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 Price and Hashrate Divergence May Set the Scene for a Potential Rally, Historical Data Shows

September's counter-seasonal price trend has already started to show signs of this divergence trend helping BTC.

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Finance

MicroStrategy Boosts Bitcoin Holdings With $458M Purchase, Upsized Convertible Note Offering to $1B

With the latest acquisition, the company now holds 252,220 bitcoin worth nearly $16 billion at current prices.

MicroStrategy executive chairman and co-founder Michael Saylor. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Investment Firm Deus X Capital Unveils DeFi Unit Which Will Start New Yield Generating Protocol

The company will debut its first protocol on the Solana blockchain in early 2025 with more than $100 million in total value locked.

Deus X CEO Tim Grant (Deus X)

Markets

Bitcoin's Breakout to New Highs Could Be Near, Past Market Cycles Suggest

The top crypto's current correction from the March peak resembles the action of 2016 and 2020 during the previous bull runs, which resolved in new all-time highs in the latter months of the year.

Bernstein forecasts new crypto cycle ( Hans Eiskonen/Unsplash)

Finance

Police Arrest Two People Related to $243M Crypto Heist Targeting Genesis Creditor

More than $9 million has been frozen and $500,000 has been returned as a result of the investigation.

Two arrested in relation to crypto heist. (Zoshua Colah/Unsplash)

Finance

Trump Buys Burgers With Bitcoin at NYC Crypto Hangout PubKey

The former president and Republican nominee sent the transaction with the help of PubKey staff.

Trump sending bitcoin transaction at PubKey bar in NYC (Fox News/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Fed Cuts Interest Rates by 50 Basis Points, Bitcoin Briefly Hits $61K Before Sell-Off

Market participants were uncertain about the size of the rate cut prior to the Fed meeting, laying the groundwork for market volatility.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 30, 2022. (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Markets

Stablecoins May Cushion Fed Rate Cut Impact on Treasury Tokens, Libeara's Head of Business Development Says

The Fed is likely to cut rates on Wednesday, starting the so-called liquidity easing cycle.

Standard Chartered building (Chengting Xie/Unsplash)

Finance

Cash Is Still King, Consumers Would Prefer to Use Money Over CBDCs: Deutsche Bank

44% of respondents in the bank's survey said they would rather use cash then a central bank digital currency and 57% said they would prefer to use a debit or credit card than a CBDC.

Deutsche Bank logo

Finance

DePIN Tech Shows Promise, But Implementation Faces Several Hurdles, Moody's Says

The Wall Street ratings agency's first-ever report about the sector underscores the increased attention towards DePIN apps.

Digital Planet Earth and Global Network (World Map Credit to NASA / Yuichiro Chino / Getty Images)