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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Tech

Ethereum Foundation Picks New Co-Executive Directors, Following Leadership Reshuffle

Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stańczak will be the new co-executive directors, as Aya Miyaguchi transitions into the organization's President. Also, ex-EF researcher Danny Ryan shares that he is joining Etherealize.

EF reshuffles leadership roles. (GettyImages)

Policy

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Calls Roger Ver's Potential Life Sentence 'Absurd'

Kraken founder Jesse Powell and pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht are also standing with Ver.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin

Markets

Swiss National Bank President Reportedly Dismisses Bitcoin as Reserve Asset

Despite Switzerland’s growing acceptance of cryptocurrencies, SNB's President dismissed them as a "niche phenomenon."

Swiss flags in Zurich (Claudio Schwarz/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin ETFs Finally Snap Eight-Day $3.2B Outflow Streak With $94.3M Inflows

The inflows come amid a slight market recovery as BTC rebounds from its monthly low, over growing pro-crypto stance from the Trump administration.

BTC, ETH carry trades lose shine, spurring record ETF outflows. (Pexels/Pixabay)

Markets

Crypto Prices Show Signs of Recovery With Bitcoin Above $84k Amid Trump's Summit Plans

The rebound comes amid a planned crypto summit hosted by Donald Trump and BlackRock’s inclusion of bitcoin in its model portfolios.

Price chart on an exchange (Nick Chong/Unsplash)

Finance

Donald Trump-Linked Firm May be Looking to Start NFT and Metaverse Platform

DTTM Operations filed a trademark application that hints at software that manages crypto, NFTs and virtual reality services.

Trump Trading Cards Series 2 (OpenSea)

Markets

CME Group to Launch Solana Futures as Demand for Crypto Derivatives Grows

CME Group expands its crypto offerings with Solana futures, set to debut in March.

CME Group Headquarters (CoinDesk Archives)

Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Consensus EasyA Hackathon Winners: AI Agents, Gaming, Trading, Payments, NFT Platforms

Hackathon for Consensus Hong Kong brought out some of the most innovative the early stage projects that could drive the Web3 world forward.

Consensus HK EasyA Hackathon (CoinDesk/Personae Digital)

Finance

Bybit and Safe Custody Are at Odds on Who's to Blame for $1.5B Hack

The apparent stand-off mirrors that of WazirX and Liminal Custody, which blamed each other following a $230 million exploit last July.

(Pixabay)

Finance

Core Scientific Stock Surges After $1.2B Expansion of Data Center With CoreWeave

The expansion will significantly increase Core Scientific’s AI and cloud computing capacity and increase total projected revenue to $10.2 billion over 12-year contract terms.

(Getty Images)