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

Coinbase wants to be Canada’s ‘everything exchange,’ but says clearer rules are needed first

Coinbase Canada's new CEO, Eric Richmond, says permanent rules, rather than temporary exemptions, are needed as the company pushes to expand into derivatives, tokenized assets and decentralized finance.

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Markets

Crypto is rewriting how Wall Street traders spend their weekends

Around-the-clock crypto markets are forcing Wall Street to reevaluate one of its oldest assumptions: that weekends are for waiting.

Our idea of the trading floor is becoming outdated (Getty Images/Charles O'Rear)

Finance

Russia’s largest bank Sberbank plans crypto trading infrastructure by December

New regulations for crypto trading, custody, and settlement in Russia take effect Sept. 1, with requirements for licensed intermediaries applying from July 2027.

Residents wait in line at an ATM of Russian bank Sberbank. (Getty Images)

Finance

North Korea arrests hackers accused of laundering stolen funds from country's bank via crypto

The group allegedly breached Central Bank systems, converted crypto to cash via Chinese brokers, and used small transfers to evade detection.

Lazarus Group, a cybercrime organization run by the North Korean government, may have links to this week's exploit of Euler Finance. (Micha Brandli/Unsplash)

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Finance

Robinhood Chain's real-world assets jump fivefold as tokenized stocks start trading in bigger size

The chain built to put equities onchain has tripled in size since mid-July, and a dozen tokenized stocks are now each clearing $500,000 a day. Real-world assets are growing fast, though memecoins and stablecoins still dominate the chain.

Vlad Tenev, Chairman & CEO of Robinhood. (Michael Santiago/Getty Images)

Tech

Claude's Fable 5 just solved an 87-year-old math problem, and it matters for bitcoin

Claude Fable 5 disproved the Jacobian conjecture over the weekend, landing days after the capabilities of China's Kimi AI became the biggest force moving bitcoin markets.

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Tech

Bitcoin's biggest advocate, Michael Saylor, says new plan to clean up the blockchain is 'a bad idea'

Michael Saylor argues that a new proposal, BIP-110, to temporarily block "spam" data from the Bitcoin blockchain would undermine the network's neutrality and create a dangerous precedent for censorship.

Strategy's Michael Saylor (Jason Koerner/Getty Images)

Tech

Bitcoin’s quantum problem gets a recovery tool, but not for Satoshi’s 1.1 million coins

Project Eleven says it has funded a proof that lets a wallet's own key-derivation path stand in as ownership after quantum computers can forge its signatures. It runs in 243 milliseconds on a laptop.

A statue of Satoshi Nakamoto, a presumed pseudonym used by the inventor of Bitcoin, is displayed in Graphisoft Park on September 22, 2021 in Budapest, Hungary. The statue's creators, Reka Gergely and Tamas Gilly, used anonymized facial features, as Nakamoto's true identify remains unconfirmed. (Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images)

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Finance

Trump targets Brazil's payments system while dollar stablecoins are quietly overtaking country's payments

Washington views Brazil’s promotion of non-dollar payment channels, including Pix and the growth of stablecoins, as a potential threat to dollar-based trade, even as dollar-linked stablecoins account for about 90% of Brazil's crypto transactions.

Donald Trump points at the audience during a press conference at the White House (Getty Images)

Web3

Here is why a massive $1.6 billion in crypto liquidity is sitting idle and wasting away

About $542 million weekly sat outside active trading ranges, meaning this capital earned zero fees and provided no market depth.

Most of DeFi's "tracked" liquidity remains under utilised. (Dune/1inch)