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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Tech

Thorchain halts trading after $10 million cross-chain exploit, RUNE token drops 12%

The cross-chain liquidity protocol paused all trading and signing on Friday after an attacker drained roughly $10.8 million across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BSC, and Base.

Person wearing a skeleton mask, with a lifted finger to their mouth. (Max Bender/Unsplash)

Policy

CLARITY will strengthen dollar stablecoins, but Asia wins on yield: HashKey Research

HashKey says U.S. regulatory clarity may unlock institutional adoption of crypto and reinforce USD stablecoins globally, though stricter yield rules could push capital toward Asian markets offering higher returns.

Hong Kong harbor during a sunrise (Manson Yim/Unsplash)

Markets

Cardano whales now hold 67% of ADA supply in highest share since 2020

Wallets holding at least one million ADA now control 25.09 billion tokens, the highest share since July 2020, even as Cardano's TVL has bled to $137 million from a December 2024 peak of $686 million, per Santiment and DefiLlama data.

(CoinDesk)

Policy

Lawyer behind Arbitrum crypto seizure fight now targets Tether for $344 million

Charles Gerstein wants a federal judge to order Tether to transfer OFAC-frozen USDT tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to victims holding unpaid terrorism judgments

View of the Azadi Tower. Tehran, Iran.

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Markets

XRP, DOGE surge 5%, bitcoin above $81,000 as Clarity Act clears Senate banking panel

Crypto majors bid higher Friday after the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee in a 15-9 bipartisan vote, with XRP and dogecoin leading the cohort even as broader risk assets sold off on Trump's comments that the US does not need to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Charts indicating a price surge. (Unsplash)

Markets

XRP edges higher while bitcoin, ether and dogecoin slip, keeping focus on $1.49 breakout zone

XRP outperformed major tokens during a volatile session, with a late volume burst pushing price back toward resistance that has capped rallies for weeks.

(CoinDesk Data)

Markets

Bitcoin’s recent $80,000 breakout was led by something other than U.S. spot buyers, data show

The rally was led by leveraged traders and not U.S.-based spot buyers. Hence, its. sustainability is being questioned.

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Tech

Claude helps recover $395,000 in bitcoin trapped on a computer for years

The owner had been trying for eight weeks to brute-force the password on their current Blockchain.com wallet, testing roughly 3.5 trillion combinations using the btcrecover service on a rented computing chip.

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Markets

TRUMP token down 5% as namesake handset begins shipping next week

Trump Mobile's T1 handset appears to be a re-skinned HTC U24 with assembly done in the U.S.

Donald Trump points at the audience during a press conference at the White House (Getty Images)

Markets

Solana drops 5%, bitcoin below $80,000 as Xi warns Trump on Taiwan conflict

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Donald Trump of potential conflict over Taiwan during the first U.S. presidential visit to China in nearly a decade.

U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping (Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images)