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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Policy

Polymarket's Customer Data Sought by CFTC Subpoena of Coinbase, Source Says

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is said to be seeking information about customers' interactions with the prediction market site Polymarket.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Rostin Behnam

Finance

MANTRA Blockchain to Tokenize $1B of Real-World Assets for UAE-Based Property Firm DAMAC

The deal will allow token-based financing of DAMAC's wide range of portfolio companies that includes real estate development, hospitality and data centers.

Dubai (David Rodrigo/Unsplash)

Policy

Coinbase Granted Significant Advance in Court Clash With Gensler's SEC

A U.S. judge halted the case in which the exchange and SEC are duking it out over an enforcement matter, and will let Coinbase chase a higher-court appeal.

Coinbase CEO Brian Amstrong and SEC Chair Gary Gensler

Finance

AI Tokens Fail to Mirror 2024's Epic Surge Despite Bullish Nvidia Conference

AI tokens are struggling to perform despite bullish sentiment around AI stocks in traditional markets.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (BagoGames/Flickr)

Markets

Bitcoin’s Potential 'Head and Shoulders' Pattern Points to a Sell-Off to $75K: Godbole

BTC’s latest price drop might be setting the stage for a major bearish reversal pattern.

Ether bears have an upper hand following the trendline break (Shutterstock)

Markets

Bitcoin Returns Above $100K as Early 2025 Crypto Rebound Continues

Altcoin majors, including ether and solana, also rose sharply as U.S. markets opened on the first full week after holidays, with the broad-based CoinDesk 20 advancing 3.5% through the day.

Bitcoin (BTC) price on 01 06 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Avalon Labs Raises $10M Series A to Grow Bitcoin-Backed Stablecoin

The Series A funding round was led by Framework Ventures and included contributions from UXTO Management, Presto Labs and Kenetic Capital

Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper on Halloween Day in 2008. (Jonathan Borba/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

DeFi Protocol Usual's Surge Catapults Hashnote's Tokenized Treasury Over BlackRock's BUIDL

Hashnote's USYC is the primary backing asset of the red-hot decentralized finance protocol Usual, whose USD0 stablecoin zoomed over $1 billion market capitalization in a few months.

(Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, Modified by CoinDesk)