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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Finance

Bitcoin Hashrate May Finally Slow as Miners Face Scorching Summer Heatwaves

Hashrate for the Bitcoin network typically flattens or declines during North American summer time, industry experts say.

Celsius Network is now allowing withdrawals from some accounts after freezing the accounts last June. (Unsplash)

Finance

Telecom Giant and T-Mobile Parent Deutsche Telekom Plans to Mine Bitcoin

The company also revealed that it's running Bitcoin and Lightning network nodes.

Mika Baumeister, Unsplash

Policy

Australian Securities Exchange Gives Its First Approval of a Spot Bitcoin Listing to VanEck

The fund will provide investors exposure to bitcoin by investing in the VanEck Bitcoin Trust ('HODL') which is a United States ETF listed on the Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc (Cboe).

Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Johnny Bhalla on Unsplash)

Markets

AI-Linked Crypto Tokens Underperform as Apple's Event Fails to Impress Traders

Tokens of Render, Fetch.ai, SingularityNET and Bittensor slumped 3%-5% despite mostly flat bitcoin and broader crypto prices.

(Laurenz Heymann/Unsplash)

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Finance

Defi Protocol UwU Lend Suffers $19.3M Exploit: Arkham

The protocol was set up by Quadriga CX co-founder "Sifu."

(Kris/Pixabay)

Finance

Bitcoin ETFs, Bankruptcy Paybacks Have Given Crypto Lending a Second Wind

Crypto lending firm Ledn survived the crypto winter by being "boring, slow and safe," according to a co-founder.

Ledn co-founders Mauricio Di Bartolomeo (left) and Adam Reeds (Ledn)

Finance

Bitcoin Mining Stocks Soar Amid Takeover Frenzy

The stocks are undervalued, so miners with attractive power contracts could become M&A targets, according to Wall Street analysts.

Wall Street has bitcoin mining mergers on its mind. (Chenyu Guan/Unsplash)

News Analysis

Cathie Wood's Ether ETF Pullback Is Likely Due to Fee War

The asset manager’s name was removed from a recent document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in preparation for the launch and later confirmed that it dropped out of the race.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

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Finance

Core Scientific Rejects CoreWeave's Over $1B Buyout Offer

The board of Core Scientific rejected CoreWeave's offer to buy the miner for $5.75 per share.

Core Scientific's Marble facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Markets

Bitcoin Miners With Attractive Power Contracts Are Potential M&A Targets, JPMorgan Says

U.S. listed bitcoin miners have access to large amounts of power, making them potential takeover targets for hyperscalers and AI firms, the report said.

A Bitmain Antminer s9 board in a bitcoin mine in Norway. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)