Omkar Godbole

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team based in Mumbai, holds a masters degree in Finance and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) member. Omkar previously worked at FXStreet, writing research on currency markets and as fundamental analyst at currency and commodities desk at Mumbai-based brokerage houses. Omkar holds small amounts of bitcoin, ether, BitTorrent, tron and dot.

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XRP Overtakes BNB to Become 4th Largest Cryptocurrency; Funding Rates Surge

XRP's market capitalisation surged by more than 60% to $41.44 billion in the past 24 hours.

Top cryptocurrencies by market value (CoinDesk Indices)

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First Mover Americas: Crypto AI Tokens Rally After Musk Unveils New Company

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for July 13, 2023.

SingularityNET (AGIX) 7-day price chart (Messari)

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Bitcoin Options Traders Shrug Off Post-CPI Choppy Price Action

The mood in the options market remains positive even as the cryptocurrency struggles to build upside momentum on the back of a bullish U.S. inflation report.

BTC's choppy price action. (CoinDesk/HIghCharts.com)

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Bitcoin Breakout Above $31K Elusive as Shorts Pile In

Bitcoin has failed twice this week to scale the $31,000 mark, with open interest in stablecoin-margined futures rising on both occasions.

Dice (955169/Pixabay)

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Aptos' APT Token Steady After $32M Token Unlock

The dollar value of the unlock amounted to 38% of the cryptocurrency's average 30-day trading volume and had potential to push prices lower, per one analyst.

More than 4.5 million ATP tokens were unclocked early Wednesday (TokenUnlocks)

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Crypto Traders Prepare for Bitcoin Volatility as Focus Shifts to U.S. CPI

Crypto traders anticipate a big move in bitcoin as Bollinger bands have tightened to the lowest level since early January.

(AhmadArdity/Pixabay)

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Marex Unveils Bitcoin, Ether-Linked Long Strategy With Dollar Index as Hedge

"The dollar index futures act a robust complement to the long-only portfolio from both a thematic and empirical perspective," Marex's Mark Arasaratnam said.

Dollar rate (geralt/Pixabay)

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Bitcoin NFTs Back in Spotlight as Ordinals Cross 350K Daily Inscriptions

Bitcoin Ordinals, a method of generating non-fungible tokens (NFTs) through a process called inscribing, debuted in January, bringing the NFT and smart contract narrative to the Bitcoin blockchain.

Ordinals inscriptions: new count (Glassnode)

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Bitcoin Steady Above $30K as China Factory Deflation Suggests End of Global Tightening Cycle Is Near

China is exporting deflation across the Western world. Ultimately this will be good for risk assets as it relates to the end of the global interest-rate increase cycle, one observer said.

Chart of the bitcoin price

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Bitcoin Retakes $30K, Asian Stocks Hit 5-Week Low Ahead of U.S. Jobs Report

The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the nonfarm payrolls report for June at 12:30 UTC.

Bitcoin price. (CoinDesk/Highcharts.com)