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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Finance

Galaxy Digital Gets SEC Nod for U.S. Listing, Eyes Nasdaq Debut in May

Galaxy Digital plans to redomicile in Delaware and list shares on Nasdaq after May 9 shareholder vote.

Galaxy founder Mike Novogratz (Shutterstock)

Finance

Bitcoin Mining Stocks Plunge as Revenue Craters Amid Market Carnage

MARA, RIOT, CLSK among mining stocks that fell more than 10% on Monday.

(Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Markets

Cathie Wood’s ARK Buys Over $13M Worth Coinbase Shares During Market Rout

ARK Invest adds over 83,000 shares of Coinbase across multiple ETFs during the market downturn.

Ark Invest's Cathie Woods (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin Posts Worst Q1 in a Decade, Raising Questions About Where the Cycle Stands


BTC fell 11.7% in Q1 2025, its weakest first quarter since 2015, as investors sold into economic uncertainty.

Where in the cycle is bitcoin price? (Emily Morter/Unsplash)

Markets

Chart of the Week: Bond Market Could Be Bitcoin's 'Canary in the Coal Mine' Signal

Widening credit spreads could be sign of further trouble for risk-on positioning.

What is bond market signalling about bitcoin? (Anton Petrus, Getty Images)

Policy

SEC Staff to Reassess Biden-Era Crypto Guidance Amid Regulatory Shakeup

This review is part of efforts to ease regulatory pressure on the digital assets sector and may lead to new regulatory frameworks.

Acting SEC Chair Mark Uyeda (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Tech

Bitcoin Developer Proposes Hard Fork to Protect BTC From Quantum Computing Threats

The proposal outlines a plan to enforce a network-wide migration of BTC from legacy wallets to ones secured by post-quantum cryptography.

Scientific equation close-up (Bozhin Karaivanov / Unsplash)

Markets

PayPal Pushes Further Into Crypto by Adding Chainlink and Solana as New Offerings


The move expands PayPal and Venmo users’ access to major cryptocurrencies amid growing regulatory clarity in the U.S.

PayPal logo on iphone screen (Marques Thomas/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto Outperforms Nasdaq as BTC Becomes 'U.S. Isolation Hedge' Amid $5T Equities Carnage

The cryptocurrency market is showing resilience as U.S. equities plunge and investors look to bitcoin as a potential hedge

Bear and bull (Pixabay)

Tech

Crypto-to-Fiat App P2P.me Raises $2M from Multicoin and Coinbase Ventures

The peer-to-peer app is bringing stablecoin payments into the QR code economy.

(Shutterstock)