Aoyon Ashraf

Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's managing editor for Breaking News. 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 University of Toronto with a degree in mining engineering. He holds ETH and BTC, as well as ALGO, ADA, SOL, OP and some other altcoins which are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Markets

GameStop's Halting Rally Has Crypto Howling

The U.S. stock market has circuit breakers that halt shares sometimes as a safeguard. That's funny to crypto folks.

GameStop's stock soared – intermittently – on Monday. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon In Talks With Kenya to Help With Its Green Energy Ambitions

Kenya's President William Ruto also wants to build a regulatory framework for crypto, with Marathon's help.

Nairobi, Kenya, Africa (Amani Nation/Unsplash)

Markets

Jack Dorsey Says Bitcoin Price Will Go Beyond $1 Million in 2030

Dorsey, who led the social media platform from 2015 to 2021, developed a strong interest in crypto during that time and is now fully focused on the sector.

Jack Dorsey speaks at Consensus 2018 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital Misses Q1 Revenue Expectation On Operational Challenges

The shares of the miner dipped about 1.5% in after hours trading on Thursday afternoon.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Finance

Robinhood's Q1 Crypto Trading Volume Surged 224% as SEC Action Looms

Shares in the popular trading platform were higher by 7% after the company topped first quarter revenue and earnings estimates.

Robinhood app on a smartphone (Shutterstock)

Finance

Revolut's Crypto Exchange Goes Live for Experienced Traders

London-based Revolut, which has more than 40 million customers worldwide, has developed Revolut X to compete with leading crypto exchanges

Revolut to Suspend Certain Crypto Services (Kaysha/ Unsplash)

Policy

Robinhood Gains 2%, Erasing Early Losses Following SEC Wells Notice

The trading platform previously ended support for all tokens that were named in SEC lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase.

SEC (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Full Transcript: Why MoonPay and PayPal Partnered to Expand Crypto Adoption in the U.S.

MoonPay co-founder and CEO Ivan Soto-Wright joins CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie in CDTV's "First Mover" to discuss MoonPay's recent partnership with PayPal.

A large PayPal logo is on display outside its corporate HQ (Shutterstock)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Stronghold Looking at Options, Including Sale of Company

The miner is looking at options including sale of all or part of the company and other strategic transactions.

Sale sign (Markus Spiske/Unsplash)

Tech

Bitcoin's Ethereum-Style Programmability Could Come in 12 Months, Rootstock Founder Says

The new project would build off the much-discussed "BitVM" design released last year by developer Robin Linus, which has kindled hopes that the oldest and largest blockchain could eventually see Ethereum-style programmable layer-2 networks.

Rootstock founder Sergio Demian Lerner spoke Wednesday about BitVMX at the Bitcoin++ conference in Austin, Texas (Bradley Keoun)