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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Piyasalar

NFT Mania Is Back? Maybe Not, but a CryptoPunk Just Exchanged Hands for a Record $56.3M

Punk 1563 changed hands for 24,000 ETH, a huge markup versus recent pricing.

CryptoPunk 1563 just sold for a record $56.3 million. (CryptoPunks)

Piyasalar

Binance's Crypto Market Share Sinks to 4-Year Low

While Binance remains a giant in crypto trading, its volumes dropped over 20% in September versus the previous month, while rival Crypto.com's surged over 40%.

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finans

Bitcoin Not a Safe Haven From Geopolitical Risks, but Still Buy the Dip: Standard Chartered

Risks stemming from the Middle East conflict are likely to push bitcoin below $60K before the weekend, the report said.

Standard Chartered logo on the side of a building.

Finans

Fan Tokens Have Much Larger Market Than NFTs, Says Chiliz CEO as Blockchain Prepares New Memecoin 'Pepper'

Chiliz CEO Alexandre Dreyfus called out the disproportionate hype around NFTs in comparison to fan tokens in an interview with CoinDesk.

16:9 Chiliz CEO Alexandre Dreyfus in Singapore during Token2049 (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

Reklam

Politika

Binance Founder Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao Is a Free Man

Zhao, who has been in a halfway house since late August, was released on Friday.

Binance's CZ (Twitter/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finans

PayPal Enables U.S. Business Accounts to Buy, Hold and Sell Crypto

The service won't be available to New York state businesses in the beginning.

PayPal HQ (Shutterstock)

Politika

Former Government Employees, Compliance Officers Rally for Detained Binance Executive

Tigran Gambaryan has been detained in Nigeria since February.

A group of former prosecutors and government employees rallied in front of the United Nations in support of Tigran Gambaryan, who's been detained in Nigeria since February. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finans

Visa to Help Banks Issue Fiat-Backed Tokens on Ethereum Via New Tokenized Asset Platform

Visa's new Platform will enable the development of fiat-backed tokens powered by smart contracts.

visa, credit cards

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Politika

Turkey Shelves Additional Plans to Tax Stocks and Crypto: Bloomberg

"We don’t have a stocks tax on our agenda," Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz told Bloomberg, including the country's plans that also affect crypto.

(Getty Images)

Politika

'We are Running Out of Time': U.S. House Democrat Urges Stablecoin Bill Compromise

Rep. Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, pitched a "grand bargain" to finish a stablecoin bill this year.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler took vigorous Republican criticism on his agency's crypto record at a hearing. (screen capture, House Financial Services Committee)