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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Policy

Binance in Talks to Pay More Than $4B to End U.S. Criminal Case; CZ Could Still Face Charges: Bloomberg

A resolution could come as soon as the end of this month, Bloomberg reports.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Pyth Token Debuts Near $500M Valuation as 90,000 Wallets Receive Airdrop

The network has $1.5 billion in total value secured across 120 protocols.

Pyth issues token airdrop (ian dooley/Unsplash)

Finance

Tether Freezes $225M Linked to Human Trafficking Syndicate Amid DOJ Investigation

The $225 million was related to the "pig butchering" scam.

Tether freezes $225 million worth of its stablecoin (Jorge Salvador/Unsplash)

Finance

Luxor Starts New Business to Make Shipping of Bitcoin Mining Rigs Faster

The bitcoin mining services firm had previously shipped over $245 million worth of equipment to more than 30 countries.

Supply Chain (Shutterstock)

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Finance

Jump Trading, Wormhole Part Ways Amid Tough Crypto Market: Bloomberg

Although Jump has been scaling back its crypto-related operations, the reason for the business' parting of ways remains unclear, Bloomberg reported.

Jump Crypto President Kanav Kariya (Danny Nelson)

Finance

Crypto Lender Hodlnaut to Be Liquidated, Court Filing Shows

A winding up order was filed by Hodlnaut's liquidators on May of this year.

(Sasun Bughdary/Unsplash)

Tech

Venture Capital Lightspeed Faction Starts $285M Fund for Blockchain Startups

The new fund will focus mainly on early-stage crypto projects, participating in seed-stage and Series A funding rounds.

two fingers adding a coin to one pile of coins among many

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital Beats Q3 Earnings Estimates, but Misses on Revenue

The company sees 2023 mining power guidance reaching 26 EH/s, making it the largest bitcoin mining firm in terms of hash rate.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

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Finance

Trust Wallet's TWT Falls as Parent Company Binance Releases Web3 Wallet

Binance acquired Trust Wallet in 2018 in a deal that included cash and BNB tokens, which at the time were worth $14.80.

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

Finance

Binance Rolls Out Its First Ever Self-Custody Web3 Wallet

Users can download and access the wallet through Binance's app.

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