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

The Biggest BONK Whale Just Invested in 'Ycombinator for Solana'

What started as a joke is turning into real business for Solana.

A BONK ad in Salt Lake City (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

U.S. Drilling Down on Crypto Miners' Energy Use Draws Ire From Community

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is starting a survey to track the electricity consumption of crypto miners in the U.S.

(Jacob Lund/Shutterstock)

Finance

Larry David Calls Himself an 'Idiot' for Doing Infamous FTX Super Bowl Ad

Sam Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency exchange infamously collapsed months after the commercial.

Larry David on Super Bowl ad for Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX: 'Like an Idiot, I Did It' (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

Finance

Crypto Startup Velar Plans Perpetual Swaps Exchange for Bitcoin DeFi After Raising $3.5M

"Bitcoin DeFi is just too nascent right now," CEO Mithil Thakore said. But that's beginning to change.

Heading of Bitcoin Whitepaper

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Finance

Celsius' Bitcoin Mining Assets to Restart as New Firm Prepares to Go Public

The new company, Ionic Digital, expects to hit mining capacity of 12.7 exahash per second (EH/s).

Ionic's CEO Matt Prusak (Ionic Digital)

Policy

Celsius to Distribute $3B Crypto to Creditors as Firm Emerges From Bankruptcy

The distribution will be made through PayPal and Coinbase.

Celsius to distribute $3 billions of crypto to creditors as firm emerges from bankruptcy.

Policy

FTX Expects to Fully Repay Customers but Won't Restart Defunct Crypto Exchange

An initial surge in the FTT token after the news turned negative, leaving FTT plummeting 15% today.

Sam Bankman-Fried (Liz Napolitano/CoinDesk)

Finance

Global X Pulls Out of Spot Bitcoin ETF Application

The exchange-traded funds (ETFs) provider was not among the 11 spot bitcoin ETFs that received regulatory approval on January 11.

Exit sign (Paul Brennan/Pixabay)

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Policy

UK Police Seize Nearly $1.8B of Bitcoin From Investment Fraud in China: FT

A London court heard of the seizure Tuesday as part of the trial of Jian Wen, who is accused of laundering bitcoin on behalf of her former employer, Yadi Zhang, FT reported.

Crime scene tape (geralt/Pixabay)

Finance

New York Community Bancorp Shares Tumble After Earnings Miss, 71% Dividend Cut

The bank took over defunct Signature Bank's non crypto-related deposits last year.

Bitcoin slides back into familiar range (Shutterstock)