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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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

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)

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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)

Markets

Nearly 25% of Adults With Internet Access in Asia Might Own Crypto, Report Says

Nearly a quarter of adults might own crypto, but ease of use and access remain limiting factors, the report, produced by CoinDesk and Protocol Theory said.

Globe (Subhash Nusetti/Unsplash)

Markets

Retail Mood Sours Amid Crypto Selloff, Flashing Short-Term Bottom Signals for BTC, ETH, XRP

A fresh wave of pessimism is sweeping across crypto markets, but the mood shift may be doing more good than harm.

Trading screens at sunset (sergeitokmakov/Pixabay/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Chainlink Breaks Below $14.50 Amid Broader Selloff; Reserve Adds 74K LINK Despite Losses

Technical breakdown occurred despite positive institutional developments as volume surged during selloff

"LINK Falls 3% Below $15 Amid ETF Rally Breakdown and Surge in Selloff Volume"

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Policy

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)

Markets

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)