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

Crypto VC Firm Polychain Capital Raises $200M for Fourth Fund: Fortune

The crypto-focused firm has also cut three members of its research and development staff, Fortune reported.

Polychain CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

Ripple Court Ruling Unlikely to Impact Celsius Wind-Up, Crypto Lender’s Counsel Says

Crypto securities ruling could impact pricing of CEL token but won’t affect restructuring plans, the counsel said.

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Finance

Arkham's Token Debuts at $0.75 After Being Sold for $0.05 in Binance Launchpad

Users locked up a total of $2.4 billion in the launchpad to secure a better chance at receiving the full allocation.

Base completes security audits

Finance

Binance Ends Argentina’s Soccer Association Partnership Citing Lack of Compliance

Binance had signed a five-year contract with the Argentine soccer team, the reigning world champion.

(Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Markets

Barclays Joins Wall Street Analysts Calling XRP Ruling Positive for Coinbase

Wall Street banks including J.P. Morgan also saw the ruling as a positive outcome for the crypto exchange.

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Finance

Crypto Distress Prompts Fir Tree, a Hedge Fund, to Seek Profit From Turmoil

“Fir Tree is at its best when we identify opportunities that are mispriced, dislocated or complex. Rarely do we encounter situations that are all three, but that is precisely what we are seeing in digital assets right now,” Fir Tree said.

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Markets

Coinbase, Other Crypto Exchanges Embrace XRP After Court Ruling

U.S. federal court ruled on Thursday that sale of XRP tokens on exchanges and through algorithms did not constitute investment contracts.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Getty Images)

Policy

Ripple, Crypto Industry Score Partial Win in SEC Court Fight Over XRP

Institutional sales of the tokens violated federal securities laws, but programmatic sales did not, a court ruled.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Markets

Elon Musk's New ChatGPT Competitor Boosts AI-Related Crypto Tokens

Tokens such as AGIX and FET saw modest bump after Musk announced new Artificial Intelligence (AI) company "xAI" to take on ChatGPT.

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Policy

U.S. Department of Justice Arrests Engineer Over $9M Crypto Theft

The DOJ alleged that Shakeeb Ahmed stole $9 million from a crypto exchange that operates on Solana, through a flash loan attack last year.

Department of Justice (Shutterstock)