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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Markets

Bitcoin's price rally has a hidden rhythm. Here are the hours and days driving gains.

Bitcoin’s three-month rally shows a clear internal structure than most traders might expect, with performance clustering around specific trading windows across global sessions.

Days. (Claudio Schwarz/Unsplash)

Policy

North Korea terror victims escalate fight to seize $71 million from Aave hack

In a 30-page response filed Tuesday, attorneys for victims of three North Korea terrorism cases reframed the April 18 Aave hack as fraud rather than theft — a distinction that could give the attackers legal title to the borrowed crypto.

Court room and gavel

Markets

XRP above $1.42 as traders watch 2025 breakout pattern that led to 66% rally

Price compression near $1.42 comes as analysts point to a repeating bull flag structure and thinning liquidity conditions.

(CoinDesk Data)

Markets

Bitcoin tops $81,000 as Strategy mulls selling its BTC to fund dividend obligations

Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor signalling a potential bitcoin sale to cover $1.5 billion in annual dividend obligations sent MSTR down 4% after hours and BTC briefly below $81,000.

Digital representation of a physical bitcoin.

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Markets

K Wave Media scraps massive bitcoin treasury plan to redirect $485 million to AI

The Nasdaq-listed firm raised $500 million to invest in bitcoin. Less than a year later, it is chasing the market's current hot sector of AI.

Digital representation of a physical bitcoin.

Markets

Bitcoin absorbed $200 million profit-taking at $80,000 in a bullish sign for BTC

Net realized profits hit a one-month high of $207.56 million Sunday as bitcoin crossed $80,000 for the first time since January, with the price holding above the breakout level into Tuesday despite the heavy sell-side flow.

Styllized bull (Midjourney/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Standard Chartered expands further into crypto with stake in GSR at $1 billion valuation

SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s venture capital division takes a stake in crypto trading firm GSR at a valuation of more than $1 billion, according to Bloomberg.

The Standard Chartered logo on the outside of an office building (Corporate Locations/Unsplash)

Tech

Toncoin surges 36% as Telegram replaces TON Foundation and slashes fees

The market is repricing TON as a Telegram-led ecosystem again, not just a foundation-run chain with a messaging app narrative attached.

Telegram app

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Markets

Bitcoin used to hate inflation. Now it might be the opposite

Bitcoin is rallying alongside inflation signals, defying the traditional macro playbook.

Business, Finance. (Jakub Żerdzicki/Unsplash)

Tech

Ripple to share North Korean threat intelligence with crypto firms

Ripple said April's $285 million Drift breach revealed a new pattern of long-cycle social engineering replacing traditional smart contract exploits.

Ripple (Shutterstock)