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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Germany Dumping $2.8B Bitcoin Is 'Market Intervention,' Despite Murky Legal Justifications

One expert told CoinDesk the law does not provide for an obligation, but merely an opportunity to sell, while another alleged that “How they handled this sell-off moved the market and is intervention in public markets.”

(Hiroshi Higuchi/Getty Images)

Политика

Vitalik Buterin, as Other Crypto Leaders Line Up Behind Trump, Argues Against Picking Candidates Just Because They Like Crypto

The comments from Buterin, widely viewed as Ethereum's intellectual leader, stand in stark contrast to the strongly pro-Trump rhetoric from other well-known crypto figures.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin speaks at the EthCC conference on Wednesday in Brussels (Margaux Nijkerk)

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Trump Says He’ll Release Fourth NFT Collection: 'The People Want Me to Do Another One'

Trump’s presidential campaign has raised about $3 million in crypto, mostly bitcoin and ether.

Former President Donald Trump (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Финансы

Sam Altman's Worldcoin Surges 15% as Investor and Team Lockup Extended

WLD is up by more than 26% over the past 24-hours.

Worldcoin's iris-scanning technology is being questioned by regulators (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Meme Coins Outperform BTC, ETH and SOL as Traders Rotate Holdings

The $53 billion meme coin sector rose by more than 12% on Tuesday with the likes of pepe (PEPE) and dogwifhat (WIF) surging by 22% and 25% respectively, data from CoinGecko shows.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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SEC Tells ETH ETF Issuers Fund Can Start Trading Next Tuesday: Sources

Issuers have been asked to submit their final S-1 documents by Wednesday.

Ether spot ETFs to see same sources of demand as bitcoin versions but on lower scale: Bernstein. (Rob Mitchell/CoinDesk)

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Trump's Odds of Victory Hit All-Time High on Polymarket After Shooting

The former president, who was injured at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, now has a 70% chance of retaking the White House, according to traders on the crypto-based prediction market. Trump-themed Polifi tokens and crypto broadly also rose.

BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA - JULY 13: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he is rushed offstage by U.S. Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bullet during a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger said the shooter is dead after injuring former U.S. President Donald Trump, killing one audience member and injuring another in the shooting. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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Iggy Azalea's MOTHER Token Jumps Over 50% After Partnering With DWF Labs

MOTHER jumped as much 50% after the announcement to over 4 cents.

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - JUNE 10: Iggy Azalea performs at the Tel Aviv Pride Parade on June 10, 2022 in Jerusalem, Israel. The annual Pride Parade draws thousands of people from around the world and across Israel. According to a 2019 report it is the largest pride parade on the continent of Asia. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld /Getty Images)

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Bitcoin Miner Ionic Digital Hires CFO to Shepherd IPO

The company, which bought all of bankrupt lender Celsius' mining assets, said new CFO John Penver has over 18 years of data center technology and infrastructure experience.

Ionic's CEO Matt Prusak (Ionic Digital)

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Lionel Messi Promotes Obscure Meme Coin on Instagram, Leading to 350% Surge

The price of WATER jumped from $0.00032 to $0.00146 in the two hours following Messi's post, drawing criticism from the crypto community.

Lionel Messi's Jersey (dwlly/Unsplash)