Saksham Diwan

Saksham Diwan is a research analyst at CoinDesk with five years of experience in the digital assets industry. Saksham has spent most of his career on the buy side, initially as an investment analyst at Aaro Capital, a crypto fund of funds, where he led market research, tracked markets and on-chain indicators, and analyzed fund strategies. He later worked as a research analyst at Re7 Capital, a long-only crypto hedge fund, where he developed investment theses, monitored portfolio holdings, built the firm’s research backend and maintained relationships with leading DeFi protocols.

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Profit-taking, MidEast hostilities drag crypto lower after bullish week

Crypto's weekend gains gave way to a Monday selloff as Middle East tensions resurfaced, South Korea's Kospi lost 9.2% and $253 million in leveraged positions were wiped out.

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U.S.-Iran deal lifts equities, sends oil lower, while crypto stays wary

The peace deal reached over the weekend provided the stimulus many markets had been waiting for. Crypto traders, however, have learned to distrust this particular headline

Bitcoin daily chart, June 16, 2026

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Crypto's worst week since July 2024 deepens as bitcoin, ether near critical price levels

Crypto is on course for its worst week since July 2024, with the ether price approaching a critical support as a zcash exploit and AI capital rotation pile on the pressure.

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Bitcoin, ether start June in the red while futures show taste for risk. XLM, HYPE gain

Bitcoin and ether fell Monday after dropping in May, a month that usually sees them post positive returns. U.S. equity index futures rose.

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

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