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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XRP Ledger transactions jump to 2.7M as price stays rangebound

Traders are watching whether support near $1.34 holds after repeated rejection near $1.44.

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Elon Musk announces X Money launch date for April

The payments app offers 6% yield on balances and peer-to-peer transfers inside X, competing directly with the same demand stablecoin products are targeting. No mention of dogecoin or any crypto functionality was included.

Elon Musk (jurvetson /CC BY 2.0./Modified by CoinDesk)

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Anthropic is suing the U.S. government for allegedly blacklisting its AI

The maker of Claude filed suit against multiple federal agencies, arguing it was shut out of government procurement without the legal process required to ban a vendor.

Artificial Intelligence (Markus Winkler/Unsplash)

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Nvidia's Huang argues AI creates jobs, not destroys them, in rare official blog post

The Nvidia CEO laid out a five-layer framework for AI infrastructure in his first standalone blog post in months, pushing back against the narrative that AI will destroy jobs.

(Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks at CES 2026 in Las Vegas/Nvidia)

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Hyperliquid's next upgrade to let seasoned traders take bigger bets with less capital

Hyperliquid will introduce portfolio margin for real trading accounts, letting users offset risk across positions and support larger trades with less collateral.

Digital screens, business & work. (Joshua Aragon/Pixabay)

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Hyperliquid’s tokenized futures hit $1.2B as traders bet on oil, stocks

Trading has been driven largely by tokenized futures on equities and commodities such as oil, gold and silver.

Hands rest on the keyboard of a laptop showing trading graphs, data. (Kanchanara / Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)

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Ether treasury firm Bitmine moves $19.5 million in ETH to Coinbase Prime

The largest public ether holder sent two transfers totaling $19.5 million to Coinbase Prime hot wallets on Tuesday, though the moves don't necessarily signal selling.

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Sharplink Gaming holds 868,000 ether as price drop drove $734 million loss in 2025

The Nasdaq-listed company raised $3.2 billion in 2025 to buy ether, doubled its ETH per share, but watched unrealized losses eat through the income statement as the token fell 45% from its peak.

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Pudgy Penguins launches its 'Club Penguin' moment, and the game doesn't feel like crypto at all

Pudgy World went live with 12 towns, plot-based quests, and mini-games in what the team calls "one of the most technically advanced browser-based games ever created." The PENGU token jumped 9% on the news.

Image of several Pudgy Penguin NFTs (Pudgy Penguins)

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Bhutan sells $42.5 million of bitcoin in 2026 as national stack drops 58% from peak

The Himalayan kingdom moved another 175 BTC on Monday, continuing a drawdown that has taken its holdings from a peak of roughly 13,000 BTC to under 5,400 in just over a year.

Buddha point, Thimphu, Bhutan (Passang Tobgay/Unsplash)