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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Finance

Stablecoin Trading Startup Perena Tries Its Luck on Solana

Perena wants to be the "neutral layer" bringing liquidity to stablecoin issuers.

Anna Yuan, founder of Perena (Perena)

Markets

Bitcoin Is Leaving Exchanges in Batches of $10M or More: Van Straten

Institutional appetite for bitcoin has grown since Donald Trump won the U.S. election back in November.

BTC: Net Transfer Volume from/to Exchanges Breakdown by Size (Glassnode)

Markets

Assetera Enables Non-U.S. Investors to Trade Tokenized Nvidia, Coinbase, and S&P 500

The company has plans to include T-bills, money market funds and other instruments in future.

Assetera lists Backed's tokenized trackers. (Assetera)

Markets

LINK, AAVE Rocket 30% as Trump’s World Liberty Financial Buys $2M Tokens

The AAVE token purchases came as a proposal to float a World Liberty Financial instance on Aave met quorum.

Donald Trump (Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock)

Markets

Less than 1% of Microsoft Shareholders Voted for BTC Proposal

Prediction markets were skeptical that such a motion would pass.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (Microsoft)

Policy

Vancouver City Council Passes Pro-Bitcoin Motion Citing Fiat Challenges

The motion calls for the integration of bitcoin into Vancouver's financial strategies, including establishing a bitcoin reserve.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Markets

XRP Price Raises Bull Flag as $5 Call Options Heat Up: Godbole

XRP's price pattern is teasing a major bullish pattern alongside increased activity in the $5 strike call options on Deribit

XRP looks north. (StockSnap/Pixabay)

Finance

Trader Turns $2.5K Into $200K by Buying XRP With 500X Leverage

The position was dangerously close to liquidation before XRP moved to the upside.

Trade makes $200k on XRP trade (Rollbit)

Markets

Bitcoin Miners Cipher, CleanSpark and MARA Upgraded at JPMorgan

The bank updated estimates for a number of mining stocks in its coverage following third quarter results and recent gains in bitcoin and the hashrate.

Bitcoin miners (Shutterstock)

Markets

Floki Releases No-Fee Crypto Debit Card, Boosting Token Fundamentals

A physical card costs $33, while a virtual card costs just over $10. A 2% top-up fee applies when transferring tokens to the spending account associated with the card.

(Shutterstock)