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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Markets

Here's how market makers likely accelerated bitcoin's brutal crash to $60,000

The invisible hands of market makers likely accelerated bitcoin's recent crash.

(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin slips below $70,000 after erasing post-election gains during 'sell at any price' rout

Crypto sentiment was hit as Gemini plans to close operations in several regions and cut staff, while spot bitcoin ETF flows turned negative.

bitcoin price chart (Behnam Norouzi/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Tech giants need nuclear power, and these wealthy investors are using crypto to make sure they get it

Startup Uranium Digital, backed by wealthy investors, is set to become fully operational later this quarter on the Solana blockchain.

Nuclear energy reactor. (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto's eligibility for 401k retirement funds is under fire after brutal market rout wipes out $2 trillion

"401ks exist to help people save for a secure retirement, not gamble on speculative assets," said an industry observer.

Crypto retirement plan in question after brutal selloff (Getty Images)

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Finance

Bitfarms shares surge after it ditches its 'bitcoin company' identity and doubles down on AI with U.S. move

The company said it will focus on building data centers for high-performance computing and artificial-intelligence workloads.

Bitfarms facility in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada.  (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Bitcoin isn’t losing to gold. It is navigating a liquidity squeeze that the yellow metal never had: Asia Morning Briefing

QCP's Darius Sit says October's deleveraging event exposed the real divide: bitcoin trades like collateral, altcoins trade like a bet on exchange governance

Bitcoin Logo (CoinDesk)

Markets

JPMorgan says bitcoin's lower volatility relative to gold might make it 'more attractive' in long term

ETF redemptions and futures liquidations are pressuring crypto markets, the bank said, even as rising gold volatility quietly strengthens bitcoin’s longer-term investment case.

Gold (Unsplash/Zlataky/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin spirals toward $60,000, heading to worst one-day drawdown since FTX blowup

One analyst points to the 200-day moving average — currently around $58,000 to $60,000 — as a potential support level to watch.

A trader slumps at his desk in front of chart screens (Getty Images+/Unsplash)

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Markets

Bitcoin's rising leveraged position points to continued dip buying, but may not yet signal price bottom

Bitfinex margin longs surge to a two-year high as bitcoin falls below $69k.

BTCUSD Longs Bitfinex (TradingView)

Tech

Ethereum's ENS identity system scraps planned rollup amid Vitalik's warning about layer-2 networks

Instead of launching its own rollup, ENS will now deploy its long-awaited ENSv2 upgrade exclusively on the Ethereum mainnet, citing dramatically lower gas costs and a broader change in Ethereum’s scaling philosophy.

Ethereum Name Service founder Nick Johnson (ENS)