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

In Bitcoin ETF Battle, Grayscale Is Bringing 'a Gun to a Knife Fight'

The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust's (GBTC) $27 billion of bitcoin and $350 million of daily volume gives Grayscale an advantage versus BlackRock and other wannabe rivals, according to Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas.

Michael Sonnenshein (CoinDesk)

Finance

BlackRock, Valkyrie Name Authorized Participants Including JPMorgan for Bitcoin ETF

BlackRock will use J.P. Morgan and Jane Street as their authorized participants. Valkyrie has also named Jane Street in addition to Cantor Fitzgerald.

BlackRock headquarters (Shutterstock)

Policy

Binance's CZ Denied Permission to Travel by U.S. Judge for the Second Time

Zhao has requested permission to travel to the UAE, where his three children reside.

Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao (CoinDesk, modified by PhotoMosh)

Markets

Crypto Stocks, Bitcoin Miners Sell-Off as Profit-Taking Caps Explosive Year-End

Bitcoin slipped below $42,000 on Friday, stalling below its yearly high.

Bitcoin price today (CoinDesk)

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Policy

India's Local Crypto and Web3 Advocacy Body Asked for Action Against Offshore Entities: Source

Bharat Web3 Association's (BWA) Chairman wrote the letter to the Indian government on Dec. 16.

New Delhi, India (Unsplash)

Policy

India to Block URLs of 9 Offshore Exchanges Including Binance After Issuing Compliance 'Show Cause' Notices

Binance, KuCoin, Huobi, Kraken, Gate.io, Bittrex, Bitstamp, MEXC Global and Bitfinex are the nine exchanges.

(L-R) Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India and Nirmala Sitharaman, Indian Finance Minister at the G20 Annual Meetings, in Washington DC in October 2022. (Indian Ministry of Finance)

Markets

MicroStrategy Buys $615M Worth Additional BTC, Pushing Holdings to $5.9B

MicroStrategy's used almost all of its recent at-the-market shares sales to buy an additional 14,620 bitcoin.

MicroStrategy Executive Director Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Finance

Solana Rally Sees FTX's Holdings Grow to $4.2B, Setting Claims Market on Fire

FTX’s SOL holdings are worth over $4.2 billion in today’s money, up from $1.16 billion from earlier this year.

Solana Spaces (Solana)

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Policy

Financial Regulators Reiterate Call for Legislation to Address Crypto Risks

The Financial Stability Oversight Council met Thursday, releasing a report detailing all of its concerns from the past year.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Finance

Early Ethereum Backers Cyber.Fund to Invest $100M in 'Cybernetic Economy'

Cyber.Fund, which also backed Cosmos, Solana and Polkadot, is focused growing the "cybernetic economy," in which blockchain is the bedrock

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)