk Data)

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Tech

New Solana vote could ramp daily SOL burns to $800,000 and slow new token creation

Two of the three proposals would reduce SOL supply growth by speeding up Solana’s inflation decline and raising daily fee burns from about 650 SOL to as much as 9,000 SOL.

A Solana Hacker House in Miami. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Live updates: Bitcoin retreats after nearing $80,000, with analysts eyeing breather after big run

With bond yields still near multi-year highs, focus turns to Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's upcoming Jackson Hole address.

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Markets

Ethereum lending app Term Finance loses $8.5 million after attacker buys voting power

The exploit shows how lightly held voting tokens can become a means of attack when control of a protocol is cheaper than the assets it governs.

Critics say Russia's blockchain voting system is a black box.

Markets

Ray Dalio says investors should own ‘a bit of Bitcoin’ as U.S. debt risks rise

The Bridgewater founder says recent Treasury-market stress fits his long-running debt-crisis framework, though he still prefers gold as the bigger hedge.

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio (David Paul Morris/Getty Images)

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Markets

Crypto holds big weekly rally as Warsh’s Jackson Hole debut comes into focus

Bitcoin holds above $77,000 after a 21% week, with XRP up 46% over the same stretch. Asian stocks fell as Samsung and Alibaba slid.

Crypto holds big weekly rally as Warsh’s Jackson Hole debut comes into focus. (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

Zcash jumps 48% to over $800 as Grayscale spot ETF push adds to ‘next bitcoin’ buzz

ZEC traded above its January 2018 peak as futures volume hit billions of dollars and a Grayscale filing showed fresh progress toward converting its Zcash Trust into a spot ETF.

Zcash price this week. (CoinDesk Data)