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

A Startup Is Looking to Pay 30% Yield by Tokenizing AI Infrastructure

Compute Labs’ tokens offer fractionalized ownership of industrial-grade NVIDIA H200 GPUs, which would retail at around $30,000 for a single unit.

computer processors (Shutterstock)

Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: GENIUS Act Positions ETH at the Center of Tokenized Finance, Says Wall Street Veteran

"Every action is powered by ether," Etherealize's founder, Vivek Raman, argues as institutional adoption of Ethereum accelerates amid the stablecoin boom.

Wall Street street sign

Finance

Coinbase Seeks SEC Approval to Offer Tokenized Stock Trading

The move could pit the crypto exchange against Robinhood and Schwab.

Paul Grewal, chief legal officer of Coinbase (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Heads Lower as Trump Threatens to Assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader

The U.S. President has called for Iran's unconditional surrender.

U.S. President Donald Trump (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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AgriFORCE Launches Gas-Powered Bitcoin Mining Site in Alberta, Plans Expansion to 1 EH/s

AgriFORCE brings stranded natural gas online for crypto mining and compute with its new Alberta site.

Alberta (Credit: Unsplash, Kym MacKinnon)

Markets

BNB Price Falls Below Technical Support as Market Awaits FOMC Clues Amid Geopolitical Tension

The drop comes amid growing unease surrounding the conflict between Iran and Israel and Trump's convening of the National Security Council.

BNB price chart (CoinDesk Data)

Markets

Filecoin Plunges 6% On Heavy Volume, Breaks Technical Support at $2.52 Level

The token has found support at the $2.41-$2.42 range, forming a potential consolidation zone after the sharp decline.

Filecoin sell off chart

Markets

ADA Slides to $0.615 as Sell-Off Deepens and Support Faces Pressure

ADA fell below $0.620 Monday, posting a 5.35% daily loss as bearish momentum continued, though some patterns hint at potential base formation near key support.

Line chart showing ADA’s decline from $0.657 to below $0.620, with consolidation near the bottom of the range by midafternoon.

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Markets

Glassnode on ETH Whales: ‘This Scale of Buying Hasn’t Been Seen Since 2017’

ETH slipped 3.7% Tuesday to $2,555 but held key support amid persistent whale accumulation and a major spike in on-chain buying activity over the past week.

Line chart showing Ethereum’s price falling from $2,673 to below $2,560, with steep declines in late trading and modest recovery afterward.

Markets

SOL Drops Below $150 After Sell-Off Despite Growing Institutional Adoption Narrative

SOL fell to $149.46 Tuesday after a late-evening sell-off erased earlier gains, though some institutional analysts continue to frame it as a long-term ETH rival.

Line chart showing Solana falling from above $158 to below $150, with steep declines around midnight UTC and lighter volume during the recovery phase.