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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Mercados

Crypto community fear of Iran choking oil supply and crashing markets may be overblown

A full closure of the strait is unlikely or impractical, some experts argue.

Shipping vessel at sea (Getty Images/Unsplash+/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tecnologia

Former Mt. Gox CEO proposed a rewrite of bitcoin's code to recover $5 billion in stolen funds. Gets quickly shutdown

Mark Karpelès submitted a pull request to Bitcoin Core that would redirect coins that have remained untouched since 2011 to a recovery address controlled by the MtGox trustee, reigniting the oldest debate in Bitcoin.

Mt Gox

Finanças

Citi and Morgan Stanley expand bitcoin and crypto custody, trading and tokenization efforts

As Citi plans to integrate Bitcoin into bank-grade custody and reporting frameworks, Morgan Stanley moves to bring crypto trading, lending exploration and tokenized products to mainstream wealth clients.

Citi building. (Photo: Declan Sun-Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tecnologia

Vitalik Buterin reveals his bold new plan to fix Ethereum’s scaling problem

The new post reflects Buterin’s renewed focus on scaling Ethereum’s base layer, after several years in which much of the ecosystem’s scaling strategy centered on layer-2 rollups.

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin at Techcrunch London 2015

Publicidade

Mercados

Bitcoin Miner MARA jumps 17% after striking a deal with Starwood to build AI data centers

The bitcoin miner inked a deal with investment firm Starwood to convert and expand select facilities to serve data center needs for AI.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel, at the Bitcoin conference in Miami (CoinDesk)

Análise de Notícias

Here is why Ethereum's bold new plan could make the blockchain giant high-speed 'internet of value' by 2029

Beneath the technical language of the 'Strawmap' is a far simpler story: Ethereum is trying to decide what kind of infrastructure it wants to be by the end of the decade.

Justin Drake (Getty Images)

Tecnologia

A former Solana exec is taking a page out of Wall Street playbook to make global crypto trades faster

The goal is to reduce Solana’s growing geographic concentration in Europe and introduce multicast functionality.

Stablecoin networks (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Mercados

Bitcoin snaps back near $69,000 but analysts warn the market may not be out of the woods yet

Crypto rebounds sharply from Tuesday's lows, yet traders question whether the move marks a lasting turn or another range-bound bounce.

Here's what bitcoin analysts are saying as price remains stuck during global rally

Publicidade

Finanças

Blockfills co-founder and CEO Nicholas Hammer has stepped down

The crypto lender suspended client deposits and withdrawals earlier this month due to recent market and financial conditions.

A man runs past a wall-painted exit pictogram toward a door.

Finanças

Crypto’s biggest exchange fights back against allegations of moving billions of Iran-linked money

The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Fortune all reported that investigators had been let go after identifying sanctions-violating transactions.

Binance CEO Richard Teng (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)