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

ETH, SOL, ADA drop 5% as Trump trade threats and bond selloff spark crypto risk-off

A global risk-off wave tied to Trump’s tariff threats, tensions with Europe and a shock selloff in Japanese bonds pushed investors out of risky trades.

Coins falling from a jar. (Josh Appel/Unsplash)

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XRP pattern echoes February 2022, putting recent buyers under pressure

XRP’s holder mix is starting to look like early 2022, with fresh demand coming in below the cost basis of longer-term wallets, Glassnode said.

XRP symbol on top of dollar bills. (Unsplash/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin drop to $89,000 leads to $1 billion liquidations for bullish BTC bets

Roughly 92% of the $1.09 billion in liquidations came from long bets, indicative of how heavily traders had been positioned for further gains before prices reversed.

The swift price movements over the past two days wiped out leveraged long and short positions. (Kurt Anderson/Unsplash)

Markets

Makina loses $4.1 million in exploit tied to price-feed manipulation

An attacker used flash loans to manipulate pricing data in Makina’s DUSD/USDC Curve pool, draining more than $4 million before MEV bots captured part of the haul.

Under a low-light red lamp, a pair of hands types on a keyboard. (Wesley Tingey/Unsplash+)

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Yield trading platform Pendle debuts new token to boost user capital efficiency

Pendle is overhauling its token economics, scrapping multi-year locks in favor of a liquid staking model and a new revenue-driven reward system.

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'White Whale' memecoin slides 60% after top holder dumps $1.3 million

A major holder’s exit sent White Whale sharply lower on Monday, with the project calling the move a “liquidity event."

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Bitcoin falls under $91,000 as solana, xrp and cardano nurse weekly losses

Tuesday’s crypto tape was steadier after Monday’s tariff-driven wobble, but sentiment remains cautious with altcoins still weaker than bitcoin.

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XRP slips below $2 after failed breakout triggers sharp reversal

Once the breakout attempt stalled, sellers pressed the tape, triggering a sharp reversal that cleared out late longs and flipped short-term structure bearish.

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Bitcoin, ether, solana and XRP extend ETF inflow streak before reversal

Bitcoin funds took in $1.55 billion while ethereum and solana added $496 million and $45.5 million, respectively.

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Finance

Bitcoin price briefly plunges to $0 on lesser-known Paradex exchange

Starknet-based DEX Paradex reversed its blockchain to an earlier block after a database migration error briefly crashed bitcoin’s price to zero.

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