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.

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Markets

Hyperliquid’s tokenized futures hit $1.2B as traders bet on oil, stocks

Trading has been driven largely by tokenized futures on equities and commodities such as oil, gold and silver.

Hands rest on the keyboard of a laptop showing trading graphs, data. (Kanchanara / Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)

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Ether treasury firm Bitmine moves $19.5 million in ETH to Coinbase Prime

The largest public ether holder sent two transfers totaling $19.5 million to Coinbase Prime hot wallets on Tuesday, though the moves don't necessarily signal selling.

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Sharplink Gaming holds 868,000 ether as price drop drove $734 million loss in 2025

The Nasdaq-listed company raised $3.2 billion in 2025 to buy ether, doubled its ETH per share, but watched unrealized losses eat through the income statement as the token fell 45% from its peak.

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Pudgy Penguins launches its 'Club Penguin' moment, and the game doesn't feel like crypto at all

Pudgy World went live with 12 towns, plot-based quests, and mini-games in what the team calls "one of the most technically advanced browser-based games ever created." The PENGU token jumped 9% on the news.

Image of several Pudgy Penguin NFTs (Pudgy Penguins)

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Bhutan sells $42.5 million of bitcoin in 2026 as national stack drops 58% from peak

The Himalayan kingdom moved another 175 BTC on Monday, continuing a drawdown that has taken its holdings from a peak of roughly 13,000 BTC to under 5,400 in just over a year.

Buddha point, Thimphu, Bhutan (Passang Tobgay/Unsplash)

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Ether, solana, XRP jump higher as Trump signals Iran war nearing end

Major altcoins bounced alongside risk assets on Tuesday after the president said U.S. military objectives were "pretty well complete."

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Oil pulls back from 25% spike as G7 discusses emergency reserve release

Crude oil futures on Hyperliquid dropped from $114 to $102 after reports that G7 finance ministers would discuss a joint release of strategic oil reserves to cool the price surge driven by the Iran conflict.

Shipping vessel at sea (Getty Images/Unsplash+/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin could face deeper downside as odds of U.S. market meltdown rise to 35%

Veteran strategist Ed Yardeni raised his probability of a stock market crash this year as oil tops $100, the dollar posts its best week in a year, and the Iran conflict expands to Saudi Arabia.

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Oil shorts on Hyperliquid get wiped out as crude surges 30% on Iran escalation

Tokenized crude oil futures saw their largest liquidation event on crypto venues as the conflict expanded to Saudi Arabia and Gulf oil production collapsed.

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Tokenized assets exceed $25 billion after nearly quadrupling in a year

Treasurys, private credit, and commodities are driving growth, but most tokenized assets remain isolated from DeFi markets.

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