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 extends slide as spot ETF outflows hit a record while Wall Street rips on AI

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost $2.97 billion across 10 trading days through Friday, the longest outflow streak on record. Oil's bounce on the stalled Iran deal added pressure even as global equities hit new highs on the Nvidia and SoftBank AI trade.

Bull and bear market (Midjourney/modified by CoinDesk)

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Aave overhauls listing standards after $230 million rsETH exploit exposed bridge risks

An official postmortem traced the exploit to a LayerZero bridge verification failure and outlined a sweeping overhaul of Aave's asset-listing standards as DeFi risks shift beyond smart contract bugs.

A computer screen with code. (Pexels/Pixabay)

Tech

XRP Ledger's new proposal blocks the flash loan attacks costing DeFi hundreds of millions

A draft XRPL amendment notes that flash loan attacks are "structurally impossible" on the network because of how its transactions are built, an architectural quirk that has spared the chain from the exploit class that has cost Ethereum DeFi billions.

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XRP ETFs add $35 million as bitcoin and ether funds lost $2 billion in late May

From May 20 to May 29, XRP funds took in $35 million while bitcoin and ether ETFs lost roughly $2 billion combined, with Ripple’s earlier reported XRP treasury plan still awaiting confirmation.

U.S. sport XRP ETFs have recorded only inflows since their launch.

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Bitcoin, ether, XRP, dogecoin lag a nine-week stocks rally as ETF demand cools

The S&P 500 posted its longest weekly winning streak since 2023 and Brent oil stabilized near $92 on US-Iran ceasefire hopes. The biggest cryptocurrencies still drifted lower, with Hyperliquid's HYPE the only major name to rally.

ETFs (Markus Winkler/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Bitcoin’s biggest quantum risk may not be wallet keys. An early investor fears something bigger

Andrew Gault, the venture capitalist who funded the quantum hardware labs now threatening bitcoin, says the industry is looking in the wrong place. Google's own security team moved in the same direction in March.

Bitcoin's quantum plan assumes some algorithms break. AI just weakened one in 60 hours (Chris Ried/Unsplash)

Markets

Hyperliquid bigger than NASDAQ, says ICE CEO Jeffrey Sprecher

Sprecher saluted Hyperliquid's team, signaling deeper engagement between Wall Street incumbents and crypto-native rails.

Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan

Tech

Solana, Sui and Aptos wallet data targeted in TrapDoor package attack

The campaign targets crypto, DeFi, AI and security developers with fake tooling packages to steal wallets, SSH keys, GitHub tokens, cloud credentials and browser data.

Hacker facing screens with lines of code (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

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XRP rebounds above $1.30 after volume surge, but bears still control the bigger picture

XRP snapped a streak of lower lows on heavy buying, though the token remains stuck below major resistance levels that have capped every rally this year.

(CoinDesk Data)

Markets

Bitcoin, ether little-changed despite record stocks, falling oil and easing war fears

Global stocks hit records and oil cracked on a tentative US-Iran ceasefire extension. Crypto stayed on the sidelines, with some analysts saying the next catalyst is regulatory, not geopolitical.

pen rests on paper showing sketched graph going lower.