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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Markets

Bitcoin drops toward $62,000 as the chip selloff deepens for a second day

A renewed rout in semiconductor stocks pulled risk assets lower again, and crypto kept sliding. Bitcoin is down 5% on the week, with ether and the memecoins falling harder.

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Strategy's STRC slump prompts Terra comparisons that don't hold up, says analyst

Benchmark's Mark Palmer says the comparison misreads what STRC is — a dividend-paying share backed indirectly by bitcoin, not a peg waiting to break.

Michae Saylor (Jason Koerner/Getty Images)

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Live updates: Saylor's Strategy sinks to new 52-week low as bitcoin drops to $62,000

Crypto prices are again on the defensive amid a global stock rout set off by a 10% plunge in South Korea's Kospi.

pen rests on paper showing sketched graph going lower.

Markets

XRP drifts toward $1.10 support as traders await break from three-week range

Weak volume and fading momentum kept XRP pinned near the bottom of its recent range, with the $1.05-$1.10 area emerging as the market's key line in the sand.

(CoinDesk Data)

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SpaceX’s $600 billion plunge erased equivalent of nearly half of bitcoin’s market cap in 3 days

The newly public company shed close to half of bitcoin's entire market value in three sessions after announcing its first bond sale. Bitcoin, absorbing the same backdrop, fell less than 1%.

Starlink Mission. (Official SpaceX Photos/flickr)

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Bitcoin falls under $63,000 as a tech selloff drags risk assets lower

A rotation out of this year's best AI and chip stocks sank Asian markets, with South Korea's Kospi down 6%, and crypto fell with them. Bitcoin is down more than 3% on the week.

A trader sits in front of multiple screens holding his head. (Unsplash+/Getty Images)

Tech

Taiko halts its Ethereum layer-2 network after a bridge exploit, token dives

An attacker forged withdrawal proofs to drain about $1.7 million, the same type of flaw behind this year's biggest bridge hacks. Fast containment kept the damage small.

Hacker sitting in a room (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

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Live markets: Bitcoin gives up morning gains as Nasdaq sheds more than 1%

Eased ETF selling and improving risk appetite are being offset by a firmer dollar and cautious institutional flows, leaving bitcoin range-bound, one analyst said.

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Ethereum validators asked to fund projects with up to 10% of staking rewards under new proposal

A new governance proposal would let validators redirect part of their staking income toward ecosystem funding, raising questions about coordination, incentives and who gets to decide where the money goes.

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XRP briefly loses $1.14 support before buyers drive sharp rebound

Heavy selling pushed XRP to its lowest level of the weekend session, but strong buying quickly erased most of the decline and returned the token to its recent trading range.

(CoinDesk Data)