Omkar Godbole

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor and analyst on CoinDesk's Markets team. He has been covering crypto options and futures, as well as macro and cross-asset activity, since 2019, leveraging his prior experience in directional and non-directional derivative strategies at brokerage firms. His extensive background also encompasses the FX markets, having served as a fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desks for Mumbai-based brokerages and FXStreet. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.

Omkar holds a Master's degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation.

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Tech

Private keys, not smart contracts, caused 40% of crypto's $16 billion hack losses. Here's whats being done.

The industry is moving toward fixing the private key vulnerability issue, just not evenly, Wish Wu, co-founder and CEO of Pharos, said.

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Markets

Bitcoin hovers below $60,000 as crypto braces for a pivotal week

BTC added 0.6% to $59,800 to start the week while SOL rose 2%, though derivatives data and chart formations point to continued downside risk.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data)

Markets

BIS warns stablecoins are more like ETFs than actual money, and they're creating FX risk

BIS's latest annual report dives into stablecoins and AI trends.

The BIS building in Basel

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Finance

Crypto exchange BitMEX loses CEO, CFO and head of growth

The firm’s global general counsel, Peter Wilkinson, has taken over as CEO from Stephan Lutz.

Former BitMEX CEO Stephan Lutz stands in a posed phototgraph. (BitMEX)

Tech

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Live updates: bitcoin pinned to $60,000 as U.S. stocks surge higher

Stocks are about to close out their best quarter since 2020 as crypto continues to get crushed.

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Markets

$4 billion gone. Spot bitcoin ETFs are on track for their worst month on record

Investors have pulled out $4 billion from the U.S.-listed spot bitcoin ETFs in June, the highest outflow on record.

AI trading screens. (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin bounces from $58,000 as derivatives signal more pain in the pipeline

BTC touched its lowest level since September 2024 before rebounding to $59,770, while ETH slipped further and another $1 billion in futures positions were wiped out.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

Too big to fail: Strategy’s $13 billion bitcoin paper loss alone dwarfs hundreds of prominent tokens

Strategy’s paper loss exceeds the market caps of hundreds of tokens, highlighting the extreme concentration of risk in the crypto market right now.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

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