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

Why a selloff in gold and silver is dragging bitcoin down

Bitcoin has long been lumped in with precious metals as a hedge against a weakening dollar. That trade is unwinding on a hawkish Fed, and bitcoin is falling alongside the metals it was supposed to rival.

All but one of the recently launched spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) charge a lower fee than the largest gold ETF, making them a cheaper investment into a gold-like asset. (Unsplash)

Markets

BlackBerry is making a massive comeback as an 'uncrashable' software layer for AI and robotics

BlackBerry's stock is surging after the company's massive earnings beat and is pivoting into becoming a critical component of the AI and robotics boom.

BlackBerry (Getty Images)

Policy

Kraken sues crypto derivatives firm PowerTrade over 'misappropriated' funds claim

PowerTrade changed Kraken’s positive balance of more than $6 million to a $2 million deficit via a series of unauthorized “corrections” related to trades that had expired or settled months earlier, according to a legal filing.

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi. (CoinDesk)

Finance

Kalshi targets a massive $40 billion valuation, widening lead over rival Polymarket

The prediction market operator, which is eyeing a potential public debut in 2027, could close a new funding round in Q3, according to a Financial Times report.

Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Finance

Mexican billionaire with 70% of his investment portfolio in bitcoin says it's better than real estate

Ricardo Salinas Pliego, whose net worth is estimated at roughly $5 billion, is a bitcoin maximalist who told his wife to mortgage her house to buy bitcoin.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego (CoinDesk)

Tech

A new Bittensor proposal would turn validators into something like fund managers

Root Reborn would have TAO validators pick which subnets to back and reinvest yield into, rather than constantly selling subnet tokens to pay stakers. It is a code proposal in review, not a live change.

Pile of cash. (Emilio Takas/Unsplash)

Policy

Binance says its European regulatory application is compliant despite report of Greek rejection

An EU crypto license application by the world’s largest crypto exchange is set to be rejected by the Greek regulator HCMC, according to a report from Reuters.

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Finance

Hyperliquid loses Anthropic, OpenAI markets as creator shuts down project

Ventuals, one of the teams behind real-world asset perpetuals on Hyperliquid, said it is closing its markets and joining another project in the ecosystem.

A trader checks his phone while sitting in front of a screen with charts. (Pixabay)

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Markets

Bitcoin could crash to $48,000, if this historical pattern is triggered

A pattern stretching back to bitcoin's earliest days has held through every market cycle. It has yet to be tested in the current one.

(Jakub Żerdzicki/Unsplash)

Finance

Here's what SpaceX's IPO means for its $1.3 billion bitcoin reserve

The largest company on public markets now holds bitcoin as a treasury reserve, not as a business model. Its first earnings cycles will test which version of corporate crypto survives a bear market.

Elon Musk (Getty Images)