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 holds above $83,000 ahead of U.S. inflation data as altcoins lag

Bitcoin briefly reached $84,000 before easing back, while the CoinDesk 80 fell 0.6% since midnight as traders waited for U.S. inflation data.

Altcoins lag ahead of CPI (CoinDesk data)

Markets

S&P 500 options are the hottest bet on this Hyperliquid exchange

Hypercall, an exchange built on Hyperliquid, says most of its $640 million in volume since June has come from the index.

Trading desk. (TyliJura/Pixabay)

Tech

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.

Coinbase logo shown on a laptop screen.  (Shutterstock)

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Tech

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.

(Solana logo)

Markets

Bitcoin, ether slip and rebound as South Korean stocks slide on AI-related concerns

Investors are positioning ahead of today's bank earnings reports and Wednesday’s U.S. inflation data.

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Policy

UK court ruling boosts government’s chances of keeping $5 billion in seized bitcoin

The decision concerns 61,000 BTC seized by the Metropolitan Police in its investigation into Zhimin Qian, who pleaded guilty to defrauding thousands of people in China.

London High Court (Shutterstock)

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Markets

Bitcoin whale that sat through the March 2020 crash moves $378 million

A bitcoin whale that received coins days before the Covid crash and sat through it has moved millions on-chain.

ETH whale go bargain hunting. (Pexels/Pixabay)

Markets

Tokenized SanDisk bets saw more liquidations than XRP as Asia’s chip rout wipes out $800 million

About $800 million in leveraged positions were wiped out over 24 hours, 86% of them bullish. Chip-stock contracts on crypto exchanges took a chunk of the damage.

A chip stock outranked XRP in crypto’s liquidation map. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

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