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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Markets

Bitcoin, ether whipsaw wipes out $286 million in leveraged bets

Price volatility around the Federal Reserve's rate decision cleared positions for roughly 90,000 traders, with unusually equal losses for bulls and bears.

Bitcoin, ether whipsaw wipes out $280 million even as prices remain flat over 24 hours. (Shutterstock)

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Ether, XRP flat as chip stocks steady on Samsung's 250-fold profit surge

Crypto's majors barely moved as Asia's semiconductor selloff eased. Most are still lower over the week, with HYPE down 8%.

Ether, XRP flat as chip stocks steady on Samsung's 250-fold pr

Tech

Bitcoin's quantum plan assumes some algorithms break. AI just weakened one in 60 hours

The HAWK system isn't deployed anywhere, and Bitcoin doesn't use it. But is sitting in the same quantum race that Bitcoin developers are scrambling to finish.

A screen of computer code. AI systems are increasingly finding flaws and loopholes in human-written code, with quantum attack remaining a big concern among bitcoin and crypto developers. (Chris Ried/Unsplash)

Tech

About $80 million ZEC crosses into Zcash's new Ironwood pool in the first day

Roughly 5% of the funds in the retired Orchard pool have gone through the turnstile. The rest sit in a pool that can no longer take deposits.

Bottom of a swimming pool. (xing419/Pixabay)

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Live updates: Bitcoin edges above $64,000 as Fed holds policy steady

The formerly popular names in AI infrastructure continued their sharp selloff on Wednesday.

U.S. Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Company behind AI trade that caused $60 million crypto liquidations to cover all losses

The mark price fell 19% on a single pre-market trade in Korea. The company says its oracle worked exactly as designed.

Lending money, bills on a person's hands (Christian Dubovan/Unsplash)

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Bitcoin rises toward $64,000 as Korea's record chip crash leaves crypto untouched

SK Hynix fell 17% after profit rose 557% and still missed estimates. Bitcoin is up 1%, and the Fed decides rates today.

South Korea's flag (Daniel Bernard/Unsplash)

Tech

Zcash seals $1.7 billion shielded pool as Ironwood upgrade activates

The upgrade retires Orchard, where a counterfeiting bug sat undetected for four years. Every coin inside now has to leave through a gate that caps withdrawals at verified deposits.

(Abi abdullah miyad/Unsplash)

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Nvidia forms 37-member AI security alliance without OpenAI, Anthropic or Google

The chipmaker and 36 other companies say defenders need AI they can run themselves. Major AI players OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are not among them.

Nvidia forms 37-member AI security alliance without OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.(Nvidia/CoinDesk Archives)

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Bitcoin options traders are dropping their hedges going into the Fed meeting

The put/call ratio has fallen to about 0.52 from 0.76 in late June, and one-week downside protection has collapsed in price. The options market is positioned for a quiet week that contains an FOMC decision.

U.S. Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)