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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Finance

Man accuses wife of using CCTV cameras to steal $172 million bitcoin from his hardware wallet

The alleged theft of 2,323 bitcoin has triggered a High Court dispute testing how English property law applies to digital assets.

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Finance

OpenSea delays highly anticipated token launch, citing challenging crypto market conditions

The platform will end its rewards waves, offer optional fee refunds for certain traders and introduce 0% token trading fees for 60 days starting March 31 as it promotes its revamped marketplace.

OpenSea logo on phone (Unsplash)

Markets

T. Rowe Price is ready to put dogecoin, shiba inu among tokens in its new crypto ETF

The amended SEC filing details the assets, custody arrangements and potential staking plans for the actively managed crypto fund.

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Markets

Circle is up 100% in a month: Why this stablecoin stock is suddenly the hottest trade in crypto

The stablecoin issuer has rallied as analysts point to growing demand for USDC, a higher interest-rate environment and the rapid expansion of tokenized assets.

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Circle Speaks at Hong Kong Fintech Week in 2024 (HK Fintech Week)

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Bitcoin set for best week since September 2025 as correlation with tech stocks weakens

Bitcoin is outperforming equities and gold since the Middle East conflict began, as institutional inflows return while broader market sentiment remains cautious.

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Finance

Here is why Nasdaq and owner of NYSE are putting the $126 trillion equity market on blockchain

The race for the "everything exchange" makes Wall Street operators and crypto exchanges rivals and partners at the same time.

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Markets

Bitwise’s Matt Hougan revisits $1 million bitcoin — analysts agree but debate his timeline

Hougan says bitcoin could reach that milestone if it captures a larger share of the global store-of-value market, though analysts say it would likely take years of institutional adoption and macro shifts.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan (Suzanne Cordiero/CoinDesk/Shutterstock)

Tech

Visa is ready for AI agents. So is Coinbase. They're building very different internets

The next trillion-dollar payments network won't have a checkout page. No card number, no CVV, no human at the keyboard. Just machines paying machines, thousands of times a second, for fractions of a cent.

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Markets

Bitcoin sold off first when the U.S.-Iran war began. Two weeks later, it's outperforming nearly everything

Each escalation in the Iran conflict has been larger than the last, but each bitcoin drawdown has been getting smaller.

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Finance

Crypto’s multimillion F1 sponsorship under fire as Middle East war hits region's biggest events

Other major business events across the UAE, such as Middle East Energy Dubai and the Dubai International Boat Show, have also been postponed or delayed.

War in the Middle East is forcing F1 to cancel races and crushing crypto’s biggest events (Getty Images)