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

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)

Markets

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)

Finance

Coinbase and OKX try to lure in Binance’s EU users after it failed to secure a MiCA license

Brian Armstrong of Coinbase and Star Xu of OKX offered new users sign up bonuses of up to 8% of their deposits or transfers from other accounts.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong at the White House

Markets

Ripple CEO stays bullish on bitcoin but says Saylor's strategy has hurt crypto

Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse called Strategy's preferred-stock funding model "financial engineering" that distracted the market, pointing to STRC's slide to a record low as the evidence. He runs the company behind XRP, a bitcoin rival.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Consensus 2026 in Miami (CoinDesk)

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Dogecoin and Hyperliquid's HYPE led weekly crypto losses as AI stocks lure buyers

A rotation out of chipmakers lifted much of the stock market, with the equal-weight S&P 500 at a record. Crypto was not part of it. Ether fell 8% on the week and the memecoins dropped harder.

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Markets

Ethereum treasury firm Sharplink buys ether for the first time in eight months

The second-largest corporate ether holder purchased 5,000 ETH worth about $7.85 million on Thursday, its first inflow since October, even as it sits on a paper loss of roughly $1.8 billion.

Graphic showing ethereum symbol on a grid with screens.

Finance

Grant Cardone says he will keep buying bitcoin using real estate cash flows

The real estate investor pitched his model as a treasury company backed by cash-flowing property rather than stock sales, framing the slide in bitcoin as a chance to accumulate.

Grant Cardone. (CoinDesk)

Markets

Too big to fail: Strategy’s $13 billion bitcoin paper loss alone dwarfs hundreds of prominent tokens

Strategy’s paper loss exceeds the market caps of hundreds of tokens, highlighting the extreme concentration of risk in the crypto market right now.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

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Ether, XRP and dogecoin lead a broad crypto selloff as tech stocks tumble

Bitcoin slipped near $58,000 before recovering, and CF Benchmarks says the $50,000 to $60,000 zone is where buyers have always stepped in.

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Tech

Live markets: Bitcoin edges higher as U.S. stocks recover from big early losses

Markets are reassessing the certainty of one or more Fed rate hikes this year.

Trading screen with price monitors and charts (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)