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

Bitcoin whales build long positions as funding stays deeply negative

Long bias from the largest perpetual traders on Hyperliquid has built steadily through February, March and April, with the position now leaning aggressively long as bitcoin tags $80,000 and US-Iran talks resume.

Whale diving (foco44/Pixabay)

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Litecoin hit by denial-of-service attack, rewrites 13 blocks to reverse effect

Litecoin's foundation called the weekend exploit a zero-day. The litecoin-project GitHub repository shows the consensus vulnerability was privately patched between March 19 and 26, more than four weeks before the attack.

Physical representation of Litecoin tokens.

Tech

Clock is ticking for bitcoin to prevent quantum threat as it could drain 6.9 million BTC including Satoshi’s

Can a network without formal governance coordinate the biggest cryptographic migration in its history?

A detail of the Satoshi Nakamoto statue in Budapest, Hungary. (Janos Kummer/Getty Images)

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Ripple-linked XRP stalls near $1.44 as 'triangle squeeze' nears breakout

Price holds in tight range after high-volume move, with compression signaling a decisive move as institutional demand quietly builds.

(CoinDesk Data)

Tech

Researcher wins 1 bitcoin bounty for 'largest quantum attack' on underlying tech

Independent researcher Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on publicly accessible quantum hardware, 512 times larger than the previous public demonstration in September 2025.

Hacker sitting in a room (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

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SpaceX's $75 billion IPO could drain the liquidity that's helping lift bitcoin and crypto

SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are set to raise more than $240 billion combined from June through year-end, a capital pull larger than every venture-backed US IPO since 2000 combined, and crypto sits in the same liquidity pool.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Markets

Bitcoin-holder Metaplanet raises $50 million to buy more BTC

Metaplanet has issued 8 billion yen, or about $50 million, in zero-interest bonds to fund additional bitcoin purchases.

Japan flag in front of a building (Roméo A./Unsplash)

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Bitcoin ETFs just pulled in $2 billion in 8 days while short-term holders quietly started selling

Spot bitcoin ETFs logged their first 8-day inflow streak since October, but on-chain profit-taking is already running at 3x the rate that has marked every local top this year.

ETFs (Markus Winkler/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Ripple-linked XRP slips amid bitcoin profit-taking, ETF delay

Token falls 2.5% after rejection near $1.44 as leveraged ETF launch pushback adds to mixed sentiment.

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