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.

Shaurya Malwa

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Policy

In Search of the Elusive Crypto Voter

Next year will see a presidential election. What's crypto's role?

Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

Meme Coin BONK Spikes 40% on Coinbase Listing

Prices reversed nearly all losses from last week following the announcement. BONK traded at $0.000014 on Thursday morning, with a trading volume of over $235 million.

Coinbase (Alpha Photo/Flickr)

Markets

World’s First Bitcoin Bonds Receive Regulatory Approval in El Salvador

The bonds are expected to launch in Q1 of 2024, several posts amplified on social platform X by President Nayib Bukele suggest.

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. (Government of El Salvador, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Drop Spurs $500M in Liquidations, but BTC Entering 'Never Seen Before' Era

“Due to the rise of Ordinals and Bitcoin L2s, there are reasons to be bullish on the Bitcoin ecosystem. We are entering an era of Bitcoin that we have never seen before,” one market watcher told CoinDesk.

(Getty)

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Finance

Seamless Protocol Issues SEAM, Bags First Base-Blockchain Token Listing on Coinbase

Seamless previously operated the "OG Points" program, allowing thousands of users to earn points in their on-chain wallets.

Screen showing candle plot and technical analysis lines

Finance

El Salvador Could Rake in $1B Bitcoin Investment Per Year With New 'Freedom VISA'

The country's treasury owns just over 2,700 bitcoin (BTC), which has yielded over $3 million in unrealized profit so far.

El Salvador (Esaú González, Unsplash)

Markets

LayerZero Confirms Airdrop Plans, Boosting Some Ecosystem Projects

As of Friday, LayerZero has not outright mentioned how it intends to reward users for using its network.

Airdrop (Viaframe/Getty Images)

Finance

Deloitte Taps Polkadot Ecosystem's Kilt Blockchain for Digital Shipping Logistics

Shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd will be the first to implement Deloitte's KYX – Know Your Client and Know Your Cargo – system.

(Athanasios Papazacharias/Unsplash)

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Markets

Tokens Tied to Dogecoin-Funded DOGE-1 Satellite Jump Ahead of SpaceX Launch

GEC token prices have more than quadrupled in the past week, while XI tokens are up 35% in the same period.

(Dogecoin)

Tech

Future of Solana's Hyped Saga Phone Is 'Under Internal Discussion' as Sales Figures Fail to Wow

Yakovenko emphasizes the importance of reaching a user base of 25-50K to sustain the Solana phone's development in an interview with Laura Shin.

The Saga smartphone. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)