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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Markets

Laywer pops up on Arbitrum DAO forums seeking funds for victims of decades-old North Korean terrorist acts

Families holding decades-old judgments against North Korea are trying to seize 30,765 ETH frozen after last month’s rsETH exploit, citing alleged links between the attack and DPRK-linked hacking groups such as Lazarus, and invoking a New York restraining notice that could block Arbitrum from releasing the funds.

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Markets

Iran missile report sends bitcoin back to $79,000, with ETH, SOL, DOGE sharply lower

The largest crypto reversed sharply from a $80,594 high after Iran's Fars news agency claimed two missiles hit a U.S. warship, with oil spiking 5% before the U.S. denied the report.

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Markets

Crypto bears got it wrong again, losing $300 million in liquidations

Bitcoin's move to $80,000 caught bears on the wrong side of the market again, leading to large short liquidations.

Bear tried. (Alexandru-Bogdan Ghita/Unsplash)

Finance

Strategy raised $82 million last week but holds off on bitcoin buys ahead of earnings

Michael Saylor says the company will resume purchases next week, but the pause lands as analysts focus on losses and the growing complexity of Strategy’s preferred-stock funding machine.

Michael Saylor

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Markets

XRP zooms above $1.40 on rising volume, putting focus on further breakout

Sharp volume surge drives move through $1.40, meaning traders may now watch whether the level holds as support.

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Markets

Dogecoin jumps 4% to lead gains among majors as bitcoin zooms higher

Sharp volume spike drives breakout through resistance, with price now testing whether the level flips to support.

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Markets

Bitcoin above $78,000 as Senate clears Clarity Act yield hurdle, S&P 500 sets new record

Bitcoin recovered from a midweek dip to $75,500 to climb back above $78,000 by Saturday morning in Asia, with the Senate's stablecoin yield compromise removing a key roadblock to crypto market structure legislation.

Rising candle chart on monitor screen (Jakub Żerdzicki/Unsplash)

Tech

New Bitcoin quantum proposal offers Satoshi Nakamoto a way to prove control without moving BTC

A new design proposed by venture fund Paradigm would let holders privately timestamp proof that they control vulnerable keys before quantum computers arrive, creating a possible rescue path if Bitcoin ever sunsets old addresses.

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Tech

Wasabi Protocol drained of $4.5 million in apparent admin key compromise

The exploit used a playbook similar to Drift's $285 million breach earlier this month: a compromised deployer key with no timelock or multisig that drained funds.

Hacker facing screens with lines of code (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

Markets

XRP hits FOMO zone as Rakuten Pay partnership drives social chatter to greed levels

XRP's positive-to-negative sentiment ratio on social media spiked into the FOMO zone on April 29, the same level that has historically marked local tops in the token, per Santiment data.

U.S. sport XRP ETFs have recorded only inflows since their launch.