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

Ex-Valkyrie CEO Leah Wald to Take Reins of Crypto Investment Firm Cypherpunk

Cypherpunk recently bought SOL tokens and has investment in Animoca Brands.

Leah Wald, President and CEO of SOL Strategies. (SOL Strategies)

Finance

Stablecoins, Miners Outperform as $18B Gets Wiped Out From Crypto in June: JPMorgan

Spot bitcoin ETFs saw their second worst month since launching in the U.S., with an estimated $662 million of net outflows, the report said.

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Finance

Private Equity Giants Are Circling Bitcoin Miners on AI Allure

Private equity firms are seeing value in partnering with bitcoin miners to help with AI computing after Core Scientific signed a 200MW deal with CoreWeave in June, the company’s CEO said in an exclusive interview with CoinDesk.

Lending money handing over paying cash (Shutterstock)

Markets

Kamala Harris' Odds of Winning Democratic Nomination Surge on Polymarket

Supporters are calling on the vice president to step up following boss Biden's doddering debate debacle.

COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND - JUNE 24: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks on reproductive rights at Ritchie Coliseum on the campus of the University of Maryland on June 24, 2024 in College Park, Maryland. Harris is speaking on the two year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and struck down federal abortion protections. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark to Buy Peer GRIID in $155M Deal

The acquisition will be all-stock based and has been approved by the boards of both companies.

Merger (TheDigitalArtist/Pixabay)

Finance

VanEck Files for Solana ETF, SOL Rises 8%

The filing is the first Solana ETF to be filed in the U.S. and follows six days after a similar product filing in Canada.

VanEck

Finance

Decentralized Exchange Bluefin to Roll Out Token After Securing $17M in Total Funding

The exchange says it has already seen more than $25 billion in trading volume since the start of the year, with monthly revenues topping $1 million.

Bluefin v2 (Bluefin)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Mined $15M Worth Kaspa Tokens to Diversify Revenue

The miner has mined 93 million of KAS tokens since Sept. 2023.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

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Markets

Bitcoin Falls After U.S. Sends $240M Worth of Silk Road-Related BTC to Coinbase

About 4k bitcoin had been seized from narcotics trafficker Banmeet Singh at his January 2024 trial.

Risks of a deeper pullback are growing for BTC (mana5280/Unsplash)

Markets

Blast Token Debuts at $3B Value as 17% of Supply Airdropped to Early Adopters

Blast is the second largest layer 2 network with $1.6 billion in TVL.

Pyth issues token airdrop (ian dooley/Unsplash)