Shaurya Malwa

Analyst CryptoSlate

Post-mining his first bitcoin in 2012, there was no looking back for Shaurya Malwa. An economics graduate from the University of Wolverhampton, he breathes financial markets and decentralized ideologies. When not writing, Shaurya works on his culinary skills, trades the big three cryptocurrencies, and surfs airplane blogs.

Author Stats

Total Articles 1,327

Since Jul 2018

Last Active Dec 3, 2021

Primary Beat Adoption

Expertise

Adoption Bitcoin Technology Ethereum

Nervos enters DeFi arena with ‘Yokaiswap,’ $70 million locked up on first day

3 min read Dec 3, 2021

Shaurya Malwa Recent Articles

Trading

This upcoming 45 billion token airdrop is one of the reasons why retail is pumping XRP

XRP has surged over 133% in the past week, and over 150% in the past month alone. But what’s driving up interest in the…

3 min read Nov 25, 2020

Privacy

US Fed: Privacy concerns in “Big Tech” are good for state-backed digital currencies

Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggest that privacy concerns at “Big Tech” firms like Facebook—which are developing their own digital…

3 min read Nov 24, 2020

Regulation

U.S. feds forget to seize $400k in Bitcoin forks

Crypto research firm Coinfirm has found that US authorities have left “substantial funds” left on various cryptocurrency wallets seized from criminals over the years,…

2 min read Nov 23, 2020

Adoption

“Bitcoin shortage”: PayPal bought 70% of all mined BTC last month

Crypto hedge fund Pantera Capital revealed global payments processor PayPal purchased over 70% of all Bitcoin mined in the past month, as per an…

3 min read Nov 23, 2020

Price Watch

Golem, one of Ethereum’s first ICOs, just announced its migration to ERC20

Golem announced its token migration earlier this week. The blockchain was one of the first ICOs on Ethereum, raising $8.6 million in 29 minutes…

3 min read Nov 21, 2020

Investments

Softbank CEO sold Bitcoin at a $130m loss after getting “too distracted”

Masayoshi Son’s not having the greatest of years in recent times. His storied $50 billion venture fund saw massive losses in 2019, with budding…

3 min read Nov 20, 2020

Scams

U.S. regulators crackdown on 15 Bitcoin and forex scammers in “sweeping action”

Texan regulators filed charges against 15 illicit investment platforms advertising false crypto, forex, and binary options investments, as per a Texas State Securities Board…

3 min read Nov 20, 2020

Adoption

Here’s everything you must know about Verizon’s new blockchain product that battles fake news

Verizon announced the launch of Full Transparency, a blockchain-based, open-source newsroom product last month as per a release shared with CryptoSlate. It is designed…

4 min read Nov 20, 2020

DeFi

Crypto.com unveils 5% rewards on Uniswap and Polkadot staking

Hong Kong-based Crypto.com unveiled its rewards program for Uniswap and Polkadot, two premier DeFi projects, in an announcement earlier this week. Staking and passive…

2 min read Nov 20, 2020

DeFi

Uniswap (UNI) liquidity falls 50% as incentives end, funds flow to Sushiswap (SUSHI)

Customer loyalty is a myth in the decentralized finance (DeFi), at least in current times. As liquidity incentives ended on decentralized exchange protocol Uniswap,…

3 min read Nov 19, 2020

Mining

Bitcoin (BTC) pump to $18k pushes miner revenues to pre-halving levels

The recent BTC run has borne good news for two important parts of the Bitcoin ecosystem — investors and miners. Data from on-chain tracking…