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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Policy

Coinbase Granted Significant Advance in Court Clash With Gensler's SEC

A U.S. judge halted the case in which the exchange and SEC are duking it out over an enforcement matter, and will let Coinbase chase a higher-court appeal.

Coinbase CEO Brian Amstrong and SEC Chair Gary Gensler

Finance

AI Tokens Fail to Mirror 2024's Epic Surge Despite Bullish Nvidia Conference

AI tokens are struggling to perform despite bullish sentiment around AI stocks in traditional markets.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (BagoGames/Flickr)

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Markets

Bitcoin’s Potential 'Head and Shoulders' Pattern Points to a Sell-Off to $75K: Godbole

BTC’s latest price drop might be setting the stage for a major bearish reversal pattern.

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Markets

Bitcoin Returns Above $100K as Early 2025 Crypto Rebound Continues

Altcoin majors, including ether and solana, also rose sharply as U.S. markets opened on the first full week after holidays, with the broad-based CoinDesk 20 advancing 3.5% through the day.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on 01 06 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Avalon Labs Raises $10M Series A to Grow Bitcoin-Backed Stablecoin

The Series A funding round was led by Framework Ventures and included contributions from UXTO Management, Presto Labs and Kenetic Capital

Heading of Bitcoin Whitepaper

Markets

DeFi Protocol Usual's Surge Catapults Hashnote's Tokenized Treasury Over BlackRock's BUIDL

Hashnote's USYC is the primary backing asset of the red-hot decentralized finance protocol Usual, whose USD0 stablecoin zoomed over $1 billion market capitalization in a few months.

Digitally altered photo of a dollar bill (Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Buys $100M BTC Boosting Total Total Stash to $1B

The miner bought about 990 bitcoin for average price of around $101,710 each.

Mining rig. (Shutterstock)

Markets

Solana Smashes Record With 66.9M Daily Transactions as Pengu Token Debuts

PENGU's debut sparked a surge on the Solana blockchain, resulting in more transactions than the combined activity of other leading blockchains.

Solana's onchain metrics vs industry leaders. (Artemis)