Parikshit Mishra

Parikshit Mishra is CoinDesk's Regional Head of Asia, managing the editorial team in the region. Before joining CoinDesk, he was the EMEA Editor at Acuris (Mergermarket), where he dealt with copies related to private equity and the startup ecosystem. He has also worked as an Senior Analyst for CRISIL, covering the European markets and global economies. His most notable tenure was with Reuters, where he worked as a correspondent and an editor for various teams. He does not have any crypto holdings.

Parikshit Mishra

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Markets

Stablecoin Expansion Continues as Bitcoin Rally Appears to Stall

The unabated expansion of stablecoin supply shows capital continues to flow into the crypto market, one observer noted.

USDT is the largest stablecoin by total supply. (DrawKit Illustrations/Unsplash)

Markets

Coinbase Offers Unique Exposure to the Long-Term Growth of Crypto: KBW

The broker raised its price target to $230 from $160 and maintained its market perform rating.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaks at a political rally hosted by Stand With Crypto. (screenshot from Coinbase video)

Markets

Ethena Labs' ENA Token Goes Live, Starts Trading at 64 Cents

Ethena has invited holders of USDe to claim their share of the airdrop of 750 million ENA tokens, equating to 5% of the total supply

Ethena's governance token ENA (Ethena Labs)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Deribit's Dubai-Based Unit Wins Conditional VASP License

Obtaining the full VARA spot and derivatives license is an important next step in our efforts to raise the overall quality & governance standards of our platform, exchange's new CEO Luuk Strijers told CoinDesk.

Skyscrapers in Dubai (Kent Tupas/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto Bulls See $400M Liquidations as Solana, Dogecoin Lead Slide in Majors

The CoinDesk 20 index, which tracks major tokens minus stablecoins, slumped just over 4.5%.

(Pezibear/Pixabay)

Policy

Singapore Enacts Licencing Requirements for Crypto Custody Services and Others

The change in scope also includes cross-border money transfers even when the money is not accepted or received in the city-state, and the facilitation of the transmission of crypto between accounts and exchanges,

(Larry Teo/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Drops Over 5% as Upbeat U.S. Factory Data Powers Dollar Index to Nearly 5-Month High

The U.S. factory activity unexpectedly expanded in March, data released Monday showed, sending the dollar index higher.

BTC's price chart

Policy

Sam Bankman-Fried Expresses Remorse for His Actions After Getting a 25-Year Prison Sentence

Last Thursday, while announcing the sentence U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Bankman-Fried never offered "a word of remorse" for his "terrible crimes."

Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Becomes More Volatile Than Ether as Halving Approaches

Bitcoin's annualized 30-day historical or realized volatility rose to nearly 60% late last week, surpassing ether's 30-day realized volatility by nearly 10 percentage points.

The spread between BTC and ETH's 30-day historical volatility indices widened to nearly 10 percentage points late last week. (Kaiko)

Markets

Crypto Market in Zen Mode as Bitcoin Remains Stable at $70K Ahead of Halving

All eyes are on the upcoming Bitcoin halving event.

zen, stone. (Shutterstock)