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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Markets

Bitcoin rises from one-month low while derivatives flash near-term stress: Crypto Markets Today

Bitcoin bounced off $86,000 alongside the CME futures open, but broader price action still points to a grinding downtrend as risk-off sentiment lifts precious metals.

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Research Reports

The Futarchy of Privacy: Umbra's Fit in a Private Crypto World

Institutions need privacy. Umbra’s moat is encrypted shared state via Arcium MXE. Key catalysts: Feb 2026 mainnet launch and Solana Confidential SPL.

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Research Reports

Capture the Flow: Evaluating the Ranger Finance Launch Narrative

Aggregators win by cross-selling high-margin products. Ranger raised $86M on MetaDAO to be Solana's trading hub, though RNGR faces post-ICO sell pressure.

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Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin Slides to $91K as ETF Outflows Deepen Market Anxiety

Bitcoin’s early week rally unraveled as sharp ETF outflows, aggressive derivatives deleveraging and muted altcoin reactions to catalysts pulled the broader crypto market lower.

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Research Reports

Solomon's Synthetic Dollar in a Declining Treasury Market

Funding rate arbitrage is emerging as a renewed yield engine in a declining Treasury environment, and Solomon, a MetaDAO backed synthetic dollar protocol, offers a nascent take on the Ethena style trade with cleaner tokenomics, built in yield, and early stage valuation considerations.

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Uniswap’s UNIfication Proposal - Buybacks & Competitive Risk

The fee switch ties UNI’s value to protocol revenue for the first time - but Aerodrome’s expansion could limit the upside.

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