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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XRP holds $1 support as network activity rises and leverage clears out

Active addresses jumped 72% in two weeks while open interest fell to its lowest level since July 2025, giving traders a cleaner setup even as price remains trapped below resistance.

(CoinDesk Data)

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Ether, solana and dogecoin slide as Strategy's bitcoin sales plan pressures market

Bitcoin held below $60,000 as a surging dollar kept crypto pinned. Onchain demand stayed quiet through the week's losses, and Strategy's plan to possibly sell bitcoin added to the caution.

Laptop with markets monitor and charts. (Kanchanara/Unsplash)

Tech

Ripple wants institutions to borrow against tokenized assets on XRPL

A proposed XRPL standard would let institutions borrow against tokenized assets, with the blockchain enforcing loan terms while the underwriting stays with human credit teams. It still needs validator approval to go live.

Ripple reportedly raise $1B fundraise. (Shutterstock)

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Tether's USDT jumps to 8.5% premium in India after crypto payment crackdown

Raids on crypto payment firms in Bengaluru disrupted the pipeline that feeds dollar-pegged USDT to Indian platforms, pushing its local price more than 8.5% above the dollar, roughly double the usual gap.

India's flag (Naveed Ahmed / Unsplash)

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Vitalik Buterin says crypto’s most powerful idea isn't nearly ready for use

The Ethereum co-founder says indistinguishability obfuscation could one day act like a “trustless trusted third party,” but today’s versions remain far too slow for real use.

Vitalik Buterin (CoinDesk Archives)

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South Korea’s $518 billion AI chip push shows crypto is still losing the capital race

Samsung and SK Hynix are pulling a chip-plant buildout forward by a decade to meet AI memory demand. It is the latest and largest sign of the AI capital cycle that has drawn money away from crypto all year.

South Korea (Photo by Daniel Bernard on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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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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Bitcoin falls below $60,000, on track for a rare back-to-back quarterly loss

The token is down nearly 7% on the week with the altcoins falling harder. Bitcoin and ether are both ending the second quarter in the red, a back-to-back losing first half that runs against the usual pattern.

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Why a selloff in gold and silver is dragging bitcoin down

Bitcoin has long been lumped in with precious metals as a hedge against a weakening dollar. That trade is unwinding on a hawkish Fed, and bitcoin is falling alongside the metals it was supposed to rival.

All but one of the recently launched spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) charge a lower fee than the largest gold ETF, making them a cheaper investment into a gold-like asset. (Unsplash)

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Polymarket hack updated to $3.1 million days after the platform promised users full refunds

The prediction markets giant is under investigation in connection with false or deceptive marketing practices, according to news reports.

Eleven Polymarket user wallets targeted by hackers reported nearly $3.1 million in losses after phishing scam.(AidanHowe/Pixabay)