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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Policy

UK Treasury report on tokenization cites Ripple as convergence model

A Treasury-backed report targets putting repo, gilts and funds onchain within two years, and warms to permissionless networks that firms like Ripple have been building on.

A man seated on a sofa works on a laptop under a Ripple Labs sign. (Ripple Labs)

Markets

Live markets: Bitcoin, stocks, bonds sharply lower as Fed's Waller signals near-term rate hike

The liquidations were minor, running at about a sixth of what the market saw at its worst over the past 30 days, per CoinGlass.

pen rests on paper showing sketched graph going lower.

Markets

Bitcoin holds near $63,800 as war-driven selloff hits everything but crypto

Gold, oil, stocks and bonds all moved sharply on the fourth round of U.S. strikes on Iran, but bitcoin is little-changed.

Map with a pin near Qom in Iran. (Tudoran Andrei/Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin is nearing a power law support line Fidelity has tracked since 2015

The group's Dir. of Global Macro Jurien Timmer calls it an accumulation zone but notes the lack of a catalyst to bounce yet.

(Shutterstock/Jonathan Weiss, modified by CoinDesk)

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Markets

Bitcoin, ether little changed as U.S. launches fresh Iran strikes

The U.S. hit Iran for the third time this week and Tehran has reportedly closed the Strait of Hormuz again.

Iran war reignites

Markets

Ripple once weighed shutting down and handing XRP to shareholders, CEO says

Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse says he and co-founder Chris Larsen considered winding the company down and handing its XRP to shareholders before deciding to fight the 2020 lawsuit.

Ripple is preparing XRP Ledger for quantum computers before ‘Q-Day’ arrives. (Shutterstock)

Tech

Bitcoin’s BIP 110 fork deadline nears with miner support at zero

The BIP 110 proposal would cap arbitrary data on Bitcoin for a year, but Michael Saylor, Adam Back and others say turning a spam dispute into a consensus fight could create a bigger risk than the spam itself.

A fork over a tokenized representation of bitcoin. (Shutterstock)

Tech

AI found an Ethereum bug that could take validators offline, but humans had to prove it

The Ethereum Foundation pointed coordinated AI agents at the software its validators run and got a remotely triggerable crash out of it. It also got a pile of confident, well-written findings that were not bugs at all.

AI found an Ethereum bug that could take validators offline, but humans had to prove it (CoinDesk)

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Markets

Bitcoin analysts predict $300,000–$500,000 price in 2029. The math says no

Analysts predict a rally to $300,000 or more by 2029. But key data suggests the era of moonshots may be over.

(Getty Images)

Tech

Live updates: Bitcoin rises to $64,000 as SK Hynix opens for trade after $26.5 billion IPO

Spot bitcoin funds lost about $95 million on Thursday and ether funds roughly $52 million, ending the one bright spot in crypto's institutional flows even as prices rallied.

1 kg gold bars set out in ranks.