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

XRP edges higher to $1.35 on breakout, but bullish momentum still lacks

Strong volume pushed price above $1.34, though weak fundamentals and overhead resistance continue to cap follow-through.

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Markets

ETH, SOL, DOGE slide as Bitcoin fails to break $73,000 for the third time since the ceasefire

The level that has capped every rally during the six-week war remains intact, with analysts saying $75,000 needs to break before the market enters a genuine bullish phase.

pen rests on paper showing sketched graph going lower.

Markets

Trump's World Liberty Financial uses 5 billion WLFI to borrow $75 million from a platform its adviser co-founded

Onchain data shows WLFI deposited 5 billion of its own tokens as collateral to borrow stablecoins it then sent to Coinbase Prime, pushing a lending pool to 100% utilization and leaving depositors unable to withdraw.

World Liberty Financial leadership team. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Fartcoin's price crashed 50% after $145 million manipulation bet went wrong

The liquidation was so large relative to the order book that Hyperliquid's auto-deleveraging mechanism activated, forcibly closing profitable short positions on the other side of the trade to prevent the system from accumulating bad debt.

Ether crashed 35% in May (keithsutherland/Getty images+/Unsplash)

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The ‘bottom is in’: Why Tom Lee says the Iran ceasefire is the starting gun for a massive bitcoin rally

The Fundstrat co-founder and largest corporate ether buyer on earth said the ceasefire means the worst is over. His company bought 71,252 ETH last week.

Bitmine chairman Tom Lee

Policy

CFTC presses case that sports betting is finance, seeks to block Arizona enforcement

Federal lawsuit argues event contracts are swaps under U.S. law, not state-level gaming law, deepening a split with states that view the products as illegal gambling

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Markets

XRP slips 4% as selling pressure builds despite ETF inflows

Elevated volume and modest institutional buying fail to support price, with sellers continuing to dominate near resistance.

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Markets

Bitcoin under $71,000, ETH, SOL, XRP drop as Iran ceasefire frays within 48 hours of being signed

Tehran says three clauses of the ceasefire have been breached, oil is rebounding toward $97, and the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed despite the deal.

Ranked warplanes on the ground.

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Tech

Bitcoin gets its first working prototype of quantum-resistant wallet rescue tool

Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun demos a prototype that could prevent millions of wallets from being frozen under a future quantum-defense upgrade

Bitcoin quantum resistant. (Chris Ried/Unsplash)

Markets

Move over bitcoin and quantum risks. Anthropic's Mythos AI could have major implications for DeFi

Claude Mythos Preview identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser, including in cryptography libraries that DeFi infrastructure depends on.

(Markus Winkler/Unsplash)