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

BlackRock Mulling 10% Stake in Circle’s IPO, Joining ARK as Potential Buyer: Bloomberg

Circle filed for an initial public offering on Tuesday.

(BlackRock)

Finance

DeFi Platform Cork Protocol Suffers $12M Smart Contract Exploit

Cork Protocol has paused all markets as a precaution.

Hacker working on two laptops (Azamat E/Unsplash)

Markets

Toncoin: Telegram's Native Cryptocurrency Soars as Ex-Visa Exec Joins TON Foundation

Toncoin rallies after former Visa executive joins TON Foundation, triggering a surge in volume and renewed market optimism.

TON 24-hour chart showing 15.78% surge and breakout above $3.60 resistance

Markets

SHIB Stalls Below Key Resistance as Whale Activity Collapses 83%.

Large SHIB holders pull back sharply as liquidity shrinks, but analysts say ecosystem growth and long-term token burn plans may offer upside potential.

SHIB price slips 0.78% over 24 hours to $0.00001441 on May 28, 2025

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Finance

GameStop Purchases Over $500M Worth of Bitcoin

GameStop announced the purchase on X on Wednesday but did not offer further details about when the BTC were acquired or the price paid.

A GameStop store (CoinDesk Archive)

Markets

Asia Morning Briefing: Bitcoin Becomes ‘Generational Asset’ as Speculators Ditch Rolexes

PLUS: ETH's rally might be in its early stages, but there are a few headwinds holding it back

(Bence Balla-Schottner/Unsplash)

Policy

IMF Says 'Efforts Will Continue' to Ensure El Salvador Doesn't Accumulate More BTC

El Salvador has kept purchasing bitcoin, but the IMF seems unfazed.

Nayib Bukele asiste a la Asamblea Legislativa  por su segundo aniversario en el poder (Foto de Emerson Flores/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images)

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Tech

The Solana Network Is Now Live on MetaMask

It's the first time that MetaMask integrates a non-EVM network.

Solana banner in Austin, Texas (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

OKX Global General Counsel Is Latest Legal Exec to Leave the Exchange

The new chief legal officer, Linda Lacewell, is said to be restructuring the firm's legal and compliance divisions, according to a source familiar with the situation.

OKX trading app on a mobile phone (CoinDesk)