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

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

Heading of Bitcoin Whitepaper

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)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Buys $100M BTC Boosting Total Total Stash to $1B

The miner bought about 990 bitcoin for average price of around $101,710 each.

Mining rig. (Shutterstock)

Markets

Solana Smashes Record With 66.9M Daily Transactions as Pengu Token Debuts

PENGU's debut sparked a surge on the Solana blockchain, resulting in more transactions than the combined activity of other leading blockchains.

Solana's onchain metrics vs industry leaders. (Artemis)

Policy

U.S. Shuts Down North Korean Crypto Money Laundering Network

OFAC says a front company in the UAE had been converting crypto into cash for North Korea.

North Korea, Kim Jong Un

Finance

Layer-2 Network Fuel to Airdrop 10% of New Token Supply to 200K Wallets

Fuel claims to be the fastest and cheapest Ethereum rollup.

Fuel to airdrop token to more than 200,000 wallets (Getty Images/Unsplash+)

Policy

SEC Approves Crypto Wallet Maker Exodus to List on NYSE American After Denying It in May

Exodus will list under its current ticker on NYSE American at the open of trading on Dec. 18

(stevepb/Pixabay)

Finance

Michael Novogratz's Galaxy Appoints Former Point72 Exec as CFO

The firm’s current chief financial officer, Alex Ioffe, will transition into a senior advisor role.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)