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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Markets

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Hits Record Volume of Over $1.3B for Second Consecutive Day

Spot bitcoin ETFs again booked a strong day, recording over $2 billion in daily trading volume but slightly fell short of Monday's record.

(Jim Henderson, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Ether Tops Bitcoin as the Largest Crypto Asset for Institutions: Bybit Research

Ether is now the largest single asset held by institutions, with Bybit speculating that this may be because of a potential upward swing from the Dencun upgrade

Bull and Bear (nosheep/Pixabay)

Finance

Ether's Bitcoin Beating Rally Not Just Because of Potential ETF Approval: Bernstein

The amount of ether held on exchanges is at an all-time low of 11%, a sign that more of the cryptocurrency is being locked up for DeFi, the report said.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. (CoinDesk)

Tech

Bitcoin Miner Marathon to Start 'Slipstream' to Make Complex BTC Transactions Faster

Marathon will be the first publicly traded miner to offer such a service by utilizing its own mining pool.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

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Finance

Retail Investors Were Likely Behind The Crypto Market Rally in February, JPMorgan Says

Increased retail activity comes ahead of the three main catalysts in the coming months: the bitcoin halving, the Dencun upgrade of the Ethereum blockchain and the potential approval of spot ether ETFs, the report said.

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Markets

S&P Global Just Made Ethereum's Centralization Risk a TradFi Concern

Institutional interest in digital assets means that crypto terms such as 'Nakamoto Coefficient' are now mainstream issues.

Digitally rendered Ethereum logo (Unsplash)

Finance

AI-Linked Crypto Tokens Surge After Nvidia Sees 'Tipping Point'

AI tokens outperform the CoinDesk 20 index, as crypto traders bet on solid Nvidia earnings and outlook.

(Shutterstock)

Tech

Former Fidelity International Digital Assets Executive Joins Advisory Board of Ethereum L2 Layer N

Luc Froehlich will help guide Layer N's Real World Asset (RWA), TradFi, and tokenization strategies.

Luc Froehlich (Fidelity International)

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Nvidia's Hotly Anticipated Earnings May 'Trigger' Bitcoin and Crypto Correction, Analyst Says

'The most important stock on Earth' could disappoint on a weak PC market and AI saturation, with Wall Street wanting more from the GPU giant, pulling down crypto and equities, QCP Capital said.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (Nvidia)

Finance

JPMorgan Analyst Criticizes Coinbase's Lack of Insights Into Its ETF Business

Coinbase reported strong fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday, partly driven by the launch of the ten spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

(Alpha Photo/Flickr)