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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Retail Bitcoin Traders Are Showing Most Fear Since Oct. 20 Crypto Crash: Santiment

Volume rose 60.5% above the weekly average as long-term holders sold 325,600 BTC and trading compressed into a $107,000 to $108,000 band near support.

A photo of a worried looking man sitting on a sofa, representing fear in bitcoin traders after BTC falls to $107K.

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SharpLink Plans $200M ETH Deployment on Consensys’ Linea Over Multiple Years

SharpLink said it will use Anchorage Digital to deploy ether on Linea, combining ether.fi staking and EigenCloud restaking to seek yield under institutional controls.

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Wealth Managers Scramble to Add Crypto as UAE's Ultra-Rich Demand Digital Assets

Swiss software firm Avaloq, which serves numerous private banks and wealth managers, surveyed trends in high net worth (HNW) investing in the UAE.

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Bitcoin Miners Sit on Prime Power Assets as AI Pivot Accelerates: Canaccord

The broker said bitcoin mining still drives nearly all sector revenue even as the narrative shifts toward AI.

Racks of mining machines.

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PEPE Drops Nearly 2% as Memecoins Struggle, Late-Session Bounce Hints at Buyer Support

Despite the drop, trading volume was only 7.55% above the weekly average, suggesting routine profit-taking rather than a significant shift in sentiment.

"PEPE Meme Coin Shows 0.89% Decline with Late-Session Institutional Buy Amid Consolidation"

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Aptos Token Underperforms Wider Crypto Market as Traders Remain in a Wait-And-See Mode

The token has support in the $3.48-$3.485 zone and resistance at $3.60.

APT Edges Up 1.02% to $3.51 Amid Low Volume and Resistance at $3.63 Barrier

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Bitcoin Set for Massive Surge as Bank Reserves Near 'Danger Zone,' Says Adam Livingston

The Kobeissi Letter reported that bank cash at the Federal Reserve fell to about $2.93 trillion; Adam Livingston says that level signals a shift that would favor bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Rebounds as $319M in Shorts Are Liquidated While Traders Eye U.S.-China Talks

Bitcoin cleared $112,000 on heavy volume and hovered near $114,500 late Sunday (UTC), while CoinGlass showed $319 million of short positions liquidated over 24 hours.

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Teucrium CEO: 'Enormous Interest' in XRP, 'Extraordinary’ Success for Firm's XRP ETF

Sal Gilbertie says hundreds of millions of dollars arrived in about 16 weeks, credits the XRP Army for fast traction and forecasts a broad crypto ETF wave.

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Bitcoin Shines as a 'Liquidity Barometer,' Not an Inflation Hedge, NYDIG Says

Gold, traditionally seen as an inflation hedge, also shows inconsistent and often negative correlations with inflation, the data shows.

Here's what bitcoin bulls are saying as price remains stuck during global rally