Omkar Godbole

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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The Tether Put: Crypto Equivalent of Credit Default Swap?

Cryptocurrency market makers say they're fielding inquiries about how to bet on a falling price for the dollar-pegged stablecoin USDT.

Crypto traders are getting creative as they look for ways to bet against Tether.

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Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Hit $48K on Binance

The gap over the spot market price widened to more than $8,000.

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Axie Infinity Token Price Doubles in 2 Days

The Axie Infinity platform's revenue could exceed $1 billion this year, based on a Delphi Digital projection.

The popularity of Axie Infinity's marketplace is helping the price of the project's governance token, AXS.

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Bitcoin Options Market Sees Low Chance of Record High This Year

Options traders are pricing an 8% chance of the cryptocurrency rising to a new peak above $64,800 by Dec. 31.

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Bitcoin Looks North After Biggest Single-Day Rise in More Than a Month

"We are now short-term bullish to the topside against the $30,000 region triple bottom," a trading firm said.

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Bitcoin Futures Positions at 2-Month High as Traders Go Short

A combination of falling price and rising open interest is said to signal bearish conviction on the part of bitcoin futures traders.

Bitcoin futures traders might be betting on further price declines. Volatility could lie ahead.

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Bitcoin Retakes $31K as Traditional Markets See Risk Reset, BNY Mellon Makes Crypto Push

"Bitcoin is still just chopping around," one analyst said.

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Ether Falls Toward $1.7K as Bitcoin's Price Drop Weighs on Broader Market

One analyst said markets priced in Ethereum's impending EIP upgrade earlier this year.

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Bitcoin Drops as Investors Buy $22K and $20K Puts

Despite the pickup in demand for $22K puts, the options market remains biased bullish for the long term.

Bitcoin options traders have recently bet on the cryptocurrency ending 2021 at well below the current price.

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Bitcoin Network Sees Fourth Straight Downward Difficulty Adjustment

"The last four adjustments have been downward, and it now looks like the blockchain is back to normal," one analyst said.

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