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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A year after losing $1.46 billion, Bybit says AI helped it save $700 million

The exchange that lost $1.46 billion to North Korean hackers is the first large centralized firm to put numbers on a claim bitcoin developers have been making all month.

Bybit logo on a mobile phone. (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

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Live updates: Bitcoin and gold jump but rejected at key level as Treasury move pushes yields lower

Led by Scott Bessent, the U.S. Treasury announced at least a doubling in the size of its long-dated bond buybacks.

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Maya Protocol exploit drains bitcoin and other assets as pool value drops by $11 million

A chain of six flaws caused the cross-chain trading network to credit a pool with nearly 50 million tokens that were never properly funded, letting an attacker drain real assets.

Hacks and exploit (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

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Robot maker Unitree’s IPO surges 600% , outpacing crypto traders’ premarket bets

A Hyperliquid perp priced Unitree far above its IPO valuation before Shanghai trading began, but the robot maker’s first public trade still opened roughly 75% above crypto traders’ implied price.

Unitree robot at the company's store during its opening at the JD.com Inc. Shuangjing shopping center. (Fred Lee/Getty Images)

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Bitcoin holds $64,000 and solana leads gains amid 7% Korean chip stock slide

Bitcoin held near $64,000 and every major except BNB gained, while Korean semiconductor stocks fell more than 7% and Fed minutes are due at 2 p.m. ET.

Crypto trading charts. (Rafael Minguet Delgado/Pexels)

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Why the Trump-backed crypto venture is distancing itself from Hong Kong AI aggregator WorldClaw

WLFI says the AI platform is independent and uses USD1 as a payment rail, but would not say whether it has equity, financing, revenue-sharing or other economic interests in the company.

Eric Trump sits holding a microphone at a panel discussion. (Keith Tanner/CoinDesk)

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Ethereum’s next upgrade breaks the '21,000 gas' rule wallets rely on

Sending ETH to a brand-new address will cost more than sending to an existing one, and software built around a flat fee will get the sum wrong.

Gas is a unit of accounting for Ethereum transactions. (Unsplash)

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Live updates: Bitcoin tepidly on the rise as stocks slip

The U.S. 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest since 2007 and Brent crude topped $91 as the Iran conflict escalates, pressuring stocks. Bitcoin is holding its range, for now.

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XRP sinks below $1 for first time since 2024 even as Korean bank adopts Ripple Payments

Jeonbuk Bank will use Ripple’s 24/7 cross-border payment service for business remittances, but it is unknown whether the flows will use XRP or Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin.

South Korea's flag (Daniel Bernard/Unsplash)

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Monad, an Ethereum rival, offered early investors up to $60 million to cash out. Almost all said no

The program came three months before investor unlocks begin, with MON trading below its public-sale price and most of the token supply still outside circulation.

offering money dollars (Oleksandrum/Shutterstock)