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

Kalshi secures license to offer margin trading to institutional investors

Margin feature is a departure from traditional prediction markets, which typically require fully collateralized positions, and comes as the industry sees growing trading volumes and investment.

Kalshi will have a prediction contract weighed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Canada moves to ban crypto donations for election campaigns following UK

Bill C-25 follows years of warnings from Canada's Chief Electoral Officer about the risk that crypto donations could pose to electoral integrity.

Mark Carney (Liberal Party)

Markets

Why bitcoin's 'compressed' valuation offers reduced downside risk versus stocks

The recent surge in oil and gas prices has driven up inflation expectations, causing markets to adjust their bets on Federal Reserve rate cuts, with traders now pricing in a near 40% chance of no rate cuts this year.

Laptop with markets monitor and charts. (Kanchanara/Unsplash)

Tech

Here's how bitcoin, Ethereum and other networks are preparing for the looming quantum threat

Across many of the most well-known ecosystems like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, responses are diverging along familiar lines: what to do on social consensus and technical iteration, and community members are split between caution and acceleration.

Quantum computer. (Getty Images)

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Tech

Watch out Bitcoin devs. Google says post-quantum migration needs to happen by 2029.

The search giant set a corporate deadline to migrate all authentication services to quantum-resistant cryptography, validating the timeline Ethereum has been building toward for eight years. Bitcoin's response so far has been silence.

Quantum Computing Room

Policy

White House crypto czar David Sacks transfers to presidential advisory committee role

White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks said Thursday he was joining the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and leaving the czar role.

Crypto and Artificial Intelligence Czar David Sacks speaks at the White House (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

Market structure bill compromise draws wide-ranging reaction from fractured crypto crowd

The yield agreement, seen as a step toward finally advancing the stalled market structure bill, hasn't yet fully won industry support.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong at the White House

Finance

BNY CEO says the future of crypto runs through big banks

Robin Vince says large banks can bridge digital assets and traditional finance as trust and regulation shape the next phase of growth.

BNY CEO Robin Vince (BNY)

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Markets

Circle stock plunges 20% as a new draft of the Clarity Act threatens stablecoin rewards

The latest version of the Clarity Act is pressuring stocks as it would restrict stablecoin rewards.

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Circle Speaks at Hong Kong Fintech Week in 2024 (HK Fintech Week)

Markets

Coinbase says the ‘second wave’ of crypto investors are prioritizing income over price appreciation

Coinbase’s head of institutional, Brett Tejpaul, says institutional priorities in crypto are evolving, and investors are increasingly hunting for yield.

(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)