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Aoyon Ashraf

Managing Editor, Breaking News

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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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.

Mar 16, 2023

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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.

Mar 16, 2023

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.

Mar 14, 2023

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)

Finance

Silicon Valley Bank's Parent Looking at Strategic Alternatives

SVB Financial Group appointed a restructuring committee for its venture capital and investment banking arm.

Mar 13, 2023

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital Terminates Credit Facility With Crypto Bank Silvergate

The miner reduced its debt by $50 million and freed up about $75 million worth of bitcoin that was held as collateral.

Mar 8, 2023

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital Sold Almost All Bitcoin Mined in February

It's the second consecutive monthly sale for the company, which before 2023 hadn't sold any of its holdings.

Mar 2, 2023

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Finance

Investment Firm Ninepoint Proposes Switching Bitcoin ETF Strategy After Falling 45% in a Year

The fund will now seek to invest mainly in equity and equity-related securities of companies with exposure to Web3, blockchain and the digital asset-enabled internet.

Mar 2, 2023

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Finance

Crypto Bank Silvergate Uncertainties May Put TradFi Heavy Hitters' Stakes in Jeopardy

Silvergate Capital shares have tumbled 29% in after-hours trading on Wednesday as the crypto-friendly lender raised a “going concern” issue in a regulatory filing.

Mar 1, 2023

Higher interest rates and energy shortages have triggered concerns over a potential global recession (Getty Images)

Technology

Chainlink Launches Platform to Help Web2 Connect With Smart Contracts

The beta version of Chainlink Functions is now live on the Ethereum Sepolia and Polygon Mumbai test networks.

Mar 1, 2023

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov (Chainlink)

Finance

Blockchain Protocol Algorand Hires Its First CFO

The new finance chief has several years of crypto and TradFi experience.

Mar 1, 2023

Algorand CFO Matthew Commons (Algorand Inc.)
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