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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Robinhood Eyes Global Expansion of Prediction Markets After U.S. Debut: Bloomberg

The retail trading platform is exploring launches in the UK and Europe after teaming up with Kalshi in August.

Robinhood logo on a mobile phone. (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Finance

Chainlink Teams With Major Financial Institutions to Fix $58B Corporate Actions Problem

A pilot project used Chainlink's infrastructure to extract and validate data, producing unified records in near real-time and reducing manual work and error.

Chainlink CEO and co-founder Sergey Nazarov

Markets

From SPACs to Cash-Flow Buys: How DATs Are Plotting the Next Growth Phase

Strive's Semler buy, the first DAT-to-DAT deal, cements “Bitcoin per share” as the key metric while setting the stage for a broader wave of consolidation.

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

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Schiff Challenges Saylor’s Bitcoin Bet, Analyst Says Sub-$107K BTC Is a 'Tremendous Buying Opportunity’

James van Straten sees a slow grind with 10–20% pullbacks while Michaël van de Poppe flags $112K as the trigger for an altcoin rally.

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Tether and Circle Are ‘Printing Money’ but Competition Is Coming: Wormhole Co-Founder

Platforms like M^0 and Agora are addressing the issue by allowing stablecoin infrastructure to be built to route yield to applications or directly to end users.

Money on a printer (Clay Banks/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto Treasury Firms Could Become Long-Term Giants like Berkshire Hathaway, Analyst Says

Ryan Watkins argues crypto treasury firms may evolve beyond speculation into lasting economic engines, deploying capital and building businesses across ecosystems.

Abstract digital illustration representing blockchain networks and crypto treasuries.

Finance

NYDIG Calls for Bitcoin Treasury Companies to Drop 'Misleading' mNAV Metric

NYDIG argued that mNAV fails to account for operating businesses and uses assumed shares outstanding, which can be inaccurate.

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Trader Who Bet $1B on Bitcoin, Returns With 3x Leveraged Long on Aster

James Wynn's new trade comes just days after being liquidated on the same token, as he believes ASTER's airdrop will be one of the biggest in crypto history.

Stock market price charts (Anne Nygård/Unsplash)

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As Gold Keeps Setting New Highs, China Reportedly Wants to Be Its Custodian for Central Banks

Beijing is said to be courting foreign central banks to store bullion in Shanghai vaults as gold hovers near record highs and demand strengthens.

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Finance

Crypto Miner TeraWulf to Raise $3B in Google-Backed Debt Deal to Expand Data Centers

Google already owns 14% of TeraWulf and is supporting other crypto firms like Cipher Mining in their AI expansions.

Data center (Taylor Vick/Unsplash)