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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Regulación

Dubai Court Freezes $456M Linked to Justin Sun’s Bailout of TrueUSD Issuer Techteryx

Dubai’s Digital Economy Court said there was compelling evidence of a breach of trust and ordered a worldwide freeze to protect the assets.

100 dollar bill on table (Live Richer/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Mercados

Bitcoin Miners Must Own Power—or Die Trying Before Next Halving, MARA CEO Says

With block rewards set to plunge, only miners with energy control or AI pivots are likely to survive, Thiel argues.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel interview at Bitcoin conference in Miami (CoinDesk)

Finanzas

Ethereum Is ‘The Infrastructure’ for Wall Street, Says Former BlackRock Executive

Joseph Chalom is betting his next act on Ethereum, calling it the only chain institutions can trust to digitize finance.

Wall street signs, traffic light, New York City

Finanzas

Stellar Blockchain to Power Turbo Energy’s Tokenized Clean Energy Financing Initiative

The solar energy storage firm has tapped Stellar and Taurus to tokenize debt to finance hybrid solar projects, starting with a pilot in Spain.

Credit: Shutterstock

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BNB Slips Below $1,000 as Selling Pressure Pushes Token Into Bearish Territory

The token's decline continues a downward trend, with resistance at $1,000-$1,008 and support at $972.85.

"BNB Falls 2.4% to $975 Testing Key Support After Failing $1,000"

Finanzas

Mercado Bitcoin Commits EUR 50M to Portugal as It Pushes for European Expansion


The firm is expanding its services, including a new offering for high-net-worth clients, and has seen a shift in revenue streams.

Portugal's Praça do Comércio (Claudio Schwarz/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Mercados

Asia Morning Briefing: Hong Kong’s FinTech Week Belonged to Stablecoins, Not CBDCs

Once the future of digital money, central bank digital currencies barely featured this year as Hong Kong’s focus shifted to stablecoins and Brazil’s Drex pause showed how even early adopters are rethinking the model.

Hong Kong Harbor (Shutterstock/Modified by CoinDesk)

Mercados

Chainlink Bounces 5%, but Breakout Falters at $16.50 Resistance

Strong volume surge confirms the breakout above $16, though profit-taking near session highs introduces near-term uncertainty.

Chainlink Breaks $16 with 5.2% Surge Amid High Volume and Profit-Taking

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Privacy Coin Bid Continues as Zcash Rally Lifts ‘Dino’ Sector; Starknet’s STRK Rockets 40%

A move from cash or crypto to going fully private takes minutes on average in a less than five-step process, as CoinDesk Research said in its recent Zcash report.

Privacy (Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)

Mercados

Asia Morning Briefing: Bitcoin Rebounds as Polymarket Traders Bet U.S. Shutdown Will End Within Days

Prediction markets flipped overnight after Senate negotiators reached a bipartisan funding deal, sending crypto and risk assets higher on expectations that Washington will reopen before Veterans Day.

U.S. Congress (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)