Shaurya Malwa

Shaurya is a Senior Ecosystems Analyst driving CoinDesk's market-leading coverage on tokens, data and insights, with a deep focus on crypto derivatives, DeFi, market microstructure, and protocol analysis.

Shaurya holds over $1,000 in BTC, ETH, SOL, DOGE, TOSHI, MOG and CAT.

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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SpaceX's first bitcoin wallet movements in six months likely don't signal sales

Onchain trackers found the newly public company shifted a tiny amount of bitcoin between its own addresses. Nothing reached an exchange.

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Validators embrace XRP Ledger's recent upgrade. But not everyone’s on board yet

The new software leads among the network's validators, yet by node count it sits behind the older v3.1.3, and the security amendment bundled with it remains a separate, slower vote. The upgrade needs 80% of the trusted validator list to activate.

Glasses in front of monitors with code (Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

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Live markets: Bitcoin drops to $62,000 as oil and bond yields surge on collapse of Iran ceasefire

Hedge funds have turned the most bearish on the yen since 2007, boosting bets on further losses to nearly 138,000 contracts as of June 30.

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Bitcoin, XRP draw Japanese firms as weak yen drives treasury diversification

SBI VC Trade says corporate demand for crypto is rising as a weak yen pushes firms to diversify reserves, part of a run that took its registered accounts past 2 million.

Japanese flag (Shutterstock)

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Binance taps into Bitcoin holders’ hunger for yield with new covered call yield play

The product, called BTC Yield, is designed exclusively for people who already hold bitcoin.

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Live markets: Iran returns to the headlines, hitting markets

Bitcoin and ether ETFs drew fresh inflows Monday as the bid starts to return.

List of prices with up/down arrows and percentage change (geralt/Pixabay)

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BONK faces $20 million treasury drain after attacker spends $4 million to pass malicious proposal

The attacker bought enough of the memecoin's tokens to pass a governance proposal that sent the group's holdings to a wallet they controlled, then began selling.

A BONK ad in Salt Lake City (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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XRP stalls near $1.14 as breakout attempt struggles for volume

Buyers defended the session lows and pushed XRP back toward resistance, but muted overall volume left traders waiting for confirmation above $1.13-$1.14.

(CoinDesk Data)

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Bitcoin drops after a run at $64,000, shrugging off Strategy's $213 million BTC sale

The token touched $64,400 overnight before easing back, still up about 6% on the week. A fresh missile strike on a Qatari gas ship in the Strait of Hormuz lifted oil and tested the late-June peace deal as Asian tech sold off again.

Bull and bear (Shutterstock)

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Bitcoin miner TeraWulf soars on a $19 billion AI data-center lease with Anthropic

The onetime pure bitcoin miner signed a 20-year deal to host the AI firm at a Kentucky campus, the latest crypto-adjacent company to trade mining for the steadier money in artificial-intelligence infrastructure.

An engineer sits at a bank of crypto mining rigs.