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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Policy

Jury Seated for Tornado Cash Dev Roman Storm's Trial

Opening arguments are set to begin shortly.

Tornado Cash's Roman Storm, second from left, and his legal team – Brian Klein (left), Keri Axel and Kevin Casey – outside court in New York. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. Prosecutors, CFTC Drop Polymarket Investigations

The FBI raided Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan's home last year.

Polymarket founder and CEO Shayne Coplan at CoinDesk's Consensus 2024.

Markets

Why ‘ETH Is Going to $10,000,' Explains EMJ Capital Founder and President

Eric Jackson, the founder and president of EMJ Capital, a Toronto-based hedge fund, explains why his firm believes that ether (ETH) is going to $10,000 in this bull cycle.

Ether fell 0.52% to $3,013.13 over the past 24 hours

Finance

Grayscale Files Confidential Submission for IPO With SEC

The asset manager joins a number of crypto firms that are looking to go public as the digital assets market heats up.

U.S. SEC headquarters in Washington (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Markets

Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High Above $120K as U.S. Inflation Data Looms

John Glover, CEO of Ledn said that BTC's rally has legs and prices could rise to $136,000 by the year-end.

Statue of a bull (ianproc64/Pixabay)

Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: How Will Coinbase Rebrand Its Wallet?

Coinbase's 'A New Day One' event is set to highlight where Base is going in the era of memecoins – and it all starts with a wallet rebrand.

Jesse Pollak (courtesy Winni Wintermeyer/Coinbase)

Markets

ICP Jumps 4% as Launch of AI-Powered Self-Writing Web3 Apps Platform ‘Caffeine’ Nears

Caffeine, which calls itself “the first complete tech stack designed for AI,” launches July 15 in San Francisco.

ICP rose 3.93% to $5.4762 over the past 24 hours

Markets

Chart of the Week: 'Hyperbitcoinization' May Not Be Just Maximalist Fantasy Anymore

As the bitcoin price breaks records and institutional demand ramps up, the once-theoretical endgame of hyperbitcoinization is starting to look more like a macro trend than just a crypto dream.

Were bitcoin Maxis right? (nopparit/Getty Images)

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Markets

Bitcoin Breaks $119K, While XLM and HBAR Lead Altcoin Rally

Although bitcoin's move on Sunday delighted bitcoiners, holders of two top 20 altcoins had even more reason to celebrate.

Bitcoin rose 1.38% to $118,882 in the past 24 hours

Markets

Stellar Performance From XLM as It Posts Top 24H Percentage Gain Among Top 20 Cryptos

On Saturday, Stellar's XLM surged 6% to $0.3880, making it the top performer by percent change among the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap.

XLM price rose 5.98% to $0.3880 over the past 24 hours