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Aoyon Ashraf

Managing Editor, Breaking News

Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's Head of Americas. 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 ADA, SOL, ATOM and some other altcoins that are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Finance

Coinbase Ventures' Strategic Investment Sends Rocket Pool Token Surging

The investment branch announced today the purchase of an undisclosed amount of Rocket Pool’s native token RPL, which has jumped more than 9% in the past 24 hours.

Aug 10, 2023

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (CoinDesk)

Finance

SEC Likely to Approve Several Spot ETFs, Sparking Next Bitcoin Rally: Matrixport

A report from the firm cited how big Grayscale Bitcoin Trust was at its peak.

Aug 10, 2023

Bitcoin's price will go up if the SEC approves spot bitcoin ETFs, Matrixport said. (Unsplash)

Policy

SEC Will Appeal XRP Ruling in Case Against Ripple

A federal judge ruled that while Ripple's direct sales of XRP to institutional investors violated securities law, its programmatic sales to retail investors through exchanges did not.

Aug 9, 2023

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Scott Moore/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Animated Series Futurama Takes Characters to 'Doge City,' Mocks Crypto Miners

In its latest episode, which aired on Aug. 7 on streaming platform Hulu, the characters attempt to make money by selling thallium, a toxic metal used to mine crypto in the shows, to crypto miners in “Doge City.”

Aug 9, 2023

Futurama/Flickr

Tech

Blockchain Security Firm Forta Upgrades Its Scam Detector to Battle Growing Crypto Fraud

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been lost to scams and exploits in July alone.

Aug 8, 2023

Scam alert (Getty)

Finance

Elon Musk’s X Seeks Data Partner to Build Trading Service on App: Semafor

Given the billionaire's affinity for digital assets, the offering could include crypto trading.

Aug 3, 2023

(Steve Jurvetson/Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

Michael Saylor Says Bitcoin ETFs Will Be the ‘Super Tanker’ for His MicroStrategy ‘Sports Car’

The software company now owns around $4.5 billion worth of bitcoin and is planning to buy more in the third quarter of this year.

Aug 3, 2023

MicroStrategy Executive Director Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

Finance

GameStop to Remove Crypto Wallets Citing 'Regulatory Uncertainty'

The company will remove its iOS and Chrome wallet extensions on Nov. 1.

Aug 1, 2023

(Walter Knerr/Pixabay)

Markets

KIN Token Surges Over 20% After Vote to Burn 70% of Supply Passes

The token climbed on news that about 7 trillion KIN tokens worth $156 million will be burned.

Jul 27, 2023

Ted Livingston speaks at Kin Ambassadors event in NYC April 2018. Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk.

Markets

Bitcoin May Reach $300K by 2028 Halving, Says $1.6B Asset Manager

The Morgan Creek Capital Management founder expects bitcoin to catch up to gold's valuation.

Jul 27, 2023

(WikiImages/Pixabay)
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