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

MicroStrategy Buys $615M Worth Additional BTC, Pushing Holdings to $5.9B

MicroStrategy's used almost all of its recent at-the-market shares sales to buy an additional 14,620 bitcoin.

MicroStrategy Executive Director Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Finance

Solana Rally Sees FTX's Holdings Grow to $4.2B, Setting Claims Market on Fire

FTX’s SOL holdings are worth over $4.2 billion in today’s money, up from $1.16 billion from earlier this year.

Solana Spaces (Solana)

Policy

Financial Regulators Reiterate Call for Legislation to Address Crypto Risks

The Financial Stability Oversight Council met Thursday, releasing a report detailing all of its concerns from the past year.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Finance

Early Ethereum Backers Cyber.Fund to Invest $100M in 'Cybernetic Economy'

Cyber.Fund, which also backed Cosmos, Solana and Polkadot, is focused growing the "cybernetic economy," in which blockchain is the bedrock

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

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Markets

Bitcoin Halts at $41K as Traders Eye Fed Rate Decision; AVAX Flips Dogecoin as Altcoins Jump

Investors will monitor Fed Chair Jerome Powell's press conference Wednesday for signs of potential rate cuts next year.

Bitcoin price today (CoinDesk)

Markets

DeFi Platform Conic Finance's CNC Token Surges 50% as the Protocol Plots Comeback After Hack

Conic Finance was hacked in July draining roughly $3.6 million worth of ether from the protocol.

Conic Finance lets liquidity providers gain exposure to multiple pools on DeFi platform Curve (Conic Finance)

Policy

Binance P2P Trading Platform Halts Ruble Support Following Russia Exit

Customers are free to withdraw or transfer funds and continue trading via Binance Russia's new owner CommEX, the company said Monday.

Two large stacked blocks displaying Binance's logo at a trade show.

Finance

Digital Asset Brokerage Firm Nonco Raises $10M Seed Funding Led by Valor Capital, Hack VC

The firm says it has already seen $6 billion in volume in Americas since its debut in April.

Fernando Martinez, CEO of Nonco. (Nonco)

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Finance

Bitcoin Halving Is Poised to Unleash Darwinism on Miners

Strong miners might be about to eat the weak ones as the reward for mining BTC gets cut in half, experts say.

A man trapped in the ocean. (nikko macaspac/Unsplash)

Markets

Ether, Solana Hit 19-Month Highs as Bitcoin Rally Halts with Traders Fearing 'Bull Trap'

BitMex founder Arthur Hayes speculated about SOL hitting near $100 in a bullish weekend for altcoins.

Solana price (CoinDesk)