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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Grayscale Launches Trust for Story Protocol to Tap Into $80T Intellectual Property Market

The new Grayscale Story Trust offers investors exposure to $IP, the token powering programmable digital rights on blockchain.

Grayscale ad (Grayscale)

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Bolivia Looks to El Salvador for Help Building Its Crypto Regulatory Framework

Bolivia’s central bank has signed a cooperation agreement with El Salvador’s crypto regulator to help build a local digital asset ecosystem.

Bolivian Flag (Unsplash)

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Asia Morning Briefing: MSFT, Meta Soar on Strong AI Earnings, but Crypto AI Tokens Fail to Follow

MSFT and Meta both rocketed off in after-hours trading after reporting strong earnings, thanks to Artificial Intelligence, but on the crypto side, there wasn't much movement.

microsoft

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U.S. Bitcoin Reserve Coming, Bo Hines says, 'People will be very Pleased'

Two of President Donald Trump's leading officials on crypto, Bo Hines and Treasury's Tyler Williams, gave CoinDesk an inside take on their new report.

Bo Hines on CoinDesk TV

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Crypto Bulls Get Hit With $200M in Liquidations as Powell Rattles Market With Fed Warning

Altcoins like SOL, AVAX, HYPE were down 4%-5% before paring losses, while BONK and PENGU plunged 10% then bounced back.

plunge (shutterstock)

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Robinhood Q2 Earnings Beat Expectations as Crypto Volumes Climb and Bitstamp Deal Pays Off

Robinhood posted $160 million in revenue from crypto-related trading and $989 million in overall revenue, outpacing expectations as acquisitions are reshaping the firm.

Robinhood website (PiggyBank/ Unsplash/ Modified by CoinDesk)

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DoubleZero Launches $537M SOL Stake Pool to Turbocharge Solana Validator Network

DoubleZero’s new 3 million SOL stake pool, DZSOL, aims to decentralize Solana validator infrastructure by offering access to its high-speed fiber network.

A standing Austin Federa talks on stage at BUIDL Asia 2024

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No U.S. Bitcoin Reserve Plans as White House Touts Crypto Report

The report on the government's crypto plans doesn't offer a ton of surprises, mostly echoing familiar policy work, and it's got nothing new on the crypto stockpiles.

Donald Trump (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Telegram Bans $35B Scam Marketplace. Only to See Illicit Crypto Trades Surge Elsewhere

While Telegram banned Huione and Xinbi Guarantee channels amid pressure from blockchain intelligence firms and U.S. regulators, the broader ecosystem is beginning to bounce back.

Huione website (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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BONK Sinks 12% as Meme Token Sector Faces Heavy Sell-Off

Solana-based BONK token plunged as transaction volumes spiked to 2.59 trillion amid large holders offloading ahead of the Fed’s policy meeting.

BONK-USD, July 30 2025 (CoinDesk)