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

Ether Could Avoid Designation as a Security With Centralization Risk Easing, JPMorgan Says

Staking platform Lido’s share in staked ether has continued to fall, reducing concerns about concentration in the Ethereum network, the report said.

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Finance

Binance Stops Support for Bitcoin NFTs Citing 'Streamlining' of Offered Products

Users have been prompted to withdraw Bitcoin NFTs from Binance by May 18.

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Digital Asset Platform With Ex-Goldman Partner as Co-Founder Gets Bahrain Crypto License

ARP Digital says it's the "first and only central bank-licensed OTC service provider specialized in digital-asset structured products."

Bahrain (Ajmal Shams/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Bitget's Wallet Team Joins Meme Coin Hype, Issues Token That Rises 14,000%

The token's rise comes alongside a wave of trading volume.

MOEW chart (TradingView)

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Finance

Crypto Venture Capital Fundraising Jumped Over 50% in March Amid Rally

Most capital went into infrastructure and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, data by RootData shows.

Venture Capital  (Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Venture Capital Firm Paradigm Looking to Raise Up to $850M for New Fund: Bloomberg

The VC is looking to raise between $750-$850 million, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar.

Paradigm co-founder Fred Ehrsam (Brady Dale/CoinDesk)

Finance

Ethereum Could Face 'Hidden Risks' From Ballooning Restaking Market: Coinbase

Restaking has grown into the second-largest DeFi sector on the Ethereum blockchain and is likely to become a core part of the network’s infrastructure, the report said.

Staking (Shutterstock)

Finance

Telegram's Pivot to TON Payments for Ads Boosts Toncoin

The messaging app's switch to TON from Euro creates a circular economy for the closely-linked crypto.

Toncoin rises amid potential Telegram IPO (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)

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Policy

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentencing: U.S. Attorney Damian Williams' Statement

"As a result of his unprecedented fraud, Bankman-Fried faces 25 years in prison, forfeiture of over a billion dollars and restitution to his victims."

(Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/Modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum's Rising Validator Count Is Causing Concerns, Fidelity Digital Assets Says

Future roadmap upgrades for the network will become more difficult with a large validator set, the report said.

Ethereum's rising validator count is causing technical capacity and centralization concerns, Fidelity Digital Assets says (Koushik Pal/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)