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 how bitcoin's price rise could be fueled by job-stealing AI software

Bitcoin's future hinges less on technological factors and more on how AI affects growth, employment, real interest rates, and central bank liquidity, NYDIG Research argues.

Trading screen with price monitors and charts (Yashowardhan Singh/Unsplash)

Policy

Bitcoin is stuck in a rut but JPMorgan says new legislation could be the ultimate spark

JPMorgan said the long-awaited Clarity Act would bring regulatory clarity, boost institutional participation and accelerate tokenization across U.S. crypto markets.

The U.S. Capitol.

Finance

Iran crisis puts the regime's $7.8 billion crypto shadow economy in spotlight

The government relies on this crypto infrastructure for international trade, while ordinary Iranians use it as a financial lifeline during protests and economic crises.

Map of Iran with a pin just north of Esfahan. (Tudoran Andrei/Shutterstock)

Markets

Crypto community fear of Iran choking oil supply and crashing markets may be overblown

A full closure of the strait is unlikely or impractical, some experts argue.

Shipping vessel at sea (Getty Images/Unsplash+/Modified by CoinDesk)

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Tech

Former Mt. Gox CEO proposed a rewrite of bitcoin's code to recover $5 billion in stolen funds. Gets quickly shutdown

Mark Karpelès submitted a pull request to Bitcoin Core that would redirect coins that have remained untouched since 2011 to a recovery address controlled by the MtGox trustee, reigniting the oldest debate in Bitcoin.

Mt Gox

Finance

Citi and Morgan Stanley expand bitcoin and crypto custody, trading and tokenization efforts

As Citi plans to integrate Bitcoin into bank-grade custody and reporting frameworks, Morgan Stanley moves to bring crypto trading, lending exploration and tokenized products to mainstream wealth clients.

Citi building. (Photo: Declan Sun-Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Vitalik Buterin reveals his bold new plan to fix Ethereum’s scaling problem

The new post reflects Buterin’s renewed focus on scaling Ethereum’s base layer, after several years in which much of the ecosystem’s scaling strategy centered on layer-2 rollups.

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin at Techcrunch London 2015

Markets

Bitcoin Miner MARA jumps 17% after striking a deal with Starwood to build AI data centers

The bitcoin miner inked a deal with investment firm Starwood to convert and expand select facilities to serve data center needs for AI.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel, at the Bitcoin conference in Miami (CoinDesk)

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News Analysis

Here is why Ethereum's bold new plan could make the blockchain giant high-speed 'internet of value' by 2029

Beneath the technical language of the 'Strawmap' is a far simpler story: Ethereum is trying to decide what kind of infrastructure it wants to be by the end of the decade.

Justin Drake (Getty Images)

Tech

A former Solana exec is taking a page out of Wall Street playbook to make global crypto trades faster

The goal is to reduce Solana’s growing geographic concentration in Europe and introduce multicast functionality.

Stablecoin networks (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)