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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Policy

CFTC sends crypto rules to White House to review as Congress stalls on Clarity Act

The regulator is moving ahead with crypto market rules as the SEC also opens a new path for tokenized stock trading.

CFTC's Mike Selig participates in a panel discussion during Consensus Miami 2026

Finance

Real stocks are finally coming on blockchain. Here’s how the SEC wants it to work

The SEC is giving tokenized stocks a regulated U.S. pathway, while keeping trading volumes, access and issuer rights tightly controlled.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Finance

SEC opens door to tokenized U.S. stock trading. Here’s who could benefit

The five-year experiment gives DeFi-style trading venues, tokenization firms and liquidity providers a new U.S. pathway while leaving synthetic stock tokens outside the framework.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Policy

SEC rolls out long-awaited 'innovation exemption' for tokenized securities venues

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a blanket 5-year exemption for listing and trading tokenized securities without registering as an exchange.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Policy

Hamas military wing told donors to avoid sending crypto directly from Binance, DOJ filing shows

Hamas’ military wing advised donors not to use Binance to handle funds but rather to use Trust Wallet, Bybit, OKX, Kast and Redotpay to send funds to an external TRON wallet, according to recent U.S. Department of Justice documents.

Hamas, Gaza

Policy

Crypto industry reacts after Clarity Act fails Senate vote

One of the most crucial U.S. regulations for crypto markets couldn't secure enough support to clear the Senate's final 60-vote hurdle.

Senator Cynthia Lummis (Senate webcast)

Policy

Even if Clarity fails, Wall Street’s crypto push is unlikely to stop

The Clarity Act could give banks, brokers and asset managers a clearer rulebook, but financial firms have already moved far enough into digital assets that failure may slow adoption rather than stop it.

Wall street signs (Lo Lo/Unsplash)

Policy

Here is the revised Clarity Act ethics provision Donald Trump has agreed to

The new Clarity Act draft would force divestiture and give state attorneys general the ability to sue to enforce the ethics provision.

U.S. President Donald Trump (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

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Markets

Dogecoin ETFs struggled for buyers while rival XRP and Solana funds pulled in $3 billion

Bitwise's BWOW dogecoin ETF will close after 10 months, adding to weak demand across DOGE funds and raising a harder question for altcoin ETFs: What problem are they actually solving?

A magnifying glass looking at Dogecoin's logo. (Dogecoin)

Finance

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK lands $97 million donations from two crypto billionaires in 24 hours

The combined haul equals the largest individual political donations in U.K. history, sharply scaling up crypto industry backing.

Nigel Farage (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)