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

Former Government Employees, Compliance Officers Rally for Detained Binance Executive

Tigran Gambaryan has been detained in Nigeria since February.

A group of former prosecutors and government employees rallied in front of the United Nations in support of Tigran Gambaryan, who's been detained in Nigeria since February. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Visa to Help Banks Issue Fiat-Backed Tokens on Ethereum Via New Tokenized Asset Platform

Visa's new Platform will enable the development of fiat-backed tokens powered by smart contracts.

visa, credit cards

Policy

Turkey Shelves Additional Plans to Tax Stocks and Crypto: Bloomberg

"We don’t have a stocks tax on our agenda," Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz told Bloomberg, including the country's plans that also affect crypto.

(Getty Images)

Policy

'We are Running Out of Time': U.S. House Democrat Urges Stablecoin Bill Compromise

Rep. Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, pitched a "grand bargain" to finish a stablecoin bill this year.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler took vigorous Republican criticism on his agency's crypto record at a hearing. (screen capture, House Financial Services Committee)

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Markets

Bitcoin Price and Hashrate Divergence May Set the Scene for a Potential Rally, Historical Data Shows

September's counter-seasonal price trend has already started to show signs of this divergence trend helping BTC.

(Giovanni Calia/Unsplash)

Finance

MicroStrategy Boosts Bitcoin Holdings With $458M Purchase, Upsized Convertible Note Offering to $1B

With the latest acquisition, the company now holds 252,220 bitcoin worth nearly $16 billion at current prices.

MicroStrategy executive chairman and co-founder Michael Saylor. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Investment Firm Deus X Capital Unveils DeFi Unit Which Will Start New Yield Generating Protocol

The company will debut its first protocol on the Solana blockchain in early 2025 with more than $100 million in total value locked.

Deus X CEO Tim Grant (Deus X)

Markets

Bitcoin's Breakout to New Highs Could Be Near, Past Market Cycles Suggest

The top crypto's current correction from the March peak resembles the action of 2016 and 2020 during the previous bull runs, which resolved in new all-time highs in the latter months of the year.

Bernstein forecasts new crypto cycle ( Hans Eiskonen/Unsplash)

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Finance

Police Arrest Two People Related to $243M Crypto Heist Targeting Genesis Creditor

More than $9 million has been frozen and $500,000 has been returned as a result of the investigation.

Two arrested in relation to crypto heist. (Zoshua Colah/Unsplash)

Finance

Trump Buys Burgers With Bitcoin at NYC Crypto Hangout PubKey

The former president and Republican nominee sent the transaction with the help of PubKey staff.

Trump sending bitcoin transaction at PubKey bar in NYC (Fox News/Modified by CoinDesk)