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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Bitcoin slips below $68,000 as dollar posts steepest weekly gain in a year

Most majors gave back Friday's gains, with solana down 4%, ether falling 4.4%, and 43% of bitcoin's supply now sitting at a loss according to Glassnode data.

Dollar bills (Credit: Vladimir Solomianyi on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Almost nobody is talking about altseason anymore. That may be bullish

Social media mentions of "altseason" have dropped to their lowest level in two years, according to Santiment data, a contrarian signal that has preceded previous rallies in speculative crypto assets.

image of a crypto trader aka degen (Anjo Clacino/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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XRP drops 3% after failing to break $1.45 resistance

Traders are watching $1.40 support after high-volume selling confirmed continued bearish structure.

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Bitcoin drops under $71,000, ETH, DOGE slide as war-week rally runs into resistance

BTC surged nearly 12% from Saturday's lows before stalling, with Asia's benchmark equities index headed for its worst week since March 2020.

Several balloons float against the ceiling

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Ether, solana, xrp surge 8% as crypto markets rally on easing war fears

Ether surged 7.5%, dogecoin jumped 7.5%, and solana added 5.3% as global equities rebounded and $700 million flowed into U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs since the start of March.

Trading charts on multiple screens. (sergeitokmakov/Pixabay)

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Ray Dalio says 'there is only one gold' as bitcoin outperforms gold during worst geopolitical crisis in years

The Bridgewater founder dismissed bitcoin's safe-haven credentials on the same day gold dropped 3% while bitcoin fell less than 1%.

Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater. (CoinDesk archives)

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Bitcoin holds, ether, solana slide as Mideast woes drag Asian equities to multi-year lows

The largest cryptocurrency briefly reclaimed the top of its range on Tuesday before sellers pushed it back to $67,000, while South Korean stocks posted their worst two-day drop since 2008.

a sketched graph, heading downward, on a piece of paper

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Ripple expands payments platform into end-to-end stablecoin infrastructure as processed volume tops $100 billion

The company added managed custody, virtual account collections, and fiat-to-stablecoin settlement capabilities, positioning itself as a single provider for enterprise digital asset payments across 60 markets.

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Bitcoin, cryptos under pressure as oil spikes 6% and global markets price in U.S.-Iran conflict

Bitcoin fell back to $66,700 as traditional markets opened to their first chance to price the weekend's military escalation, with oil surging to $77 and Asian equities dropping 1.4%.

North Sea oil rig.

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SpaceX’s $780 million bitcoin stack now down to about $545 million ahead of IPO filing

The company holds about 8,285 bitcoin in Coinbase Prime custody, a stake now worth roughly $545 million after a $235 million decline in value over the past three months.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk