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

Crypto custody firm Copper is looking to sell the company for $500 million

Cantor Fitzgerald has been appointed to help with the sale, according to sources.

Amar Kuchinad, Copper's global CEO (Copper)

Tech

Vitalik Buterin outlines Ethereum's privacy measures. Here is what it means for the network and ETH

Privacy is widely seen as a necessary feature for the widespread adoption of blockchain technology. Ethereum is taking steps in that direction.

Vitalik Buterin speaking at ETHDenver in February 2022

Finance

Zerohash pursues new funding at more than $1.5 billion valuation after Mastercard drops investment plans

Crypto infrastructure providers are drawing renewed investor interest as Wall Street deepens its push into digital assets.

Mastercard (CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto users are choosing juicy yields over protection, putting billions at risk of hacks

DeFi insurance protocols debuted with huge ambitions during the 2020 crypto boom. But as hacks evolved and users chased yields over protection, most of the sector collapsed under the same risks it was built to cover.

Yield sign (Shutterstock)

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Markets

Bhutan ‘doesn’t recall’ selling any bitcoin, disputing widely tracked $1 billion BTC drawdown

Arkham Intelligence data shows that over $1 billion in bitcoin has left wallets attributed to Bhutan in the past year, flowing to exchanges and trading firms. The country says it has not sold any.

Buddha point, Thimphu, Bhutan (Passang Tobgay/Unsplash)

Finance

Here is why Wall Street is racing to tokenize the entire stock market

Tokenization has been the narrative of 2026. Executing on that narrative is trickier, but proponents say the benefits are massive if they pull it off.

CoinDesk

Markets

Strive’s SATA to become first U.S. listed security to pay daily cash dividends

The daily payout structure lifts the effective yield to 13.88% as the company eliminates all debt and expands its bitcoin treasury strategy.

Strive CEO Matt Cole speaks at BTC Asia in Hong Kong (screenshot)

Finance

Ethereum app builder Consensys has delayed its potential IPO until fall

The MetaMask wallet builder had reportedly engaged bankers from JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to lead the process.

Joe Lubin (David Paul Morris/Consensus)

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Markets

Metaplanet delays preferred share listing amid challenging Japanese market structure

CEO Simon Gerovich says regulatory and infrastructure challenges are slowing the launch of Metaplanet's perpetual preferred share.

Japan flag in front of a building (Roméo A./Unsplash)

Markets

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Live markets: Bitcoin dips below $80,000 as producer price inflation surges to 6%

U.S. PPI surged well above forecasts in April, reviving concerns that rising oil prices and Iran-related supply risks may feed another inflation wave.

Wooden block tiles spell out the word "inflation"