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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Strategy’s bitcoin sale sparks a $14 million betting chaos on Polymarket

The 8-K filing by Strategy Monday disclosed sales for the period May 26 to May 31, but the disclosure was issued on June 1. Polymarket's May 31 contract is sitting at 81% Yes and in review, while bettors argue over whether the onchain transactions or the filing date controls.

Executive Chairman of MSTR, Michael Saylor (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Live markets: Bitcoin retreats under $72,000 as Strategy unloads BTC for first time in four years

Crypto markets continue to struggle even as risk markets across the globe surge higher.

A downward arrow chart pointing to a bitcoin symbol. (Pixabay)

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Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 32 bitcoin for $2.5 million to fund dividend payments

The 8-K filing Monday says proceeds from the May 26-31 sale, executed at an average price of $77,135 a coin, will fund distributions on Strategy's preferred stock.

Strategy's Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin, ether start June in the red while futures show taste for risk. XLM, HYPE gain

Bitcoin and ether fell Monday after dropping in May, a month that usually sees them post positive returns. U.S. equity index futures rose.

Laptop with markets monitor and charts. (Kanchanara/Unsplash)

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Whitehat developer unlocks $2 million stuck in a 2016 Ethereum ICO contract for nine years

0xflorent, a security researcher, found an integer-overflow flaw in the HongCoin token sale contract that lets the team unlock funds for 48 original investors. It is the second such recovery he has publicized in eight days.

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XRP drops to $1.32 as sellers overpower exchange outflows

XRP hit a 15-week low before stabilizing, with traders watching whether the latest washout turns into a base or another leg lower.

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Three Sui mainnet halts in 48 hours traced to an upgrade bug by developers

The Sui Foundation's post-mortem published Sunday traces all three outages to interactions between a new address-balance feature shipped in the v1.72 release and the network's existing gas and consensus logic.

Blockchain (Shubham Dhage/Unsplash)

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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)

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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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