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.

Shaurya Malwa

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Finance

Kraken to buy stablecoin payments firm Reap in $600 million deal: Bloomberg

Kraken owner Payward will acquire Hong Kong-based Reap Technologies as the crypto exchange expands its stablecoin and payments infrastructure business in Asia.

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi. (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin treasury firms outline $3 trillion opportunity in BTC-backed digital credit at Consensus

Bitcoin-backed “digital credit” is scaling fast, with executives pointing to a $3 trillion long-term opportunity.

Consensus Miama 2026 Panelists. (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin lenders say institutions want crypto credit to look more like TradFi

At Consensus 2026 in Miami, executives from Two Prime, Ledn and Lygos Finance said institutional borrowers increasingly prioritize custody, transparency and standardized lending structures over complex DeFi products after the crypto credit collapses of 2022.

Alexander Blume, founder and CEO of Two Prime, speaks at Consensus 2026 in Miami (CoinDesk)

Markets

Trump family-linked American Bitcoin posts $82 million loss as crypto drop bites

The Trump family-linked miner cut its cost per bitcoin to roughly $36,200 from $46,900 in Q4 2025, putting it among the lowest-cost public mining operations at a moment when most of its peers are toning down business.

bitcoin mining usb

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Markets

Ripple, JPMorgan settle first cross-border tokenized Treasury redemption on XRP Ledger

The pilot, run with Ondo Finance and Mastercard, processed the redemption of Ondo's OUSG tokenized Treasury fund in under five seconds.

100 dollar bill on table (Live Richer/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Dogecoin slides 4%, bitcoin rally pauses as Iran ceasefire optimism lifts equities

Crypto majors took a breather Thursday after a strong run, with bitcoin holding around $81,000 and ether slipping below $2,330 as global equities pushed to fresh records on hopes of a US-Iran deal.

pen rests on paper showing sketched graph going lower.

Tech

Anthropic signs Elon Musk's SpaceX for Colossus 1 compute ahead of June IPO

The Claude maker said Wednesday it would use all the compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, the latest partnership stitched onto its AI infrastructure buildout.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Markets

Memecoin trades carry rare 'seven-leg' parlay odds, BONK's Nom says at Consensus

The BONK core contributor argued memecoins skipping ETF and public-company rails end up rinsing retail.

Nom BONK. (CoinDesk)

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Tech

Colombia wants to mine bitcoin with surplus renewable energy

President Gustavo Petro said Colombia's Caribbean coast could host bitcoin mining facilities powered by surplus renewable energy, following a path similar to Paraguay.

ASIC miner (Credit: Shutterstock)

Markets

Zcash bets turn into second-largest liquidations behind bitcoin as ZEC rockets 30%

The privacy coin extended its multi-month rally on Tuesday with $46.7 million in shorts liquidated, after Multicoin Capital disclosed a significant ZEC position.

A padlock secures a gate hasp. (Shutterstock)