Aoyon Ashraf

Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's Global Head of News and is responsible for all of the editorial content and strategies. He spent almost a decade at Bloomberg covering equities, commodities and tech. Prior to that, he spent several years on the sellside, financing small-cap companies. Aoyon graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in mining engineering. He holds ETH, BTC, and SOL that are above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000. He also holds LINK, ATOM and some other altcoins that are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Markets

Bitcoin's volatility has plunged, but extreme price swings are more frequent than in 2018

CoinDesk analysis finds 10 unusually large trading days in 2026, raising questions about how investors measure risk in an increasingly institutional crypto market.

BTC's 3-sigma days per year since 2016. (CoinDesk, TradingView)

Finance

Robinhood Chain considers technology that gives paying traders priority

Arbitrum recently replaced its Timeboost transaction-ordering system with a new model called Priority Gas Auctions.

Baiju Bhatt (right) and Vlad Tenev, founders of Robinhood (Getty Images/Spencer Platt)

Finance

Crypto news site Cointelegraph seeks buyer after web traffic plunges

The amount of money the crypto media firm has been shopping itself for was not revealed.

For sale ticket on a car windshield.

Finance

Wells Fargo in talks with Kraken parent Payward for crypto trading liquidity

The discussions would see Payward supply liquidity for crypto trading as major banks deepen their involvement in digital assets.

Wells Fargo logo. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

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Finance

Peter Thiel-backed Founders Fund leads a $5 million token buy in crypto collateral protocol Anvil

Pantera Capital and Bullish also participated in the ANVL purchase as Anvil rolls out software designed to make its collateral protocol easier for businesses to integrate.

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Markets

More than 60 U.S. stocks including Nvidia and Tesla are headed onchain. Here’s how it works

The planned 24/7 venue will offer dozens of tokenized U.S. stocks, with trades conducted against stablecoins through blockchain-based liquidity pools rather than a traditional order book.

The SpaceX company logo displayed outside the Nasdaq Marketsite the company's IPO.

Finance

The Clarity Act stalled. Bankers aren’t hitting the brakes yet on crypto dealmaking

Crypto M&A has hit record levels, but the Clarity Act’s Senate setback leaves dealmakers weighing how much regulatory uncertainty still matters.

U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) has championed the Clarity Act (Getty Images/Anna Moneymaker)

Finance

BlackRock offers a glimpse of how tokenization may change your investment portfolio

Tokenization is not just about putting individual stocks and funds onchain. The next step could be entire investment portfolios that can be traded, rebalanced and eventually managed in real-time.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

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Finance

BNY in talks with Kraken parent Payward over infrastructure partnership

The potential agreement could span digital assets, custody, trading, payments and other financial-market infrastructure.

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi.

Tech

Once a $2 billion Ethereum layer-2, Blast is shutting down after assets plunge 98%

Once home to more than $2 billion in crypto assets, Blast is shutting down as activity fades, costs rise, and bigger platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood build networks of their own.

(Tim Mossholder/Unsplashed)