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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SOL Now on Fidelity’s Retail Platform as Price Tests $195 While $188 Support Draws Focus

SOL lands on Fidelity's retail trading platform, Gemini launches the Solana edition of its credit card, and $188 emerges as the key support level to watch.

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ETH $10K Path Projected by Analyst as Ether Whales and Sharks Show ‘Signs of Confidence’

Analysts on X outlined five-digit targets for ether while Santiment said larger wallets have started adding again, framing a longer path higher if resistance gives way.

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Bitmine’s Tom Lee Sees Crypto Rally Into Year-End, Says S&P 500 Could Climb Another 10%

On CNBC, Tom Lee said Fed cuts and fading skepticism could lift U.S. stocks into year-end and that crypto may rebound as open interest resets and technicals improve.

Abstract green wireframe bull charging forward on a striped background. (CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Consolidates Above $111,000 as Breakout Awaits Fresh Catalyst

Bitcoin stayed range-bound into 08:00 UTC on OCt. 25 as volume spiked on a defense of support and sellers capped rallies near the top of the recent corridor.

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Crypto.com Applies for OCC National Trust Bank Charter to Expand U.S. Institutional Custody

Crypto.com applied to U.S. banking regulator OCC for a national trust bank charter, a step it says would expand federally supervised crypto custody for institutions.

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Ripple Prime Is the Fintech Firm’s One-Stop Institutional Trading and Financing Desk

Ripple Prime bundles trading, financing and clearing for institutions in one service, with risk controls, regulated custody and optional RLUSD collateral.

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple Labs (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Coinbase Upgraded at JPMorgan, Seeing Potential $34B Opportunity in Base Token

Analysts from the banking giant upgraded Coinbase to overweight from neutral and raised its price target on the stock to $404 from $342.

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Asia Morning Briefing: After CZ’s Pardon, Odds Rise for Sam Bankman-Fried’s Second Chance

It's still a long shot that FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried will be pardoned, but odds have spiked as Binance's Changpeng Zhao has its criminal record deleted.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Swiss Crypto Bank AMINA Taps Tokeny to Build Compliant 'Bridge' for Asset Tokenization

The partnership combines AMINA Bank’s Swiss-regulated custody with Tokeny’s blockchain infrastructure to ease tokenisation for financial institutions.

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Asia Morning Briefing: BTC, ETH Markets Steady as Traders Await CPI and China-U.S. De-Escalation Signs

Investors are in wait-and-see mode as the U.S. shutdown stalls data releases and China signals restraint on export controls, keeping markets range-bound ahead of Friday’s CPI report.

China. (Excellentcc/Pixabay/Modified by CoinDesk)