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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Bitcoin Could Hit as High as $124k Before Year-End, Says ARK Invest Analyst

"We are about 55% to 65% of the way" to the end of the bull market, ARK Invest Research Associate David Puell told CoinDesk.

Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images)

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Bitcoin to Overcome $100K Despite Pullback, Has Plenty of More Room Before Topping: CryptoQuant

The analytics firm said bitcoin could rally to at least $147,000 before topping if it repeats the pattern of previous cycles.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner IREN Surges on Renewed AI Interest, Possible BTC Dividend Payment

The shares rose 30% after executives discussed fiscal first-quarter earnings on a conference call.

An engineer works with bitcoin mining rigs (Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin Bull Market Is Far From Over, Galaxy Research Says

The world's largest cryptocurrency is expected to make a renewed attempt to breakthrough the $100K level in the near term, the report said.

Bitcoin may soon reach $100K, says Galaxy Research. (Unsplah)

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Bitcoin Buying Plans Are Supercharging Stocks. Is This a Michael Saylor Redux — or Another 'Long Island Iced Tea' Fad?

A flurry of copycats are trying capture MicroStrategy's magic. Will it work?

MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor (Jason Koerner/Getty Images for Bitcoin Magazine)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Archax to Offer Tokenized Money Market Funds from State Street, Fidelity International and LGIM

The tokenized assets will initially be made available on Hedera Hashgraph, XRPL and Arbitrum.

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Markets

Ethena Sees $1B Inflows as Crypto Rally Brings Back Double-Digit Yields

The protocol's rejuvenation is driven by elevated perpetual funding rates, with more catalysts ahead for growth.

U.S. dollar (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Makes New All-Time High of $94,000 as ETF Options Go Live

Spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds options are making solid volume on their first day.

Bitcoin price on Nov. 19 (CoinDesk)

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This OG Bitcoin Investor Just Turned $120 Into $178M

The user held BTC from when it was worth $0.06 all the way up to $90,000.

Token unlocks are usually bearish events, increasing a token's supply.(FLY:D/Unsplash)

Finance

Ex-Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald's Investment Firm Buys Four Validators, Including Solana Network's, for Nearly $18M

The firm will buy validators for SOL, SUI, MONAD and ARCH networks.

Leah Wald, President and CEO of SOL Strategies. (SOL Strategies)