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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Mastercard Says It Has Moved Beyond Experimentation in Crypto, Focused on 'Real Solutions'

“What is stopping [crypto] from going mainstream is really that consumers need to be able to find each other using what they already know,” Mastercard’s head of crypto and blockchain, Raj Dhamodharan told CoinDesk.

Raj Dhamodharan, Head of Crypto and Blockchain, Mastercard (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Фінанси

Bitcoin Staking Platform Core Joins Crypto Lender Maple and Custodians BitGo, Copper, Hex Trust

The ability to earn yield on bitcoin and potentially unleash a new wave of liquidity into the DeFi ecosystem has become a hot topic of late.

Maple Finance's Sid Powell (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Wrapped AVAX Sees Increased Wallet Accumulation Amid Bybit Card Cashback Adoption

Nearly 4,000 wallets added WAVAX holdings, 1.8 times the recent average, according to onchain data.

Caution avalanche (Nicolas Cool/Unsplash)

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Gold-Backed Tokens Underperform While Wall Street Calls for Dip Buying in Precious Metal

Gold’s price dropped while risk assets rose amid speculation Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are no more than a negotiating tool.

Gold bar (Scottsdale mint/Unsplash)

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Pump.fun Doubles Down on Memecoin Craze by Starting Mobile App as New Token Launch Hits Record

The growing number of new tokens may lead to liquidity fragmentation and decreased trader attention in any single project, CoinGecko COO said.

person holding mobile device. (Jonas Leupe/Unsplash)

Фінанси

Blockchain.com Takes Step Towards IPO With New Executive Appointments

The company is joining a growing number of cryptocurrency firms for IPO ambitions amid growing institutional adoption and a more favorable regulatory environment.

Ether ETFs draw in millions as BTC ETFs see outflows.

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Abu Dhabi Discloses $437M Stake in BlackRock Spot Bitcoin ETF

The ownership interest was held via Mubadala Investments, one of the country's sovereign wealth funds

Abu Dhabi

Технології

How a Sitting President Became Crypto's Most Sought-After Investor

Blockchain founders like MOVE's Rushi Manche are clamoring for a spot in the president's crypto portfolio, hoping it will boost their token price.

Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Coindesk News

El Salvador Dispatch: Searching for Bitcoin City, the Modern El Dorado

President Nayib Bukele vowed to build Bitcoin City on the Conchagua volcano. CoinDesk went looking for signs of construction.

The Conchagua volcano facing the Gulf of Fonseca (Esaú Fuentes González, Unsplash)

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OpenSea Confirms Upcoming Token Airdrop, Expands to Crypto Trading

The new platform OS2 will combine NFT and token trading and support multiple blockchains.

OpenSea logo on phone (Unsplash)