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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Finanças

Defi Protocol UwU Lend Suffers $19.3M Exploit: Arkham

The protocol was set up by Quadriga CX co-founder "Sifu."

(Kris/Pixabay)

Finanças

Bitcoin ETFs, Bankruptcy Paybacks Have Given Crypto Lending a Second Wind

Crypto lending firm Ledn survived the crypto winter by being "boring, slow and safe," according to a co-founder.

Ledn co-founders Mauricio Di Bartolomeo (left) and Adam Reeds (Ledn)

Finanças

Bitcoin Mining Stocks Soar Amid Takeover Frenzy

The stocks are undervalued, so miners with attractive power contracts could become M&A targets, according to Wall Street analysts.

Wall Street has bitcoin mining mergers on its mind. (Chenyu Guan/Unsplash)

Análise de Notícias

Cathie Wood's Ether ETF Pullback Is Likely Due to Fee War

The asset manager’s name was removed from a recent document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in preparation for the launch and later confirmed that it dropped out of the race.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood (Marco Bello/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)

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Finanças

Core Scientific Rejects CoreWeave's Over $1B Buyout Offer

The board of Core Scientific rejected CoreWeave's offer to buy the miner for $5.75 per share.

Core Scientific's Marble facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Mercados

Bitcoin Miners With Attractive Power Contracts Are Potential M&A Targets, JPMorgan Says

U.S. listed bitcoin miners have access to large amounts of power, making them potential takeover targets for hyperscalers and AI firms, the report said.

A Bitmain Antminer s9 board in a bitcoin mine in Norway. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Mercados

Riot Platforms Falls After the Bitcoin Miner Is Targeted by Short-Seller Kerrisdale

The firm has previously targeted MicroStrategy.

A close-up of one of Riot's mining rigs. (Riot Blockchain)

Mercados

Ether Price Poised for Supply 'Shock' as ETFs May Attract $4B Inflows in Five Months, K33 Research Says

ETH will start outperforming bitcoin following the ETF launch after almost two and a half years of underperformance, the report said.

Digitally rendered Ethereum logo (Unsplash)

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Finanças

Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific Surges After AI Deal, Report of Over $1B Buyout Offer From CoreWeave

Cloud computing provider CoreWeave made an offer to buy the bitcoin miner for $5.75 per share, according to Bloomberg.

Core Scientific's Marble facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Tecnologia

Bitcoin Layer 2 Ark Protocol's Team Forms New Firm as Lightning Network Competitor

Layer-2 protocol Ark is built to allow off-chain payments in a way that avoids what creator Burak Kecli referred to as "inbound liquidity" problem of Lightning.

Ark (Greg Reese/Pixabay)