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

A crucial bitcoin market indicator is signaling that the worst of the crypto crash might be over

The metric shows bitcoin's market price is getting close to its realized fair value after the recent sell-off.

A trader checks his phone while sitting in front of a screen with charts. (Pixabay)

Finance

A crypto pioneer who turned a $20 million family stake into a billion-dollar fund doubles down on bitcoin

Sourcing initial capital from his mother to build a $1 billion crypto empire, DFG CEO James Wo says market metrics do not support Tom Lee’s $250,000 ether prediction.

James Wo, CEO and founder of DFG. (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Finance

A massive hiring wave reveals trading firms are no longer viewing Polymarket as a niche betting tool

While rising volume on Polymarket and Kalshi is attracting quantitative firms to prediction markets, they aren't focusing on event outcomes; rather, they're exploiting market inefficiencies for profit.

Giants quant firms are building out prediction market trading desk. (Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Why diehard bitcoin purists aren’t sweating the massive price crash that wiped out $200 billion

Mati Greenspan, Michael Saylor and Jameson Lopp blamed the AI boom for draining capital from bitcoin. Meanwhile, Jack Mallers refrained from sharing an outlook but recommended buying the dip.

Bitcoin (nopparit/Getty Images)

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Tech

AI exposed a massive flaw in top crypto network and experts warn banks could be next

After an AI model helped uncover a four-year-old flaw in Zcash, security researchers warn that similar bugs may be hiding across crypto and traditional financial systems.

A computer screen with code. (Pexels/Pixabay)

Markets

'Dr. Doom'-backed Atlas Capital CEO says bitcoin could crash 70% before reaching $500,000

Backed by economist Nouriel Roubini, a long-time anti-bitcoin advocate, and known as 'Dr. Doom,' the Atlas CEO, Reza Bundy, shot a short-term warning for bitcoin but stayed bullish in the long-term.

Atlas CEO Reza Bundy predicts a massive financial crisis is incoming, which will send bitcoin down below the $30,000 level. (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Tech

Bitcoin’s hash rate dwarfs top 100 supercomputers by 600k times, says Bittensor co-founder

Ala Shaabana explains how using Bitcoin network’s coordinate-and-reward playbook can bust open corporate monopolies on AI.

Bittensor co-founder Ala Shaabana (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. sanctions Iranian crypto exchanges in ongoing war against the country

OFAC said it was blacklisting Nobitex and three other Iranian exchanges, as well as a few executives, citing links to terror and other crimes.

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Markets

Strategy's bitcoin sale may mark start of ether outperformance, StanChart's Kendrick says

ETH could outperform BTC by 40% from current levels as bitcoin treasuries may sell assets to cover obligations, the bank's digital asset research head said.

Tom Lee and Michael Saylor at Consensus (CoinDesk)

Markets

Strive added 2,500 bitcoin last week to reach 19,000 BTC as Strategy sold

Benchmark's Mark Palmer also initiated coverage of the stock with a Buy rating and $32 price target as ASST shares fell about 4% pre-market.

Strive CEO Matt Cole speaks at BTC Asia in Hong Kong (screenshot)