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

Alan Howard-Backed Elwood Technologies in Talks to Sell Part of the Business: Sources

Elwood is focusing on its existing portfolio management and risk management services and less on the trading side, one source said.

(Markus Spiske/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital Signs Deal With Kenya to Invest in Green Energy Projects

The company will help monetize stranded energy in the African country and help manage its renewable energy production.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Finance

Ether ETF Listing Approval Sees Billions Poured Into Restaking Protocol Ether.Fi

The protocol now has $5.4 billion in total value locked (TVL).

Ether.Fi CEO Mike Silagadze (CoinDesk, modified using PhotoMosh)

Markets

Wild Bitcoin, Ether Price Swings Amid Spot ETH ETF Decision Trigger $350M Liquidations

U.S. regulators approved listing spot ETH ETFs but have not yet cleared to trade.

Ether (ETH) price on May 23 (CoinDesk)

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Finance

Ether Volatility Expected as Traders Flood Exchanges With $231M of ETH Amid ETF Hopes

The surge in deposits comes after a 22% rally in ether spurred by hopes of a spot ETF approval.

Ethereum net flows (CryptoQuant)

Markets

Gala Games Hacker Returns $23M in ETH; Founder Proposes 'Buy and Burn'

Gala investor DWF Labs also said that it had purchased 28 million GALA tokens "to alleviate market selling pressures."

Jason Brink, President of Blockchain, Gala Games, at Consensus (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

Solana's SOL Could Hit $200 By Month End, Hedge Fund Founder Says

The fifth-largest cryptocurrency is benefitting from multiple catalysts, including bustling meme coin and DeFi activity, upcoming network upgrade and increasing interest in restaking arriving to the ecosystem.

Solana price over the past week (CoinDesk)

Policy

Biden Order to Halt China-Tied Bitcoin Mine Beside Nuke Base Came as U.S. Firm Just Bought it

President Biden's emergency order to halt the Chinese-tied mining on the doorstep of a nuclear-missile base hit days after mining giant CleanSpark struck a deal to buy the property.

(White House, modified by CoinDesk)

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Markets

Bitcoin Mining Cost Drops to $45K as Inefficient Miners Exit: JPMorgan

The bank sees limited upside for the bitcoin price in the near term due to a number of headwinds.

(Shutterstock)

Policy

Sweeping ‘Bitcoin Rights’ Bill Becomes Law in Oklahoma

The new laws protect Oklahomans’ right to self-custody their crypto and prevent the state and local governments from banning crypto mining.

Oklahoma's new laws protect Oklahomans’ right to self-custody their crypto and prevent the state and local governments from banning crypto mining (Unsplash)