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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Markets

Bitcoin Breaks Fresh Record Topping $116,000

The new all-time high on Thursday follows multiple attempts to break above the $112,000 level.

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Markets

ICP Surges 4% on Strong Volume and Developer Momentum

ICP climbs to $5.19 after a breakout rally, with rising volume and leading GitHub activity highlighting blockchain growth.

ICP-USD July 10 2025 (CoinDesk)

Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: Nvidia’s Rally to $4 Trillion Might Have Helped BTC, But Correlation Is Waning

The Correlation between the GPU giant's stock and BTC is down from last year.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (Nvidia)

Markets

FLOKI Lists on Webull Pay, Unlocking Access to 24M Users Amid Volatile Trading

FLOKI is now available on Webull Pay, a popular U.S. crypto trading platform, widening exposure to millions of retail traders despite volatile price action.

FLOKI price chart shows volatile 6% range ending at $0.00008946

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Bitcoin Cash Holds Above $500 After Volume-Driven Morning Rally

BCH rose sharply to $514.24 in early trading before consolidating between $505 and $510, showing signs of institutional interest.

BCH trades above $500 after early morning price surge

Markets

Bitcoin Price Starts Surging After Trump Says 'Fed Rate' Is 300 Basis Points Too High

BTC jumped within 30 minutes of Trump’s rate-cut post as analysts weighed inflation risks and the impact of a potential 300 bp cut on asset prices.

BTC chart shows steady recovery toward $109,343 after Trump post

Finance

Dubai's Emirates Airline Explores Cryptocurrency Payments With Crypto.com Partnership

The carrier aims to tap into a "younger, tech-savvy customer segment" that wants to pay with crypto, an Emirates executive said.

Emirates Airline (Saim Munib/Unsplash)

Markets

Stellar Surges 14% Before Sharp Reversal as Network Upgrade Fuels Volatility

Stellar rallies 14.3% on soaring volume and developer momentum as the "v23.0.0rc2" release reinforces protocol readiness

XLM-USD July 9 2025 (CoinDesk)

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Tech

Crypto Exchange Bullish Teams Up With Solana for Institutional Stablecoin Push

Bullish and the Solana Foundation will work on institutional-grade financial infrastructure with stablecoins built on Solana to serve as the primary rails for the exchange.

Close-up of the head of a statue of a bull (cjweaver13/Pixabay)

Finance

Ripple Taps BNY to Custody Stablecoin Reserves as RLUSD Surpasses $500M

The move follows Ripple's application for a national banking license and a Federal Reserve master account to further integrate with the U.S. financial system.

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple Labs (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)