Aoyon Ashraf

Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's Head of Americas. 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 ADA, SOL, ATOM and some other altcoins that are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Markets

Coinbase Earnings Pain Likely as Retail Activity Slumps, Wall Street Analysts Warn

Barclays, JPMorgan, Compass Point and Oppenheimer all cut their first-quarter forecasts last month, citing weaker crypto trading.

Coinbase. (appshunter.io/Unsplash)

Tech

Why One of Uniswap DAO’s Most Outspoken Members Just Walked Away in Frustration

The situation highlights the struggle of balancing DeFi protocol interests.

Uniswap DAO is down a delegate this week. (Getty Images)

Markets

SHIB Plunges 7.4% in One Week, but Market Sentiment Remains Cautiously Optimistic

Institutional investors accumulate despite volatility, with 109 new SHIB millionaire wallets emerging in April.

SHIB-USD 1-hour price chart showing a 0.45% decline to 0.041285 on May 5, 2025, with volume spikes around 19:00 GMT

Policy

Leading House Dem Will Block Crypto Market Structure Bill Hearing

Rep. Maxine Waters said she is concerned about U.S. President Donald Trump's increasing crypto ties.

Rep. Maxine Waters (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin Traders’ Favorite Lottery Ticket for the First Half of the Year — The $300K BTC Call

"There are always folks that want the hyperinflation hedge," one observer said, explaining the solid open interest build up in the $300K call option expiring on June 26.

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Markets

Chart of the Week: '10x Money Multiplier' for Bitcoin Could Take Wall Street by Storm

Publicly traded firms relentlessly buying bitcoin for their balance sheet could result in 'significant buy pressure.'

Could BTC price rise 44% from firms buying in the open market? (Getty Images)

Markets

Gold-Backed Crypto Minting Volume Hits 3-Year High as Central Bank Buying Drops

A surge in demand, particularly from ETFs, pushed the average quarterly gold price to a record high.

Stacked gold bars (Scottsdale Mint/Unsplash)

Markets

A Tiny Company Wants to Buy $20M TRUMP Token to Change U.S.-Mexico Trade Deals

Freight Technologies, which also invested in FET tokens, says it's aiming to strengthen its technology and geopolitical positioning.

President Donald Trump (Getty Images)

Policy

Arizona Governor Calls Crypto an ‘Untested Investment,’ Vetoes Bitcoin Reserve Bill

The bill, Senate Bill 1025, aimed to create a digital assets reserve managed by the state.

Documents inside of a box (vuk burgic/Unsplash)

Markets

‘Like Spitting on a Fire’: Tether CEO Slams EU Deposit Protections Amid Bank Failure Warnings


Paolo Ardoino criticizes EU rules that could force stablecoin issuers to rely on fragile banks and warned about potential bank failures in the future.

Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino at Paris Blockchain Week on April 14, 2022. (Twitter/Bitfinex, modified by CoinDesk)