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

Binance Research Survey Shows 95% of Latin American Crypto Users Plan to Buy More in 2025

The survey found that investors entered the cryptocurrency space looking for significant returns and financial freedom.

A pair of hands resting on a keyboard with an iPad showing graphs and price quotes. (Kanchanara/Unsplash)

Markets

Ether Price Spikes Further on Reports of Bybit Starting to Buy ETH

The rise comes amid reports that Bybit has allocated 100 million USDT to a new wallet to buy the cryptocurrency.

Bybit lost roughly $1.5 billion in crypto to a theft Friday. (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Markets

SEC Drops OpenSea Investigation Easing Pressure on NFT Market

The regulator’s decision comes after Coinbase said the SEC will vote on a deal to abandon its enforcement case against it.

OpenSea logo on phone (Unsplash)

Markets

Arthur Hayes Floats the Idea of Rolling Back Ethereum Network to Negate $1.4B Bybit Hack, Drawing Community Ire

"I would support it because we already voted no on immutability in 2016," Hayes said on X, while Ethereum community strongly criticized it.

Arthur Hayes, CIO, Maelstrom, pictured at CfC St. Moritz 2025 (CfC St. Moritz)

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Markets

North Korean Hackers Were Behind Crypto's Largest 'Theft of All Time'

Lazarus Group was behind Bybit's $1.5 billion hack on Friday, Arkham Intelligence said, citing ZackXBT.

A hooded figure sits typing on a laptop in a darkened (Pixabay)

Finance

CZ Suggests Bybit Halt Withdrawals, Offers Help With $1.5B Hack

Bybit CEO has said that the exchange is solvent and withdrawals remain open.

Binance's former CEO, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao (Photos from Smorshedi/Wikimedia Commons and CoinDesk/Flickr, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. Senators Push for SEC to Rethink Crypto Staking in Exchange Funds

The Securities and Exchange Commission blocked staking when crypto exchange-traded funds were granted, but the lawmakers suggest the SEC may have been off-base.

Senator Cynthia Lummis (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Slump as Crypto Prices Dip on Report of Massive $1.5B Bybit Hack

The move happened as crypto exchange Bybit saw a sudden $1.5 billion worth of ETH outflow.

Bitcoin continued its downtrend of recent days. (Getty Images)

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Finance

Bybit Loses $1.5B in Hack but Can Cover Loss, CEO Confirms

A portion of staked ether is currently being liquidated on decentralized exchanges.

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou (Danny Nelson/ CoinDesk)

Markets

SEC Dropping Coinbase Case Could Boost Robinhood Stock, Tokens Alleged as Securities

More tokens could be added to exchanges, increasing their trading revenue. This might also open the floodgates to crypto firms' IPOs in the U.S.

Robinhood shares could benefit from SEC dropping Coinbase case. (Shutterstock)