Aoyon Ashraf

Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's Global Head of News and is responsible for all of the editorial content and strategies. 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 the University of Toronto with a degree in mining engineering. He holds ETH, BTC, and SOL that are above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000. He also holds LINK, ATOM and some other altcoins that are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Policy

Crypto Exchange Bybit Withdraws From France in Response to Regulations

"It has always been Bybit's primary objective to operate our business in compliance with all relevant rules and regulations," the company said in its post.

Bybit withdraws from France (Mantas Hesthaven / Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon's Shares Tumble After Revenue Unexpectedly Misses Wall Street's Estimates

The miner said its adjusted EBITDA swung to loss, compared to previous year's profit.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Finance

Tether Nets $5B Profits This Year, Says Its U.S. Debt Holdings Surpassed Germany's

The company said its $97 billion exposure to U.S. Treasuries would put it 18th in the ranking among countries.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

Policy

U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve to Be Funded Partly by Revaluing Fed's Gold, Draft Bill Shows

The office of Senator Cynthia Lummis, who proposed the strategic reserve at the Bitcoin Nashville conference on Saturday, shared a draft of the legislation with CoinDesk.

Senator Cynthia Lummis on stage in Nashville with a copy of her bitcoin reserve bill (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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News Analysis

Coinbase Earnings Hurt by Low Volume But Trump Could be Wild Card, Analysts Say

The exchange reports second quarter earnings after the market close on Thursday, with revenue and earnings-per-share expected to have decreased from the prior quarter.

Coinbase (PiggyBank/Unsplash)

Markets

Polymarket Whales Favor Trump as Election Betting Surges Past $400M

Traders also are skeptical about China 'unbanning' bitcoin

Bitcoin Nashville attendees queued up early on Saturday to get into the conference venue, Music City Center, ahead of former President Donald Trump's speech (Bradley Keoun)

Policy

In Donald Trump's Own Words – a Partial Transcript of His Bitcoin 2024 Speech

"You are the modern-day Edisons and Wright brothers and Carnegies and Henry Fords, and what you do in your lifetime stands a chance to outlive us all," Trump told the crypto crowd.

Former President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Policy

Trump Backs U.S. Bitcoin Reserve and Says Democrat Win Will Be Disaster for Crypto: 'Every One of You Will Be Gone'

Thousands of bitcoiners camped out for hours to see crypto's self-declared candidate on Saturday at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville.

Bitcoin price could be tied to the outcome of the U.S. election, Jefferies said. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Buys $100M BTC, Will Once Again Adopt 'Full HODL' Strategy

The miner holds over 20,000 bitcoin and plans to buy more in the open market.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Finance

Deutsche Telekom Joins RWA-Focused XDC as Infrastructure Provider in Digital Asset Push

The company already runs nodes on multiple blockchain networks and is considering bitcoin mining, its web3 head revealed last month at a conference.

Mika Baumeister, Unsplash