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

Google Cloud to Help Web3 Builders Fast-Track Their Startups

The initiative will come with technical and monetary support for early-stage Web3 developers.

(Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Wealth Manager Onramp Taps CoinDesk Indices to Create Customized Portfolios

The partnership will provide advisers with a wider range of options for shaping successful portfolios.

(Onramp)

Finance

CoinDesk Indices Joins With Luno to Help South African Users Track Crypto Investment Bundles

The partnership between the CoinDesk subsidiary and crypto exchange will see the release of "Luno Large Cap Bundle," helping customers manage and maintain different investment strategies.

Luno logo (Luno)

Finance

Amber Group's Ex-U.S. CEO Raazi Joins EDG, a Digital-Asset Structured Product Firm

Enhanced Digital Group (EDG) is helping bridge the gap between TradFi and digital currencies, and Cactus Raazi brings decades of Wall Street experience including time at Goldman Sachs.

Cactus Raazi (LinkedIn)

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital's CFO to Retire After One Year

The search for a new chief financial officer is already in progress.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel interview at Bitcoin conference in Miami (CoinDesk)

Policy

Canada to Ask Pension Funds to Disclose Crypto Exposure

The government budget for 2023 indicates the OSFI will consult with federally regulated financial institutions on guidelines for publicly disclosing their exposure to crypto-assets.

(Sebastiaan Stam/Unsplash)

Finance

Playboy Lost $4.9M on Ether It Accepted as NFT Payments

The company’s net carrying value of digital assets was $327,000 as of December.

Playboy logo (Mathew Imaging/WireImage)

Finance

Investors Flock to Tokenized Diamond as Crypto Banking Crisis Props Hard Assets

Sales of tokenized diamonds surged 300% last weekend, when three banks collapsed and investors scrambled to sell their USDC stablecoins.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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Finance

Payments Processor Stripe Secures $6.5B in Funding at $50B Valuation

Stripe's valuation has fallen about 47% from its 2021 fund raise of $95 billion.

John Collison, president of Stripe (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)

Finance

Banking Crisis in U.S. Likely to Push Crypto Firms Offshore

Switzerland, Lichtenstein and island jurisdictions are among the potential benefactors of the trend.

Author and investor Tatiana Koffman is just one among many who have turned to bitcoin amid a plague of bank runs – possibly the beginning of what she has described as the "Great Reset." (K8/Unsplash)