Omkar Godbole

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor and analyst on CoinDesk's Markets team. He has been covering crypto options and futures, as well as macro and cross-asset activity, since 2019, leveraging his prior experience in directional and non-directional derivative strategies at brokerage firms. His extensive background also encompasses the FX markets, having served as a fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desks for Mumbai-based brokerages and FXStreet. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.

Omkar holds a Master's degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation.

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Markets

Bitcoin faces $80,000 resistance as derivatives show signs of risk aversion

Bitcoin faces profit-taking pressure near $80,000, backed up by a U.S. inflation report that comes as high oil prices and rising bond yields weigh on risk assets.

Oil refinery belching clouds of smoke into the air

Markets

Dogecoin zooms 10%, breaking away from bitcoin as open interest hits a yearly peak

Open interest in DOGE-tracked futures climbed to 15.36 billion tokens, a sign that traders are adding fresh leverage as the memecoin’s price surges.

Shiba inu, the dog breed that inspired dogecoin, now accepted among donations to Ukraine. (Getty Images)

Markets

Ouch. The U.S. 30-year Treasury yield just hit 5% and bitcoin may pay the price

Hawkish dissent within the Federal Reserve, elevated oil prices and rising long-term inflation expectations are pushing bond yields higher.

Display, screen. (Jakub Żerdzicki/Pixabay)

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Markets

Hyperliquid’s HYPE token could be its prediction market weapon, Arthur Hayes says

HIP-4 could become a dominant prediction-market venue because Hyperliquid users can get economic exposure to platform usage through HYPE, unlike users of Polymarket or Kalshi.

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Finance

Securitize, Computershare open path for $70 trillion in U.S. stocks to move onchain

The tie-up between the tokenization specialist and transfer agent giant lets public companies issue blockchain-based shares without changing market structure.

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo (Securitize)

Finance

MoonPay acquires Israeli crypto security firm Sodot in $100 million stock deal

The acquisition gives MoonPay the security infrastructure for a new institutional business led by former CFTC Acting Chair Caroline Pham.

Calculator next to price charts (Jakub Żerdzicki/Unsplash)


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Markets

Bitcoin rebounds from key support as traders eye renewed push toward $80,000

BTC climbs after holding at the $75,600 support level while derivatives signal de-risking, and speculative flows build in memecoins ahead of tech earnings.

BTC chart (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

There's a social media groundswell predicting bitcoin above $90,000. That might be a problem.

The crowd is heavily leaning bullish, and that's often a contrarian signal, according to Santiment.

Hidden in a crowd.

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