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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Marchés

Stars Arena Recovered 90% of the Funds Lost to Hack After Bounty Paid

The social app on Avalanche was drained for $3 Million last week.

(Azamat E/Unsplash)

Marchés

Real Estate-Backed Stablecoin USDR De-Pegs After Treasury Was Drained of Liquid Assets

On-chain data suggests that USDR's treasury was drained of liquid assets, leading to a run on the stablecoin.

Moon’s CryptoMortgage products allows people to use their crypto as collateral for real estate. (Getty Images)

Finance

Bitcoin Mining Industry Is at a ‘Crucible Moment,’ JPMorgan Says

The bank initiates research coverage of CleanSpark (top pick), Marathon Digital, Riot Platforms and Cipher Mining.

Bitmain Antminer mining rigs (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

Juridique

EU Markets Regulator Warns of DeFi’s ‘Serious Risks’

ESMA, responsible for rulemaking under the bloc’s landmark new crypto law MiCA, is worried about new forms of market manipulation when there’s no central counterparty

The EU has passed new crypto laws (Pixabay)

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Finance

Galaxy's Head of Mining Amanda Fabiano Departed to Start Consulting Company

Fabiano’s new company will work with bitcoin mining companies including Compass Mining and Giga Energy.

Galaxy's former head of mining, Amanda Fabiano (Amanda Fabiano, modified by CoinDesk))

Juridique

Bankrupt Crypto Hedge Fund 3AC's Su Zhu Apprehended in Singapore, Liquidator Says

Co-founder of the Three Arrows Capital hedge fund was seized at Changi airport, Teneo said

Kyle Davies (left) and Su Zhu (middle). (Kyle Davies/X)

Finance

Valkyrie Gets Approval to Start Buying ETH Futures for Its Existing Bitcoin ETF

The fund's new strategy to combine ether and bitcoin will be effective formally on Oct. 3.

Valkyrie's bell-ringing in September included a guest from Tron. (Screenshot/Nasdaq.com)

Finance

Ripple Cancels Plan to Buy Fortress Trust

"While this outcome is different from what was originally planned, we’ll continue to support them and hope to work together in the future," said Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.

Ripple ad in Washington's Union Station (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Finance

Gemini Pulled $282M Earn Users' Funds From Genesis Last Year to Protect Customers

Gemini said it elected to increase its liquidity reserves owing to the market turmoil throughout the summer of 2022, following events such as the collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (Credit: Shutterstock)

Juridique

Judge Denies Temporary Release For Sam Bankman-Fried, Suggests He Could Face 'Very Long Sentence'

Bankman-Fried’s lawyers had requested that he be released for the duration of his trial to ensure that he is able to review material and speak with his counsel.

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried exiting a federal courthouse in New York last year. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)