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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BONK faces $20 million treasury drain after attacker spends $4 million to pass malicious proposal

The attacker bought enough of the memecoin's tokens to pass a governance proposal that sent the group's holdings to a wallet they controlled, then began selling.

A BONK ad in Salt Lake City (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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XRP stalls near $1.14 as breakout attempt struggles for volume

Buyers defended the session lows and pushed XRP back toward resistance, but muted overall volume left traders waiting for confirmation above $1.13-$1.14.

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Bitcoin drops after a run at $64,000, shrugging off Strategy's $213 million BTC sale

The token touched $64,400 overnight before easing back, still up about 6% on the week. A fresh missile strike on a Qatari gas ship in the Strait of Hormuz lifted oil and tested the late-June peace deal as Asian tech sold off again.

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Bitcoin miner TeraWulf soars on a $19 billion AI data-center lease with Anthropic

The onetime pure bitcoin miner signed a 20-year deal to host the AI firm at a Kentucky campus, the latest crypto-adjacent company to trade mining for the steadier money in artificial-intelligence infrastructure.

An engineer sits at a bank of crypto mining rigs.

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Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum is preparing its 'biggest rebuild' since the Merge

A revised roadmap details how the multi-year overhaul would replace nearly every major part of Ethereum's protocol, with quantum resistance and privacy moving up the priority list. It lands as ether rallies more than 12% in the past seven days.

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Live markets: Bitcoin recoups early decline, rising back above $63,000

Strategy raised $216 milliion with the sale of 3,588 bitcoin last week, sending prices lower earlier on Monday.

Bitcoin, ether whipsaw wipes out $280 million even as prices remain flat over 24 hours. (Shutterstock)

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XRP rises 3% as $1.14 breakout turns into support test

Heavy volume pushed XRP through resistance, but sellers met the move near $1.16 and left traders watching whether former resistance can now hold as support.

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Ether leads crypto's hold above key levels as bitcoin steadies over $63,000

A stalling rebound in AI and chip stocks and a stronger dollar kept the mood cautious as the second half gets underway.

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Americans traded $571 million on Polymarket politic bets despite U.S. ban

U.S.-linked wallets traded $571 million in political contracts over the past year, more than any other country, even though the platform legally cannot serve them. The money leans toward the foreign-conflict markets U.S. venues do not list.

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Bitcoin jumps above $63,000, reversing end-June losses

The token hit its highest in over a month during thin July 4 trading, with XRP up 5% in 24 hours to lead gains among majors.

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