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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Ethereum’s upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade clears rehearsal for a big jump in capacity

The test network raised its limit on work per block toward 200 million gas as developers prepare for a proposed October 6 public test.

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Live updates: Bitcoin continues near $76,000 as stocks surge following Fed rate hike

The SEC debuted its long-awaited "innovation exemption," providing a roadmap for blockchain-based venues to offer tokenized securities.

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Ripple adds XRP payments to Stripe and Tempo’s AI standard in new developer kit

The update expands support for automated payments in XRP and RLUSD, with tools that let agents pay repeatedly for services and manage wallets across blockchains.

Tokenized representation of Ripple's logo on a pile of cash. (Wildbook/Unsplash)

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Zcash jumps 23% as bitcoin and major tokens rise despite Fed’s first hike since 2023

Bitcoin traded above $76,000 as the Fed projected limited further tightening, while Paradigm’s Matt Huang discussed Zcash’s role as a privacy complement to bitcoin.

Zcash jumps 23% as bitcoin and major tokens rise despite Fed’s first hike since 2023. (CoinDesk Data)

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Bitcoin Core 32 enters final testing with faster validation, fee changes and security fixes

The October update changes how nodes estimate transaction fees and process blocks, while fixing a wallet flaw that could let an authenticated user run commands on a node.

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Live updates: Bitcoin steady as stocks slide following Fed rate hike, Warsh press conference

Privacy token zcash, meanwhile, is up 130% over 30 days and trades near its all-time highs from 2016.

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Ethereum, Base give up on common wallet standard after months of talks

Ethereum is moving ahead with EIP-8141 while Coinbase-backed Base backs EIP-8130, leaving wallets and apps that span both networks facing different transaction systems.

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Zcash holders overwhelmingly back faster transactions and bitcoin-style halvings

Nearly 2.4 million ZEC participated, with 99.9% backing 25-second blocks and 98.9% voting to preserve the network’s existing halving schedule.

A Zcash mining rig. (Victority/Shutterstock)

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XRP sinks 10% as the Clarity Act fails and bitcoin slides toward $76,000

The Senate's 49-50 procedural vote left the crypto market structure bill 11 short of what it needed, and every major token fell.

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A hacker turned 25 cents of bitcoin into 46 billion fake BTC tokens on a DeFi bridge

Two software bugs allowed the attacker to create more than 2,000 times Bitcoin’s maximum supply in unbacked syBTC. Symbiosis puts preliminary losses at 9.97 BTC.

Hackers. Data and security breach. (Kevin Horvat on Unsplash)