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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Finanças

Pump.fun Hits Back at Report That Claimed 98% of Memecoins on the Platform Are Fraudulent

Seven millions tokens have been launched in pump.fun since its inception in 2024.

(Trang Nguyen/Unsplash)

Mercados

Coinbase Earnings Pain Likely as Retail Activity Slumps, Wall Street Analysts Warn

Barclays, JPMorgan, Compass Point and Oppenheimer all cut their first-quarter forecasts last month, citing weaker crypto trading.

Coinbase (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Tecnologia

Why One of Uniswap DAO’s Most Outspoken Members Just Walked Away in Frustration

The situation highlights the struggle of balancing DeFi protocol interests.

Uniswap DAO is down a delegate this week. (Getty Images)

Mercados

SHIB Plunges 7.4% in One Week, but Market Sentiment Remains Cautiously Optimistic

Institutional investors accumulate despite volatility, with 109 new SHIB millionaire wallets emerging in April.

SHIB-USD 1-hour price chart showing a 0.45% decline to 0.041285 on May 5, 2025, with volume spikes around 19:00 GMT

Publicidade

Política

Leading House Dem Will Block Crypto Market Structure Bill Hearing

Rep. Maxine Waters said she is concerned about U.S. President Donald Trump's increasing crypto ties.

Rep. Maxine Waters (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Mercados

Bitcoin Traders’ Favorite Lottery Ticket for the First Half of the Year — The $300K BTC Call

"There are always folks that want the hyperinflation hedge," one observer said, explaining the solid open interest build up in the $300K call option expiring on June 26.

CoinDesk

Mercados

Chart of the Week: '10x Money Multiplier' for Bitcoin Could Take Wall Street by Storm

Publicly traded firms relentlessly buying bitcoin for their balance sheet could result in 'significant buy pressure.'

Could BTC price rise 44% from firms buying in the open market? (Getty Images)

Mercados

Gold-Backed Crypto Minting Volume Hits 3-Year High as Central Bank Buying Drops

A surge in demand, particularly from ETFs, pushed the average quarterly gold price to a record high.

Stacked gold bars (Scottsdale Mint/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Publicidade

Mercados

A Tiny Company Wants to Buy $20M TRUMP Token to Change U.S.-Mexico Trade Deals

Freight Technologies, which also invested in FET tokens, says it's aiming to strengthen its technology and geopolitical positioning.

President Donald Trump (Getty Images)

Política

Arizona Governor Calls Crypto an ‘Untested Investment,’ Vetoes Bitcoin Reserve Bill

The bill, Senate Bill 1025, aimed to create a digital assets reserve managed by the state.

Documents inside of a box (vuk burgic/Unsplash)