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

Trump administration weighs a global stablecoin plan to cement dollar's dominance

Washington is a mulling plan to actively promote USD-backed stablecoins worldwide in a bid to cement the greenback's global reserve status.

Donald Trump (Credit: Library of Congress on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

A week of AI coding cut a quantum-safe bitcoin transaction estimate from $320 to $66

StarkWare, which conducted the research, says contest participants using AI tools made the computation about five times faster, though the $66 figure has not yet been demonstrated in another transaction mined on Bitcoin.

A person holding up a tokenized representation of bitcoin. (Art Rachen/Unsplash)

Markets

Dogecoin down 8%, bitcoin under $84,000 as Treasury yields hit highest level since 2007

A rebound in oil, the strongest U.S. business survey in five years and a poorly received five-year note sale pushed borrowing costs higher, with DOGE leading token losses.

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Finance

Live updates: Bitcoin pulls back to $84,000 as bond yields fly higher

The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield has soared 18 basis points on Wednesday to its highest level since 2007.

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Tech

XRP Ledger retries upgrade that lets banks split payment and compliance duties

The upgrade could activate Oct. 5, letting businesses give another account limited powers such as making payments or approving customers without handing over full control.

A coder working on a computer. (Shutterstock)

Tech

Solana starts testing upgrade that could cut finality from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds

Alpenglow would let exchanges, bridges and merchants treat payments as irreversible almost immediately.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko (CoinDesk)

Markets

Zcash leads crypto majors with a 10% gain as bitcoin holds near $87,000

Falling oil eased inflation worries through the Asian session, while a bill to make the government's bitcoin stockpile permanent moved further through Congress than any before it.

Zcash leads crypto majors with a 10% gain as bitcoin holds near $87,000. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin, ether perpetual volumes on Kalshi are dominated by an unusual, repetitive trade, data shows

CoinDesk found one $5,499 trade size accounting for 57% of sampled ether-perpetual volume, while recurring $2,500 and $5,000 trade sizes made up 54% of sampled bitcoin-perpetual volume.

A person holding a phone displaying the Kalshi app. (Getty)

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Policy

Binance buys $100 million Circle stake in five-year USDC promotion deal

Circle sold 1.24 million shares at $80.84 each and will pay Binance a monthly fee tied to USDC held through its wallet infrastructure.

Changpeng Zhao (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin recovers from Asian-session lows as falling oil price supports risk appetite

Bitcoin traded near $86,000 as WTI crude dropped below $90 and strong stock markets supported risk appetite.

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