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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Markets

DeFi Project Parrot Holds Contentious Vote on Future of $70M Treasury

The redemption plan for the protocol appears to heavily favor employees and Parrot’s venture investors.

Birds in Costa Rica

Web3

Tokenized Collectibles Platform Americana Is Bringing High-End Physical Items On-Chain

Backed by Alexis Ohanian and OpenSea, the platform is creating blockchain-based solutions for several pain points associated with buying and selling high-end physical collectibles.

Americana's "concierge vaulting" facility. (Americana)

Policy

U.S. House Republicans Introduce Crypto Oversight Bill With Changes From June Draft

The revised bill excludes a host of traditional securities from the "digital asset" category, which some say bodes ill for DeFi.

(Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock)

Finance

FTX Users Potentially Targeted in Possible Phishing Attack as Bankruptcy Claims Deadline Nears

FTX users have until Sept. 29 to file their bankruptcy claims.

FTX users prompted to reset password (FTX)

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Finance

Solana Foundation, Polygon Lead $30M Fundraise for Web3 Firm Cosmic Wire

The startup offers metaverse creation tools and a list of general blockchain infrastructure solutions.

hand holding $20 bill in front of trees

Finance

Polychain Capital Co-Leads $25M Fundraise for Manta Network Developer

The cryptographic development project, p0x, received a valuation of $500 million.

Lending money handing over paying cash (Shutterstock)

Finance

Latin American Crypto Firm Bitso Joins Stellar Network to Boost International USDC Payments

Companies from all over the world will be able to make transactions to Argentina, Colombia and Mexico.

Payments network built on Sui (Steve Johnson/Unsplash)

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)

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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.

(Pixabay)

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