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

Tether Stops Support for Bitcoin Layer Omni Citing Lack of Demand

Omni was the first transport layer that Tether used in 2014.

USDT chart (CoinDesk)

Finance

PayPal to Stop Crypto Purchases in UK Until 2024

The company said the pause is due to the U.K. financial regulator’s upcoming stricter rules, which include the travel rule to combat money laundering set to take effect Sept. 1.

PayPal's headquarters (Shutterstock)

Finance

Binance to Shut Down Crypto Payments Service Amid Refocus On Core Products

The service was rolled out in March last year, in an effort to make traditional financial companies “crypto-ready.”

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Finance

Artificial Intelligence Trend is Accelerating With ‘Lion’s Share’ in the U.S.: Morgan Stanley

The banking giant said in a report that around 15% of companies quantified a revenue or cost-benefit from applying machine learning in the first half of the year.

(Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

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Finance

Visa Tests Way to Make Paying Ethereum Gas Fees Easier

The process is too complex for the masses, the company said.

Casa central de Visa en Foster City, California. (Wonderlane/Creative Commons)

Markets

Coinbase Layer 2 Base Overtakes Optimism in Daily Active Users as Friend.Tech Hype Soars

A grayed-out "airdrop" icon at the top of the Friend.Tech app suggests the platform will release a token.

Base's daily active users soar (Dune)

Policy

Worldcoin Regulatory Scrutiny Grows as Argentina Opens Investigation

The investigation began after collecting numerous data in five major jurisdictions of the country, the Argentinian Agency for Access to Public Information said.

Argentina flag (Unsplash)

Finance

Coinbase Ventures' Strategic Investment Sends Rocket Pool Token Surging

The investment branch announced today the purchase of an undisclosed amount of Rocket Pool’s native token RPL, which has jumped more than 9% in the past 24 hours.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk)

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Finance

SEC Likely to Approve Several Spot ETFs, Sparking Next Bitcoin Rally: Matrixport

A report from the firm cited how big Grayscale Bitcoin Trust was at its peak.

Up Arrows (Unsplash)

Policy

SEC Will Appeal XRP Ruling in Case Against Ripple

A federal judge ruled that while Ripple's direct sales of XRP to institutional investors violated securities law, its programmatic sales to retail investors through exchanges did not.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse  (Scott Moore/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)