Omkar Godbole

Co-Managing Editor, Markets Team

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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Latest from Omkar Godbole

BOJ Starts Central Bank Digital Currency Experiments

The year-long Phase 1 will conduct experiments on basic functions of a CBDC.

Apr 5, 2021

Bank of Japan, Tokyo

Binance's Crypto Derivatives Platform Sees Record Open Interest of $10B

Binance's crypto derivatives platform sees record open interest as retail participation grows.

Apr 3, 2021

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao

Bitcoin Decoupled From Stocks in Q1 as Institutional Demand Strengthened: CoinDesk Research

Bitcoin decoupled from stocks and gold but remains inversely correlated to the U.S. dollar.

Apr 2, 2021

Bitcoin's correlation with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index of U.S. stocks has declined to zero.

Ether Price Jumps to All-Time High Near $2,100

Ether is rallying in the wake of Visa's decision to facilitate crypto-based settlements via the Ethereum blockchain.

Apr 2, 2021

Ethereum

DOGE Jumps After Tesla's Musk Promises 'Literal' Moonshot

Elon Musk's tweets keep sending dogecoin into the stratosphere, now with a market capitalization over $8 billion.

Apr 1, 2021

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Filecoin Surges 42%, Replaces Litecoin as 9th Largest Digital Asset

Institutional demand propels filecoin ahead of litecoin.

Apr 1, 2021

Filecoin creator Juan Benet

Options Market Shows Call Bias as Bitcoin Prepares for New Price High

Bitcoin's call options are drawing higher value than puts.

Apr 1, 2021

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Bitcoin Has Best Start to Year Since 2013 as Gold Disappoints

Bitcoin outshines gold as inflation expectations rise.

Mar 31, 2021

Despite the memories of recent market choppiness, bitcoin in March gained for the sixth straight month.

'Bull Flag' Call for $70K Bitcoin Draws Skepticism From Rival Analysts

There's a debate raging among bitcoin technical analysts over whether the "bull flag" chart pattern even has a flagpole.

Mar 31, 2021

A "bull flag" or wishful thinking? Analysts are raising a yellow flag about the latest call for $70,000 bitcoin.

Crypto Options Giant Deribit Launches Bitcoin Volatility Index

The exchange is planning to roll out futures tied to the index soon. It's not a "fear gauge" but an "action gauge."

Mar 31, 2021

The cryptocurrency options exchange Deribit has a new volatility index.

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