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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Merkado

Adam Back’s $2.1B Bitcoin Treasury Play Set to Challenge MARA in BTC Holdings

Bitcoin Standard Treasury Co.'s SPAC deal combines fiat financing and a bitcoin-denominated PIPE, aiming to debut on the Nasdaq with over 30,000 BTC and an aggressive growth plan.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back at Consensus Hong Kong in February (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Pananalapi

XRP Ledger Used by Nasdaq-Listed Pharma Distributor to Power Payment System for Pharmacies

The distributor is rolling out an XRPL-powered system for 6,500 pharmacies to speed up payments, cut costs and expand blockchain use in healthcare finance.

A collection of pharmaceutical drugs

Pananalapi

Galaxy Secures $1.4B to Expand Helios Data Center for AI and HPC

The firm, led by Mike Novogratz, projected its deal with AI cloud firm CoreWeave could generate $1 billion in annual revenue over 15 years.

Mike Novogratz, Galaxy founder and CEO, speaks at Consensus 2024

Merkado

BONK Holds Key Support After Heavy Selling Hits Solana Meme Token

BONK stabilizes after testing major support, with institutional traders eyeing potential upside from current consolidation zone

BONK-USD, Aug. 15 2025 (CoinDesk)

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Merkado

Altcoin Season Could Begin in September as Bitcoin’s Grip on Crypto Market Weakens: Coinbase Institutional

Coinbase expects falling bitcoin dominance, improving liquidity and renewed investor appetite to shift gains toward altcoins starting in September.

Fall season

Merkado

Asia Morning Briefing: ETH's Bullrun Meets Early Signs of Selling Pressure

ETH’s rally is fueled by record flows and BTC outperformance, but rising exchange inflows spark debate over momentum vs. consolidation.

Ethereum

Tech

Ripple Exec on Why XRP Ledger Is ‘Uniquely Suited’ for Real World Asset Tokenization

Ripple Senior Vice President Markus Infanger explains how the characteristics and features of XRPL make it the perfect candidate for tokenizing real-world assets.

Blockchain illustration

Pananalapi

Billionaire Winklevoss Twins-Backed Gemini Launches Self-Custodial Smart Wallet

Gemini users can now access Web3 and DeFi ecosystems with social recovery, gas sponsorship, and integrated trading support.

Gemin's Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (Image Catcher News Service/Getty Images)

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Patakaran

Asia Morning Briefing: Korea’s 'Onshore' Won Policy Could Hinder Its Stablecoin Ambition

Korea's Won is stuck onshore. That's going to put a damper on any demand for a Won-backed stablecoin.

South Korea's flag (Daniel Bernard/Unsplash)

Pananalapi

Ethereum Wallet MetaMask Will Likely Unveil Its Own Stablecoin this Week

The MetaMask stablecoin (mUSD) was already reported to be in the works thanks to a prematurely posted governance proposal that was quickly deleted last week.

A fox (Unsplash)