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

Sui Jumps Nearly 4% After Google Selects It as Launch Partner for AI Payments Protocol

Sui outperformed the broader crypto market following its inclusion in Google’s Agentic Payments Protocol.

SUI rose 4% over the past 24 hours.

Finance

Crypto Trading Firm Keyrock Buys Luxembourg's Turing Capital in Asset Management Push

With the acquisition, Keyrock aims to expand services beyond market making into on-chain portfolio management.

Keyrock CEO and co-founder Kevin de Patoul (Keyrock)

Markets

Solana Stronger Bet Than ETH as SOL Holds Key Support, Says Analyst

Altcoin Sherpa highlights SOL's relative strength against ETH, while CoinDesk Research points to key support around $233 and a trading ceiling near $238.

SOL price at $232.11 on Sept. 16 with 24H trading swings

Finance

Google Teams Up With Coinbase to Bring Stablecoin Payments to AI Apps

The tech giant expands its open-source AI protocol into financial transactions, partnering with Coinbase, the Ethereum Foundation to integrate stablecoin rails.

(Pawel Czerwinski/Unsplash)

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ETH Going to $5,500 by Mid-October, Says Fundstrat’s Global Head of Technical Strategy

Mark Newton sees ether dips toward $4,375 as buying opportunities before a rally, while recent trading shows heavy selling, sharp rebounds, and a key support test.

ETH price chart at $4,506 on Sept. 16, 2025

Finance

Robinhood Expands Private Equity Token Push With New Venture Capital Fund

The fund would invest in a basket of private companies across various industries and hold them through IPO and beyond.

Robinhood website (PiggyBank/ Unsplash/ Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

MoonPay to Buy Startup Meso to Expand Crypto Payments Further

The deal comes after MoonPay acquired Solana-powered crypto payment processor Helio for $175 million in January.

Moon (Alois Grundner/Pixabay

Tech

Ethereum Foundation Starts New AI Team to Support Agentic Payments

Research scientist Davide Crapis announced a new EF unit focused on AI payments, coordination and standards like ERC-8004 to ensure decentralized, verifiable infrastructure.

Ethereum Logo (Midjourney / Modified by CoinDesk)

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Markets

Bullish Gets a New $55 Price Target from KBW With U.S. Entry Seen as Key Catalyst

The bank assumed coverage of the crypto exchange with a market perform rating and a $55 price target.

Crypto platform Bullish goes public on the New York Stock Exchange. (CoinDesk/Nik De)

Markets

GPU Gold Rush: Why Bitcoin Miners Are Powering AI’s Expansion

Bitcoin mining firms are transforming their energy-hungry facilities into AI data centers, chasing stable contracts and higher returns as crypto profitability wanes.

Mining machines (GreenBelka/Shutterstock)