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

U.S. Law Enforcement Seizes $31M in Crypto Tied to Uranium Finance Hack

Hackers made off with approximately $50 million when the automated market maker was exploited in 2021.

SDNY Courthouse 40 Centre Street

Finance

OKX Settles U.S. DOJ Charges, Pays Over $500M Penalty and Forfeiture

An OKX subsidiary said it resolved a U.S. DOJ investigation.

OKCoin, Star Xu

Tech

Ethereum 'Roll Back' Suggestion Has Sparked Criticism. Here's Why It Won't Happen

Call for "roll back" by some, to negate Bybit hack, immediately provoked a fierce reaction from the Ethereum community, which was firm in its belief that it wouldn't happen.

(Jacob Lund/Shutterstock)

Finance

Bybit Sees Over $4 Billion ‘Bank Run’ After Crypto’s Biggest Hack

The exchange, facing a bank run and needing to process withdrawals, worked to secure a loan and developed new software to access frozen funds.

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou (Danny Nelson/ CoinDesk)

Markets

Binance Research Survey Shows 95% of Latin American Crypto Users Plan to Buy More in 2025

The survey found that investors entered the cryptocurrency space looking for significant returns and financial freedom.

Binance investor on ipad with keyboard (Kanchanara/Unsplash)

Markets

Ether Price Spikes Further on Reports of Bybit Starting to Buy ETH

The rise comes amid reports that Bybit has allocated 100 million USDT to a new wallet to buy the cryptocurrency.

Bybit logo

Markets

SEC Drops OpenSea Investigation Easing Pressure on NFT Market

The regulator’s decision comes after Coinbase said the SEC will vote on a deal to abandon its enforcement case against it.

OpenSea logo on phone (Unsplash)

Markets

Arthur Hayes Floats the Idea of Rolling Back Ethereum Network to Negate $1.4B Bybit Hack, Drawing Community Ire

"I would support it because we already voted no on immutability in 2016," Hayes said on X, while Ethereum community strongly criticized it.

Arthur Hayes, CIO, Maelstrom, pictured at CfC St. Moritz 2025 (CfC St. Moritz)

Markets

North Korean Hackers Were Behind Crypto's Largest 'Theft of All Time'

Lazarus Group was behind Bybit's $1.5 billion hack on Friday, Arkham Intelligence said, citing ZackXBT.

(Pixabay)

Finance

CZ Suggests Bybit Halt Withdrawals, Offers Help With $1.5B Hack

Bybit CEO has said that the exchange is solvent and withdrawals remain open.

Binance's former CEO, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao (Photos from Smorshedi/Wikimedia Commons and CoinDesk/Flickr, modified by CoinDesk)