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

OpenSea Gets 'Wells Notice' From SEC, Which Calls NFTs Sold on Platform 'Securities'

"We're shocked the SEC would make such a sweeping move against creators and artists," says CEO of OpenSea.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Mining Is So Rough a Miner Adopted Michael Saylor's Successful BTC Strategy

Marathon Digital sold bonds to fund bitcoin purchases, following the route Saylor's MicroStrategy has taken to big stock market gains, as mining profits dwindle.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, left, and Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Trump Releases Fourth Drop of His NFT Trading Cards

The new collection will offer buyers a piece of the candidate’s suit from his debate with President Joe Biden.

Donald J. Trump at a rally (Gerd Altmann, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Crypto Startup Backed by Likes of Dragonfly Aims to Create Market to Trade Airdrop-Related Points

Rumpel Labs seeking to create efficient secondary markets, going live in mid-September.

Josh Levine (left), co-founder & CTO; Kenton Prescott, co-founder & CEO (Rumpel Labs)

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Policy

Sam Altman's Worldcoin Violated Data Policies, Colombia Regulator Says

Worldcoin is currently collecting data of individuals with its Orb device in 25 locations of the Latin American country.

Colombia

Tech

Fabric, Startup Building 'VPU' Chips for Cryptography, Raises $33M

The fundraising, co-led by Blockchain Capital and 1kx, will be used to "build computing chips, software and cryptographic algorithms," the company said.

Fabric Cryptography team (Fabric Cryptography)

Markets

Bitcoin Mining Profitability Fell to All Time Lows in August, JPMorgan Analyst Says

U.S.-listed miners' share of the network hashrate increased to 26% this month, the highest level on record, the report said.

Bitmain Antminer mining rigs (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

Markets

Stablecoin Supply Growth Isn't Eating Into Crypto Market Share: JPMorgan

The share of stablecoins versus total cryptocurrency market capitalization is relatively unchanged this year, the report said.

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News Analysis

Wall Street Agrees Crypto Is 'Clearly' A Huge Election Issue, But Still Divided on Who Is Best for Industry

“One thing that’s clear is that crypto seems to be at a scale and importance level where it is a real issue in politics nowadays," said Christopher Jensen, head of digital assets at Franklin Templeton.

(Phil Hearing/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Price May Turn Lower as Crypto Exchanges See $1B USDT Withdrawal: IntoTheBlock

The previous two occasions when exchanges saw similar USDT outflows earlier this year occurred near local tops in bitcoin's price.

Bitcoin price on Aug 14 (CoinDesk)