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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Finance

DappRadar Shuts Down, Citing ‘Financially Unsustainable’ Market

Launched in 2018, the platform had grown into one of the most prominent analytics hubs for on-chain activity.

Civil is shutting down after three years. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Policy

Judge Should Not Acquit Tornado Cash Dev Roman Storm, Prosecutors Argue

The DOJ filed its own post-trial motion last week, pushing back against Storm's motion for acquittal.

Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm outside the Manhattan courthouse where he is being tried for criminal money laundering (CoinDesk/Cheyenne Ligon)

Markets

Bitcoin Approaches 'Death Cross' as Market Tests Major Historical Pattern

Despite its bearish reputation, every death cross in the current cycle has marked a major local bottom.

BTC: Technical Pricing Models (Glassnode)

Markets

Harvard Endowment Takes Rare Leap Into Bitcoin With $443M Bet on BlackRock's IBIT


The investment, which accounts for 20% of Harvard's reported U.S.-listed public equity holdings, is notable.

Harvard logo (Xiangkun ZHU/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Finance

Alibaba to Use JPMorgan’s Blockchain for Tokenized Dollar and Euro Payments: CNBC

The technology aims to expedite transactions and eliminate intermediaries, enabling the direct transfer of digital currencies over a blockchain-based system.

JPMorgan (Modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

State of Crypto: What's In the New Crypto Market Structure Draft?

The Senate Agriculture Committee released a draft text for its version of market structure legislation.

U.S. Congress (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Market Slips Into ‘Extreme Fear’ After Bitcoin Fails to Hold $100,000 Level

The sell-off is attributed to a combination of factors, including profit-taking, institutional outflows, macro uncertainty, and low liquidity.

(Midjourney/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Tether Eyes $1B Investment in German Robotics Startup Neura: FT

Neura aims to produce 5 million robots by 2030 and has already booked €1 billion in orders.

Tether

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Markets

Crypto Liquidity Still Hollow After October Crash, Risking Sharp Price Swings

Despite calmer prices after October’s brutal leverage wipeout, bitcoin and ether market depth remains structurally thin, creating a more fragile trading environment.

Liquidity void in crypto persists (Simon Hurry/Unsplash)

Finance

BlackRock’s $2.5B Tokenized Fund Gets Listed as Collateral on Binance, Expands to BNB Chain

The $2.5 billion BUIDL fund, tokenized by Securitize, deepens its utility for institutional traders and expands to a new blockchain.

Binance (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)