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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Технології

Clock is ticking for bitcoin to prevent quantum threat as it could drain 6.9 million BTC including Satoshi’s

Can a network without formal governance coordinate the biggest cryptographic migration in its history?

A detail of the Satoshi Nakamoto statue in Budapest, Hungary. (Janos Kummer/Getty Images)

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Michael Saylor says the bitcoin winter is over. Some experts agree, with caveats.

Market analyst Mati Greenspan said bitcoin has not gone through a “winter,” rather a pullback within a broader bull market, adding the next leg up for bitcoin will be driven by nation-state adoption.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Фінанси

Tether freezes $344 million in USDT on Tron tied to 'illicit activity'

The stablecoin issuer said the action followed U.S. law enforcement requests as global watchdog FATF warned of growing role of digital dollars in illicit money flows.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino at White House

Фінанси

Core Scientific seeks $3.3 billion bond sale to further AI data center pivot

The company is building six AI data centers, leased to CoreWeave for 12 years, and is expected to generate approximately $10 billion in revenue.

Core Scientific's mining facility in Calvert City, Ky. (CoinDesk archives)

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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)

Фінанси

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)

Фінанси

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)

Технології

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.

(Getty Images)

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Технології

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)

Політика

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)