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.

Omkar Godbole

Latest from Omkar Godbole


Markets

Short-Term BTC Holders Quit, CME Open Interest Slid by Record During Monday's Price Drop

As observed by many metrics, Monday's capitulation in bitcoin looks like a textbook local bottom.

Chart of one-day change in CME bitcoin open interest. (Glassnode)

Markets

Wintermute Eases Trading of the 'U.S. National Digital Asset Stockpile' Narrative

Wintermute has launched a CFD tied to the GMUSA index, providing an easier way for traders to bet on the U.S. strategic crypto reserve.

Wintermute Asia debuts CFD tied to the GMUSA index. (StuBaileyPhoto/Pixabay)

Markets

Ripple's CEO Brad Garlinghouse Bats for Diversified U.S. Crypto Reserve

Ripple's CEO calls for a U.S. strategic bitcoin reserve that includes more than one token.

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

Markets

Bitcoin Funding Rates Flip Negative as Nasdaq Futures Tank 700 Points

The renewed bearish flip in funding rates comes amid risk-off in Wall Street's tech-heavy Nasdaq index.

Annualized funding rates for BTC and other major coins. (Velo Data)

Markets

Solana, Dogecoin, XRP Plunge 10% as Bloody Start to Week Sees $770M Long Liquidations

Traders of BTC-tracked products lost $238 million in the past 24 hours, majorly in early European and Asian afternoon hours.

A brown bear waving. (Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin May Be 'Double Topping' for a Price Slide to $75K

BTC looks to be forming a double top bearish reversal pattern on the daily chart.

BTC has recently put in twin peaks at around $108K. (lin2015/Pixabay)

Markets

ANALYSIS: AI Tokens Are the Real Losers of the DeepSeek Revolution

Artificial Intelligence tokens have a market cap in the billions, and pools of capital startups would be jealous of. But they got beat by a lean, efficient team.

(Paola Ocaranza/Unsplash)

Markets

TRUMP Memecoin Draws Eyes, But Leaves Crypto Market Without Fresh Investment: Web3 Expert

The hot ball of money moved around, leaving the total crypto market cap listless, Mirai Labs' Garrison Yang told CoinDesk.

Trump's BTC reserve comprises of coins seized in enforcement actions. (hoekstrarogier/Pixabay)