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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Markets

Bitwise’s Matt Hougan revisits $1 million bitcoin — analysts agree but debate his timeline

Hougan says bitcoin could reach that milestone if it captures a larger share of the global store-of-value market, though analysts say it would likely take years of institutional adoption and macro shifts.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan (Suzanne Cordiero/CoinDesk/Shutterstock)

Tech

Visa is ready for AI agents. So is Coinbase. They're building very different internets

The next trillion-dollar payments network won't have a checkout page. No card number, no CVV, no human at the keyboard. Just machines paying machines, thousands of times a second, for fractions of a cent.

Agentic commerce (Xavi Torrent/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin sold off first when the U.S.-Iran war began. Two weeks later, it's outperforming nearly everything

Each escalation in the Iran conflict has been larger than the last, but each bitcoin drawdown has been getting smaller.

Jet fighters arranged on an aircraft carrier

Finance

Crypto’s multimillion F1 sponsorship under fire as Middle East war hits region's biggest events

Other major business events across the UAE, such as Middle East Energy Dubai and the Dubai International Boat Show, have also been postponed or delayed.

War in the Middle East is forcing F1 to cancel races and crushing crypto’s biggest events (Getty Images)

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Finance

Ethereum Foundation sells 5,000 ether to Tom Lee's BitMine in $10.2 million deal

The funds will support the EF's core operations, including protocol R&D and ecosystem grants, as part of a treasury strategy to balance ETH and fiat-like assets.

Thomas Lee, chairman of BitMine and CIO of Fundstrat, on the main stage during Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (David Paul Morris/Consensus)

Finance

Boris Johnson calling Bitcoin a ‘Ponzi’ draws rebuttal from Michael Saylor and others

The cryptocurrency community pushed back, with Michael Saylor saying Bitcoin has no issuer, promoter, or guaranteed return, and is instead driven by code and market demand.

Michae Saylor (Jason Koerner/Getty Images)

Finance

Brazil industry giants representing 850 companies decry stablecoin tax threat

They argue the tax would be illegal, violating Brazil's Constitution and Virtual Assets Law, as stablecoins are not considered fiat currency.

Brazil's flag (Rafaela Biazi/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Circle overtakes BlackRock in tokenized Treasuries as market hits record $11 billion

Circle’s USYC tokenized U.S. Treasury fund has grown to $2.2 billion, surpassing BlackRock’s BUIDL fund as investors increasingly seek onchain yield and collateral.

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Circle Speaks at Hong Kong Fintech Week in 2024 (HK Fintech Week)

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Markets

Crypto investor turns $50 million into $36,000 in one botched move

Aave founder Stani Kulechov said the interface displayed multiple slippage warnings, which the user manually accepted on a mobile device.

Credit: Shutterstock/Rainer_81

Policy

Donald Trump to hold another Mar-a-Lago lunch for his token holders

The U.S. President will be the keynote speaker at a "gala luncheon" for the top 297 holders of the $TRUMP token.

Donald Trump (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)