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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An OpenAI agent ran out of Ethereum funds, and took from a wallet it did not own

The research model derived funded Sepolia addresses from public seed phrases, questioned whether using the money was ethical, then called the funds “effectively abandoned” and used them anyway.

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Bitcoin buyers snap up a brief drop below $80,000 as Asian stocks rebound

Bitcoin tore back to $82,500 within two hours of dipping under $80,000, and chipmakers in Seoul recovered from their worst close since April.

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Live updates: Bitcoin bounces back to $82,000 after first fall below $80,000 in one month

Stocks also turned positive after big early losses, helped by sharply lower bond yields.

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Nearly $1 billion in crypto bets liquidated as bitcoin, ether and XRP slide

Ether accounted for nearly 60% of the forced closures across the two largest cryptocurrencies, falling roughly twice as much as bitcoin.

Screen showing a market drop (Pincasso/Shutterstock)

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Bitcoin mining pool once handling 2.3% of network shuts after hashrate falls 65%

Computing power directed at Binance Pool has fallen from 26 EH/s in December to about 9 EH/s. Its remaining miners must choose another provider before a Nov. 10 cutoff.

ASIC mining rigs (Winston Chen/Unsplash)

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Live updates: Bitcoin falls back to $82,000 after inflation rises more than forecast

An historic turnaround lower in interest rates suggests the possibility that the bond bear market may have run its course.

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Coinbase, which holds 5% of all bitcoin, wants the quantum fix started now

Coinbase says bitcoin should start preparing for quantum computers now, with flexible addresses, a backup quantum-proof key and a separate debate over lost coins.

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Ripple adds Stripe-owned wallets to XRP Ledger as AI payments pass 14 million

The integration will let software pay for online services using XRP and RLUSD, while questions remain about how much real economic activity the transactions represent.

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple Labs (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Solana sets Oct. 21 for Alpenglow upgrade targeting 150-millisecond finality

The switch will replace Solana’s existing validator voting system, remove vote transactions from blocks and could sharply change headline transaction counts even if user activity stays flat.

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Bitcoin climbs toward $84,000 after Fed’s Williams sees no rate hikes in 2027

ZEC led a broad bounce among major tokens, and Korean chipmakers snapped a five-day losing streak ahead of Thursday’s U.S. inflation data.

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