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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Finance

Bitfarms shares surge after it ditches its 'bitcoin company' identity and doubles down on AI with U.S. move

The company said it will focus on building data centers for high-performance computing and artificial-intelligence workloads.

Bitfarms facility in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada.  (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Bitcoin isn’t losing to gold. It is navigating a liquidity squeeze that the yellow metal never had: Asia Morning Briefing

QCP's Darius Sit says October's deleveraging event exposed the real divide: bitcoin trades like collateral, altcoins trade like a bet on exchange governance

Bitcoin Logo (CoinDesk)

Markets

JPMorgan says bitcoin's lower volatility relative to gold might make it 'more attractive' in long term

ETF redemptions and futures liquidations are pressuring crypto markets, the bank said, even as rising gold volatility quietly strengthens bitcoin’s longer-term investment case.

Gold (Unsplash/Zlataky/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin spirals toward $60,000, heading to worst one-day drawdown since FTX blowup

One analyst points to the 200-day moving average — currently around $58,000 to $60,000 — as a potential support level to watch.

A trader slumps at his desk in front of chart screens (Getty Images+/Unsplash)

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Bitcoin's rising leveraged position points to continued dip buying, but may not yet signal price bottom

Bitfinex margin longs surge to a two-year high as bitcoin falls below $69k.

BTCUSD Longs Bitfinex (TradingView)

Tech

Ethereum's ENS identity system scraps planned rollup amid Vitalik's warning about layer-2 networks

Instead of launching its own rollup, ENS will now deploy its long-awaited ENSv2 upgrade exclusively on the Ethereum mainnet, citing dramatically lower gas costs and a broader change in Ethereum’s scaling philosophy.

Ethereum Name Service founder Nick Johnson (ENS)

Finance

Wall Street giant CME Group is eyeing its own 'CME Coin,' CEO says

The initiative is part of CME's push into tokenized collateral, and the firm is collaborating with Google on a “tokenized cash” solution set to launch later this year.

(Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

Finance

From 'Ethereum’s sidekick' to standalone stars: How Vitalik Buterin’s latest pivot is forcing Layer 2s to grow up

Leaders across the layer-2 space don't see this moment as an existential threat, but rather that Ethereum’s progress is forcing them to clarify their purpose.

Vitalik Buterin on stage at RadicalXchange 2019. (Christine Kim/CoinDesk)

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Finance

WisdomTree, a firm with $150 billion in assets, says crypto is now a core business

WisdomTree’s Jonathan Steinberg says the firm’s tokenization push is nearing profitability, with $750 million in digital assets and long-term plans to modernize financial infrastructure.

Jonathan Steinberg (left), CEO, WisdomTree, and Kevin Reynolds, editor-in-chief, CoinDesk (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin’s wild Tuesday: From a 14-month low to a sharp rally triggers $740 million in liquidations

Bitcoin failing to bounce soon could set the stage for "one hell of a year," one analyst said.

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