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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Finance

Here's what SpaceX's IPO means for its $1.3 billion bitcoin reserve

The largest company on public markets now holds bitcoin as a treasury reserve, not as a business model. Its first earnings cycles will test which version of corporate crypto survives a bear market.

Elon Musk (Getty Images)

Markets

Anthropic's pre-IPO shares fall as U.S. government shuts down its most powerful AI model

A jailbreak report prompted Washington to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from all users. Anthropic complied but pushed back hard, saying the finding sets a standard that would halt the entire AI industry.

CEO and co-founder of Anthropic Dario Amodei (Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin hit bottom at $59,000 marking end to the crypto winter, says Standard Chartered analyst

Senior market analyst Geoffrey Kendrick pointed to the SpaceX IPO and a potential U.S.-Iran peace deal as the dual catalysts ending the recent crypto selloff.

(Shkuru Afshar/Wikimedia Commons)

Tech

Live updates: SpaceX rallies nearly 20% in first session, while bitcoin trades shy of $64,000

Crypto firmed across the board following the largest equity listing in history. The token most tied to Elon Musk traded right in line with the market.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Getty Images)

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Tech

A 'Bitcoin DeFi' project just shut down with a brutal post-mortem: Users just didn't care

"It did not work," Botanix said. "At least not in this market and not in this timeline."

BitMEX and Bitmart shutting down.  (Tim Mossholder/Unsplashed)

Markets

Live updates: bitcoin holding below $62,000 as nervous Nasdaq falls further ahead of SpaceX IPO

Core inflation rose less than feared in May, but markets have turned lower in afternoon trade.

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Markets

Forehead tattoos and alcohol dares: Inside the dark underbelly of crypto's memecoin craze

Users are being paid to shave their heads, chug liquor and interview homeless people on camera, raising questions about whether Pump.fun's latest product rewards creativity or exploitation.

(Pump.fun)

Finance

Influential research firm that caused AI stock meltdown lays out Hyperliquid as 'compelling' idea

Unlike most crypto, Hyperliquid actually generates cash flow and has a token buyback mechanism, says Citrini Research

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Markets

Bitmine bought the dip, making its biggest ether purchase in 2026 as prices tanked

The company bought 126,971 ETH last week, worth roughly $214 million at current prices, despite chairman Tom Lee's earlier calls to slow purchases.

Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine and cofounder of Fundstrat, speaking at Consensus 2026 in Miami (CoinDesk)

Markets

Strategy buys 1,550 bitcoin one week after selling $2.5 million of coins

Strategy adds bitcoin and cash after raising $181 million through stock sales.

Michae Saylor (Jason Koerner/Getty Images)