Aoyon Ashraf

Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's managing editor for Breaking News. 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 University of Toronto with a degree in mining engineering. He holds ETH and BTC, as well as ALGO, ADA, SOL, OP and some other altcoins which are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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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)

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.

(Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

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)

Tech

Former FTX.US President’s New Venture Is Seeking to Harness AI for Crypto Trading

Brett Harrison’s new firm, Architect, aims to be an one-stop platform for institutional-grade crypto trading.

Brett Harrison (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Storage Token Storj Rallies 43% Overnight as Trading Volume Surges

The decentralized cloud storage protocol has seen its market value double this week.

Arrow Up (Unsplash)

Tech

Poly Network Attacker Issues 'Worthless' Billions in SHIB, BNB, BUSD in Latest Crypto Hack

An estimated $4 billion worth of malicious token issuances on PolyNetwork will not bear much money for attackers due to low liquidity and security precautions.

(Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

Markets

Binance’s Institutional Clients Remain Optimistic on Crypto Amid Tough Market

63.5% of respondents said they are positive on the outlook of crypto for the next year and 88% said they are optimistic for the next decade, according to a recent survey by the exchange.

(Binance).

Web3

Warner Music Group Partners With Polygon on Blockchain Music Accelerator

The chosen projects will receive funding from both WMG and Polygon Labs and will also be eligible for mentorship and networking opportunities.

(Artur Debat/Getty Images)

Finance

TrueUSD Stablecoin Has $26k of Funds at ‘U.S. Depository Halting Withdrawals,’ Reserve Report Says

The stablecoin issuer said last week that it had “no exposure” to the failed crypto custodian Prime Trust.

Beldex raises $25 million with a new DWF Labs partnership (Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Investment Sentiment Turned Bullish After Largest Weekly Fund Inflow in a Year

The total digital asset inflows was $199 million, reversing nearly half of the previous nine consecutive weeks of outflows.

Weekly fund flow (CoinShares)