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

This bitcoin miner rejected BIP-110 despite mining through a pool that supported it

Ocean, a bitcoin mining pool, had been backing BIP-110 by default. Simple Mining, a company that runs mining machines through Ocean, used software from the pool that lets individual miners choose for themselves and went the other way.

ASIC bitcoin miners (Winston Chen/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin tops $65,000 with U.S. inflation data due this week

Every major except XRP is green on the week, with BTC, ether and BNB each up nearly 3% as global stocks trade near a record.

A supermarket receipt sits on top of assorted packaged groceries. (stevepb/Unsplash)

Finance

Hyperliquid’s RWA perps boom is eating into the revenue that backs HYPE

Revenue has fallen four quarters running while open interest hit a record high. The gap is a fee-sharing program that hands half the platform's volume to outside builders.

(Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

Tech

Controversial Bitcoin fork BIP-110 mines two blocks, then stops

The breakaway chain inherited bitcoin’s mining difficulty with only a tiny share of hashpower, leaving blocks hours apart while both chains still accept the same transactions.

Fork (Sunbeam Photography/Unsplash)

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Tech

Another Bitcoin infrastructure exploit hits, this time draining Lightning payment servers

BTCPay told users running LND to update immediately or take servers offline after attackers stole credentials that can control Lightning wallets and move funds.

Lightning, represented by a bolt, is a network that runs atop Bitcoin. (Max Bender/Unsplash)

Tech

New XRP Ledger amendments target $530 million in tokenized Wall Street assets

A new XRPL amendment proposal would let institutions encrypt token balances and transfer amounts while still giving issuers, auditors and regulators selective access.

A man seated on a sofa works on a laptop under a Ripple Labs sign. (Ripple Labs)

Tech

Bitcoin holders risk losing real BTC if they sell coins from BIP-110 fork, says developer

If a minority chain appears this weekend, buyers could replay signed fork-coin sales on bitcoin itself, making doing nothing the safest move until the chains can be separated.

A fork over a tokenized representation of bitcoin. (Shutterstock)

Tech

Why Bitcoin's BIP-110 refuses to die despite near-zero miner support

BIP-110 has attracted only a sliver of miner support, yet its user-activated design means the proposal continues toward its activation date and (most likely) beyond.

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Markets

Bitcoin hovers below $65,000 as Middle East tensions escalate further

Brent crude has meanwhile moved to over $83 a barrel after Yemen’s Iran-linked Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia, further escalating tensions in the Middle East.

Bitcoin price, Aug. 7 2026 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Coldcard fallout shows up onchain as 210,000 bitcoin leaves old wallets

Roughly 200,000 bitcoin have moved from long-term holder wallets in the past week, suggesting a possible shift in custody rather than conventional selling

LTH Supply (Glassnode)