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

Ether Pushes Past $2K as Ripple's Partial Win Against SEC Invigorates Market

Several layer-1 tokens soared after the Ripple ruling ignited hopes of a favorable ruling in other SEC cases against crypto firms.

Ether Prices (CoinDesk)

Finance

Tim Draper-Backed Fund Joins $5M Series A for LunarCrush

The social media analytics platform is expanding from a digital asset trading focus to allow users to search for any topic.

Image of LunarCrush social media feeds.

Markets

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)

Markets

Bitcoin Liquidations Drop to Lowest Since April, Indicating Waning Interest Among Futures Traders

Trading volumes slumped 55% on Tuesday compared to Monday in a sudden market shift, data shows.

(Mohan Murugesan/Unsplash)

Finance

MicroStrategy Only Needs to Liquidate Bitcoin in Extreme Price Corrections: Bernstein

A more robust bitcoin price means the company has a stronger balance sheet, a higher share price and easier debt repayment without the need to sell down its cryptocurrency holdings, the report said.

Michael Saylor (Anna Baydakova/CoinDesk)

Markets

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)

Policy

Celsius Sues StakeHound for Failing to Return $150M Worth of Tokens

StakeHound has 55,000 ether, 50 million MATIC, and 66,000 DOT that Celsius wants back.

Alex Mashinsky (CoinDesk)

Markets

Cathie Wood's ARK Sells $12M Coinbase Shares as COIN Nears Yearly High

ARK currently owns 11.03 million shares of Coinbase.

Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Ark Invest (Marco Bello/Getty Images)

Policy

EU’s Metaverse Vision Focuses on Standards, Governance and Funding

The EU isn’t proposing new laws but could spend hundreds of millions on research into virtual worlds.

The EU Data Act has raised smart contract fears (Pixabay)

Finance

Index Coop Aims to Improve Limitations of Protocol, On-Chain Structured Products

The infrastructure limitations of this sector include a lack of cross-chain asset support, expense in maintaining products due to high issuance costs and difficulty rebalancing on-chain products due to slippage.

Index (Maksym Kaharlytskyi/Unsplash)