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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Policy

Crypto Miners Lobby U.S. Lawmakers to Counter Environmental 'Misunderstanding'

Dozens of mining firms came to Washington to steer the policy narrative away from negative environmental claims and make a case for mining as an economic and security boon.

Perianne Boring, CEO of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, led a group of crypto miners to meetings with members of the U.S. House of Representatives this week. (Scott Moore/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Policy

Billionaire Ken Griffin's Citadel Securities Denies 'Ridiculous' Claim That It Tanked Do Kwon's Terraform

Citadel said the claims by Terraform was filed to "deflect attention" from its alleged charges.

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon (CoinDesk TV)

Finance

Euroclear Unveils RWA Tokenization Service With World Bank's 100M Euros Digital Bond Issuance

The digital bond was issued on R3's Corda blockchain, while global bank Citi and investment manager TD Securities assisted in the issuance.

The World Bank Group sign in Washington, D.C. (Victorgrigas)

Finance

Coinbase, Bitcoin Miners Extend Gains as BTC Surges on BlackRock ETF Hopes

Shares of Coinbase (COIN), MicroStrategy (MSTR) and Marathon Digital (MARA) climbed more than 13% as bitcoin (BTC) topped $34,000.

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Markets

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Sells 2% of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Holdings as BTC Rallies

The fund also sold about $3.3 million worth of Coinbase shares (COIN) and bought $2.4 million shares of Robinhood (HOOD).

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

Markets

Large Crypto Trader's $7M LINK Deposits to Binance Signals Profit-Taking as Token Hits 17-Month High

LINK surged 9% to $11 Monday, posting one of the best monthly returns among large-cap cryptocurrencies with a 43% gain.

LINK price on Oct. 23 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Mining Stocks Rally as BTC Holds Above $30K Despite Looming Halving Concerns

The reward for mining new BTC will be cut in half soon, making it hard for less-efficient operators to survive.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Bit Digital Diversifies Into AI for 'Substantially Higher Margin' Than Mining

The firm is looking for a "reliable income stream ... that is uncorrelated to bitcoin prices."

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Finance

Coinbase's Grewal Is 'Quite Hopeful' That Bitcoin Spot ETFs Will be Approved

Grewal said in a CNBC interview that the SEC approvals of the ETF applications could be coming soon.

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Policy

SEC Drops Charges Against Ripple CEO Garlinghouse, Chairman Larsen

The regulator had included them as defendants in its securities violation case revolving around XRP transactions, and the agency now says it's just pursuing the central Ripple case.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Kevin Dietsch/Getty and Scott Moore/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)