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.

Shaurya Malwa

Latest from Shaurya Malwa


Tech

A new Solana proposal aims to ramp up daily SOL Burns from $47,000 to $650,000

SGP-0003 bundles a fee overhaul with a doubling of the disinflation rate. It needs 40 million more SOL of validator support in two weeks to reach a vote.

Solana sign (CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin nears $64,000 as traders look past Strategy's BTC sales and Coldcard sweeps

Every major token except ether is green on the week, with BTC up 1.9% over 24 hours and Asian equities selling off on AI-trade jitters.

Bitcoin nears $64,000 as traders look past the fourth Coldcard sweep. (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

Bitcoin, ether decline as Coldcard exploit enters a fifth day

Nevertheless, the drop in crypto prices seems restrained given the magnitude of losses in the wallet hack and the erosion of confidence in cold storage.

Bitcoin price chart

Finance

Live updates: Bitcoin flirts with $64,000 as stocks start strong in August

ARP Digital’s Yusuf Fakhro said bitcoin’s weakness reflects stalled participation more than forced selling, with ETF flows turning negative, CME open interest back at 2023 levels and Strategy idle for a fifth straight week.

BTC

Advertisement

Tech

Coldcard wallet losses may near $114 million as possible fourth sweep emerges

The pending transactions signal replace-by-fee, so anyone who spots their address in the mempool has minutes to pay a higher fee and move funds first.

Bitcoin cold-wallet losses may near $114 million as possible fourth sweep emerges. (Coldcard/Coinkite)

Markets

Bitcoin slips under $63,000 despite Iran deal hopes as Coldcard losses rattle market

Oil and Treasury yields fell after fresh U.S.-Iran talks eased inflation fears, but bitcoin and ether failed to catch a bid as fresh Coldcard-linked sweeps pushed observed losses to nearly $89 million.

Bitcoin slips under $63,000 despite Iran deal hopes as Coldcard losses near $89 million. (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

Trump Media’s bitcoin stash may be down to loan collateral after $165 million BTC move

Wallets tied to the Truth Social parent now hold about as much bitcoin as the company previously pledged as note collateral, making its next 10-Q the key test of whether recent Crypto.com transfers were custody moves or sales.

President Donald Trump and Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek (Crypto.com)

Tech

Bitcoin cold-wallet attack spreads to 4,500 addresses as losses near $89 million

Galaxy Research flagged a third wave of sweeps tied to weak Coldcard-generated keys, with the attacker now targeting smaller balances and changing how funds are collected onchain.

Hacker facing screens with lines of code (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

Advertisement

Tech

XRP Ledger upgrade brings back features once pulled over critical bugs

The xrpld 3.3.0 release is expected next week with five proposed amendments, including two revised features that were previously withdrawn after researchers found bugs that could have allowed unauthorized transactions or fee draining.

Glasses in front of monitors with code (Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

Tech

How bitcoin cold wallets lost $70 million in an attack that never touched the devices

Galaxy Research said weak seed generation let an attacker recreate likely private keys offline, sweep more than 1,000 BTC from nearly 1,200 wallets and continue searching without ever accessing the devices.

Bitcoin cold wallet Coldcard. (Coldcard/Coinkite)