Shaurya Malwa

Shaurya is the Co-Leader of the CoinDesk tokens and data team in Asia with a focus on crypto derivatives, DeFi, market microstructure, and protocol analysis.

Shaurya holds over $1,000 in BTC, ETH, SOL, AVAX, SUSHI, CRV, NEAR, YFI, YFII, SHIB, DOGE, USDT, USDC, BNB, MANA, MLN, LINK, XMR, ALGO, VET, CAKE, AAVE, COMP, ROOK, TRX, SNX, RUNE, FTM, ZIL, KSM, ENJ, CKB, JOE, GHST, PERP, BTRFLY, OHM, BANANA, ROME, BURGER, SPIRIT, and ORCA.

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 reclaims $75,000 as Iran ceasefire talks advance, equities rally resumes

Bitcoin traded at $75,733 on Tuesday morning, up 1.5% over 24 hours, as Iran signaled it will send a team to Pakistan talks and Brent crude slipped ahead of the Wednesday ceasefire deadline.

Map of Iran with a pin just north of Esfahan. (Tudoran Andrei/Shutterstock)

Tech

Kelp DAO claims LayerZero’s 'default' settings are what actually caused the massive $290 million disaster

The liquid restaking protocol said the compromised verifier was LayerZero's own infrastructure, and the setup it was faulted for running was LayerZero's onboarding default.

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Markets

Bitcoin is rallying as flagship conference approaches, data shows the gains rarely last

After a 50% slide and partial recovery for bitcoin, traders are watching whether the Las Vegas event marks another short-term top for bitcoin.

BTC Returns from BTC Conference (Galaxy and Investing.Com)

Markets

A $300 million borrowing spike on Aave signals liquidity crunch after KelpDAO exploit

The aftershocks of the Saturday's KelpDAO hack are spreading through stablecoin markets in ways that were not immediately obvious.

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

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Bitcoin, ether, solana slide, oil jumps on renewed U.S.-Iran war risks

Bitcoin traded at $74,335 after Iran reimposed controls on the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, with the modest 1.6% pullback standing out against a 5.7% jump in Brent and a 1.2% drop in European equity futures.

Oil tanker at sea. (Gerhard Traschütz/Pixabay)

Tech

LayerZero blames Kelp's setup for $290 million exploit, attributes it to North Korea's Lazarus

LayerZero said the attackers compromised two RPC nodes the company's verifier relied on and DDoS'd the rest, with the attack working only because Kelp had ignored multi-verifier recommendations.

North Korea flag

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Aave sees $6 billion deposit drop as Kelp hack exposes structural risk for DeFi lender

The AAVE token fell 16% and deposits fled the protocol after attackers used drained rsETH as collateral to borrow wrapped ether, leaving Aave to quantify how much bad debt it is now carrying.

Aave Labs founder Stani Kulechov and Ethena founder + CEO Guy Young (Margaux Nijkerk/ CoinDesk)

Markets

RaveDAO's RAVE token collapses 90% in a day as exchange probes widen

The token traded at $1.15 on Sunday, down from a $27.33 peak on Friday, wiping out more than $5 billion in market cap as investigations into Binance and Bitget advance.

Bitcoin slides back into familiar range (Shutterstock)

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Tech

2026's biggest crypto exploit: $292 million gets drained from Kelp DAO with wrapped ether stranded across 20 chains

An attacker drained 116,500 rsETH, roughly 18% of circulating supply, from Kelp's LayerZero-powered bridge on Saturday, triggering emergency freezes across Aave, SparkLend, Fluid and Upshift.

Cypher Protocol suffers exploit (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

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Bitcoin 'plebs eat first' mining pool Parasite finds its second BTC block

Parasite Pool, which pays 1 BTC to the block finder and splits the rest among all participants, mined block 945,601 on Friday, about 48 days after its first.

Bitcoin mining USB devices on a large USB hub.