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

FTX Gets Court Approval to Sell $873M Worth of Grayscale, Bitwise Trust Assets

FTX held shares of five Grayscale Trusts and one Bitwise trust, according to an earlier court filing. The crypto firm Galaxy won court approval for an expansion of its mandate in helping to dispose of assets.

(CoinDesk)

Finance

Jack Dorsey Aims to Create Anti-Censorship Bitcoin Mining Pool With New Startup

The company said has it created "only non-custodial" mining pool where miners get the new bitcoin block reward directly from the network.

Jack Dorsey speaks at Consensus 2018 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Blockchain Messaging Platform Wormhole Raises $225M at $2.5B Valuation

Wormhole, which was recently separated from parent Jump Trading Group after it scaled back its crypto operations, is a developer platform which allows different blockchain networks to communicate with each other.

Wormhole (Genty/Pixabay)

Policy

Genesis-DCG Propose to Settle Lawsuit: Bankruptcy Filing

DCG has paid about $227.3 million to Genesis so far and plans to pay another $275 million it owes by April.

Barry Silbert. CEO & Founder Digital Currency Group (DCG)

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Finance

Coinbase CEO Says Binance Settlement Will Turn the Page on Crypto's 'Bad Actors'

Armstrong said the recent enforcement action against bad actors such as Binance or former crypto exchange FTX could “close the chapter” on that part of crypto’s history.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (Coinbase)

Policy

Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao Steps Down From Binance.US Board

CZ will transfer his voting shares to a proxy, the U.S. affiliate of the global exchange said.

Changpeng Zhao ,CEO of Binance, at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

Policy

Binance Founder CZ Stuck in U.S. for the Moment

Changpeng Zhao was set to return to the UAE, where his wife and children live, but a district judge stayed this part of his bond release for now.

(Photos from Smorshedi/Wikimedia Commons and CoinDesk/Flickr, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Standard Chartered China Offering Exchange Services for Digital Yuan

The bank will give customers access to the digital RBM's interconnection platform, offering recharge and redemption.

Standard Chartered (Shutterstock)

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Policy

Binance Founder Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao Isn't a Flight Risk, His Attorneys Say

The Department of Justice wants him to stay in the U.S. prior to sentencing.

CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao at Consensus Singapore 2018 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Tether, Bitfinex to Drop Opposition to New York Freedom of Information Law Request

The firms said dropping the opposition doesn't mean a "wholesale release" of all documents.

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)