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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Finanzas

Mob boss John Gotti’s grandson is headed to prison for a $1.1 million Covid fraud and crypto scheme

The mob boss’ grandson defrauded the U.S. government’s Covid-19 relief system out of $1.1 million and invested at least half of it to invest in crypto businesses.

Mob boss John Gotti (Getty Images)

Finanzas

Crypto's massive exploit may force big banks to rethink their blockchain plans, Jefferies warns

The $293 million Kelp DAO exploit has exposed critical infrastructure risks, leading Jefferies to suggest that traditional financial firms may pause their blockchain initiatives to prioritize security.

Wall Street (Shutterstock)

Finanzas

DoorDash is bringing stablecoin payments to masses with Stripe-backed blockchain

The delivery service is working with the Stripe-led blockchain firm Tempo to bring stablecoin payouts to its global marketplace, replacing fragmented regional rails.

DoorDash (Marques Thomas/Unsplash)

Tecnología

Kelp DAO claims LayerZero’s 'default' settings are what actually caused the massive $290 million disaster

The liquid restaking protocol said the compromised verifier was LayerZero's own infrastructure, and the setup it was faulted for running was LayerZero's onboarding default.

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Tecnología

Hack at Vercel sends crypto developers scrambling to lock down API keys

Breach tied to compromised AI tool may have exposed credentials used by app frontends, the user-facing layer that connects web3 wallets and trading interfaces to backend services.

Hacker (Getty Images/Seksan Mongkhonkhamsao)

Regulación

Previewing Consensus' Policy Summit: State of Crypto

Every year policy discussions get more important, and this year's even more so.

Consensus is coming soon to a Miami near you. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nuevas análisis

'DeFi is dead': crypto community scrambles after this year's biggest hack exposes contagion risk

Developers and traders warn of structural risks as a cross-chain exploit spreads fear and prompts billions to flee DeFi platforms.

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Mercados

Why Michael Saylor's Strategy decided to make STRC's dividend bi-monthly

Strategy aim to reduce volatility, enable consistent bitcoin buying, and create the only bi-monthly paying preferred shares in the market.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk Television)

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Finanzas

AI is increasingly eating into VC fundings and here is how crypto firms are adapting

AI companies raised $242 billion (80% of global venture funding) in early 2026, with Gartner projecting total AI spending will reach $2.52 trillion this year.

(Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

Finanzas

Binance and Bitget to probe RAVE’s 4,500% token surge as claims of insider-orchestrated rally grow

Nearly 90% of RAVE's supply was concentrated in just three wallets, and millions of tokens were transferred to exchanges before the price surge.

People with a laptop in front of a whiteboard (Kaleidico/Unsplash)